| What goes through your mind as you look out the | | | | Get together with some RC boating friends, and |
| window, and watch the rain dropping through the | | | | stage a day filled with racing events. |
| sky? | | | | Put on a show for the neighborhood if you have a |
| I'm thinking remote control boats. | | | | convenient body of water. Hold a big radio |
| Yesterday we had sunshine here in Indianapolis, but | | | | control-racing contest, and hand out prizes or ribbons |
| for the two or three days before that, clouds | | | | for the fastest boats. Create competitions for |
| masked the sky, the grass and flowers got their first | | | | strangest design, most unique design, best productive |
| taste of moisture - yes, it rained. | | | | functionality, one for the RC boats that tow the |
| Spring is here, and for the next month or two | | | | heaviest weights. |
| expect the rain to saturate the weather forecast, | | | | Start a project with the working boat class of |
| more often than sunshine will make it glow. | | | | models. Create an island, and build a city on it, hauling |
| Too often we look at the spring rains with gloomy | | | | the supplies with tugboats and barges. Include a |
| feelings. After a cold, snowy winter held up inside, | | | | harbor where the big ships deliver cargo. Run |
| waiting for the opportunity to leave the house and | | | | ferryboats from your island to the main land. Station |
| feel the sun on our faces, we see the rain and think, | | | | fire and medical boats in strategic locations for |
| "Man, how much longer must I play couch potato | | | | emergency response. Patrol your harbor with police |
| before I can go outside and run free?" | | | | boats, and Coast Guard Cutters. |
| I use the rain as an excuse to play outside. With RC | | | | Maybe you just want to relax on the water. Get a |
| boats that's an easy attitude to latch onto, and | | | | luxury yacht to cruise to the islands. |
| motivation to get out of the house. | | | | Or take a leisurely sail. Those rains often partner with |
| All that rain leaves my drainage ditch full enough to | | | | heavier winds, and those winds are just right for a |
| float a race, or put a tugboat to work hauling tree | | | | remote control sailing yacht. Think of the slapping |
| limbs and branches that the winter winds felled to | | | | canvas as you glide along with the wind. No engine |
| the ground. | | | | noises, or exhaust fumes to disturb the peaceful |
| Those rains don't just get the flowers and grass | | | | setting. |
| started growing, and they don't just help bring the | | | | Just because it's raining out there doesn't mean you |
| trees out of their winter slumber. Rains bring the | | | | gotta stay indoors like a prisoner. |
| lakes and streams back to their summer levels, and | | | | Check out all those radio control aquatic vessels. You |
| give us a radio control boating playground. | | | | have plenty of choices to satisfy any type of RC |
| I mentioned floating a race. So many high-speed | | | | boating desire. |
| remote control racing boat models exist that your | | | | Escape the winter blues and spring rain depression. |
| biggest problem is deciding which model you want. | | | | Get yourself a remote control boat, and give |
| But once you make your choice, and get your boat, | | | | yourself a mood lift. Go out there, and have some |
| the fun starts. | | | | RC boating fun. |