Lake Accotink is a 55-acre lake located in Accotink Park in Springfield, Virginia. Fairfax County is in the process of repairing a concrete dam there, so the lake has been temporarily drained. Led astray by W and Lucy (apparently we weren’t supposed to be doing what we were doing, but I didn’t see the STAY OFF sign), I attempted to follow them across a part of the lake, which was so dry it was cracked. Anyway, they made it across fine. Halfway, I sank like a rock, all the way up to my knees. A quick calculation of height, weight, girth, etc., was no help in figuring out what the hell happened (I sank…W didn’t). I started whining until they came back to pull me out (luckily an old board nearby helped in the hoist), and I then slid to and fro in my sandals all the way back to the dock where I rinsed my feet in a foot of stagnant, 100-plus-degree swamp water.

Wow, that was fun. When do we go back?