A Walk on the Dock....

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Opening Day of the 2012 Fishing Season

Father and son Greg and Darin Reinke show off their catches on opening day. If I knew anything about fish I could probably tell you what they caught and how much they weighed,but maybe some of you fishermen can help me out. I do know that the frog in the bottom photo is a tree frog though.

ICE OUT TIME...

We have certainly seen some strange weather this winter and spring and it is still managing to baffle us. It is hard to know what to keep in your closet and what to put away. For now I'm going to just leave things as they are since last Saturday we had a beautiful Spring day of 70 degrees and yesterday we had snow and wind with a temp that started out in the morning at 41 then rose to 54 and then promptly fell 20 degrees in the course of a couple hours. At least today has started out sunny with the promise of maybe 50. But that frost did a little damage to some plants like the Elderberry and my Daffodils that were just starting to bloom. The lake went out the earliest I have have ever seen in the almost 34 years that I have been here. It went out on March 18 at 2:18 pm. I'm not sure what this will do for the Ice Out Contest, and we'll probably have to decide at the next Board meeting so don't get your hopes up if you sent your guess in before the actual due date. Just when you think you have all the bases covered, Mother Nature likes to mess with you.

Snow Storm continued....

I found out today that unless you want to wade through the thigh high snow it was pretty hard to get a good photo to show exactly how much snow we have. The pictures below were taken from our driveway once the plow came through. At least you can see the amount of snow on the roof and the woodpile and behind  it. And of course we had to shovel a path for our new little puppy Emmet. His nose comes just above some of the areas, otherwise it's over his head. That doesn't seem to stop him from climbing right in though. I did take a ride into town and N. Shore Dr. is a bit slimmer than it used to be. At least you don't have to worry about going into the ditch since the the piles of snow are so high in most areas they will definitely keep you out!  Again if you have any photos please send them and I will try to venture out over the weekend to see if I can capture more.

Big Leap Day Storm

Winter finally came in with a huge blast. We had over 18" and while it's winding down , it is still snowing. Needless to say most places were closed today. There were some power outages, but luckily none at my house. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have some photos to post, but if you have some you'd like to share then send them to me at nlight@charter.net  and I'll post them. The weatherman said we had 30"on the ground now! More to come....news that is, hopefully not more snow.

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Winter Storm Warning

Today we have winter storm warnings out but only for about 2-4 inches (not much of a storm in my book) . The photos are from the first snowfall we had, apparently that was more of a storm - 9inches! It melted quickly though. The ice has skimmed over, with some bare spots, but next weeks weather is for the low 20's so I think winter will be here to stay. Our Christmas Party was cancelled this year, due to low reservations. If you have any canned goods or monetary donations for the Food Pantry, you can drop them at Tom and Susan Welch's house on Circle Drive before Thursday and Susan will deliver them.

There are some possibilites on the horizen for  our Clean Boats Clean Waters program which I hope to keep you posted on. Part of the good news is that the Board voted to have the AIS postion a permanent one as the current term was to end shortly. So that will be good news for all the lakes. Michelle does a good job and hopefully she will be able to continue in that position.  Tom Welch had told me earlier that by the end of July our volunteers had put in 87 hours and checked in 129 boats. And that was just for the first half of the season. Stay warm.