Ready for More

I love it when there is activity on the lake. With the 4th of July weekend coming soon, I'm sure there will be much more and that is a good thing! My neighbors took a boat ride the other evening. There are about 4 or 5 vessels here like this one. They are all battery-run. Quiet.

Last evening my grandson and his partner were able to launch the old boat and the battery has been charging since early Spring so I knew they would have a nice trip out. They caught some bass (threw them back as is the current 'rule' here) and she even caught one that they have never hooked before — a Rock Bass. They are small. For more information please click on the link below.

Rock Bass Info.

I took my buggy to a yard sale at the neighboring lake and bought this table. The legs fold under for storage! The seller was accommodating by delivering it later that day. It will be really nice on the porch when we picnic and I can also put my feet up when I sit on the swing and read! $10.00 well spent.

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Seasonal Country Ways

On the trip out to my brother's project place on Thursday, we stopped so I could take pictures of egg sales at our favorite produce farm. It is closed (well almost) for the winter.  My brother keeps me in eggs and I didn't need more, but want to share how this store is specially open with eggs for sale. Notice the plastic bags are even supplied, and the eggs are kept cool. Honor system in action here.  There was a place I found on an old country road a couple of years ago that didn't even have their cash box nailed down, but times have changed.

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The chickens below live 12 miles down the road from the produce stand at my brother's project place and they lay wonderful brown eggs too. My brother has 6 more hens but they were out and about scratching in the grass when I went into the coop to see who was home.

                                

YESTERDAY a fellow from up the road took advantage of the lake's ice being all gone (it melted clean away on March 1) and launched his rowboat to go for a ride. Down at our end of the lake, I saw him dragging it up to the bank by the dam and went out to ask him if he'd like to come in and warm up! He told me that after he took it out the battery went dead and he couldn't oar against the strong wind to get back to the other end where he lives. He said no problem and he'd just jog on home and get his truck and hitch up the trailer and bring his boat back that way. 

Well TODAY the ice has started to return!