More Rain

Here are the pictures of what we arrived to find. This is basically the same as the photo in the earlier post, notice that in the earlier post the ramp to the boat had a good decline, now it is almost flat. In the first photo the water was high now it is five feet higher.



This photo is looking across the way at the next marine. Everything beyond and to the left of the nearest power poll is where the boaters normally park their cars. The salesman that sold us the boat lives aboard one of the boats, he says he is getting tired of having to get ashore to his car on a wave runner, especially when you forget something and have to go back.














We continue to make good progress in getting the boat organized, but the weather has not been very helpful. It is now Sunday evening (Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers) and the sun finally came out and the wind is beginning to calm down. Last night a front moved in with heavy rain all night and wind 30 to 35 gusting 45 and above. The rain stopped but the wind continued most of the day today. Driving into town this morning there where large white caps in the corn fields (not good).
The river was going down and forecast to be five feet lower next week, now the forecast is for very little change in the next week. It continues to flow by here at over 2 million gallons per second. I know that all our friends at White Bear would love to have 10 or 15 minutes of that water to help with the low lake level.
Tomorrow is forecast to be 70+ and sunny, so we can finish some of the outside projects that are left. There is an interesting population of birds we don’t usually see that is keeping Diana happy taking pictures. This heron likes to perch on a piece of drift wood, hung up right beside our dock. He is very skittish and takes flight at the first sign of movement.


Our departure for Kentucky is on hold until the water goes down but we hope to do some boating here in the local area if we get some nicer weather.

The internet connection I have been using is down tonight so this won’t get posted until sometime Monday.