Catching up

We've had a busy week of activities here at camp as the weather is now cooperating for the most part.  Just Tuesday, however, we had another almost full day of rain!  We actually had to turn the heater back on during the morning hours yesterday (after several days of near 100 degree temps)!  The news people said it was only the fourth or fifth time we have had rain this late in June since they started keeping records.

Anyway, enough on the weather rant.  We're back into the 90's today and expected to reach over 100 by the 4th of July.  The park is filling up early so it should be an exciting, busy weekend!  Here is a photo of Diana and I in the work truck on our way to clean camp sites. Note the custom headliner in the truck... It's seen better days, but it runs great...

During our down time we like to get on the lake as often as we can as it's beautiful out there!  Here we are at 6 am heading up the river arm of the reservoir to find some fish.  There are so many boats on this lake every day that we try to plan our trips for early in the day, midweek.  We only saw one other boat on the water during this trip.

Here I am steering. The water was perfectly flat for us...

And here's the bounty for all our hard work.  We caught several fish during the trip and decided to keep and eat these two, though normally we catch and release. They are both smallmouth bass and measured between 13-15" each.  We filleted them, breaded them and cooked them in cast iron and they were delicious.

We also have the opportunity to take the camp canoes out and we recently made our maiden voyage.  We wish we had brought our canoe with us, but I still have to figure out how to pack it without making it a major production.  In the mean time, these canoes give us the opportunity to practice our paddling.  Here we are heading out of our harbor headed to the sand bar located about 1/2 mile away near a creek enterance.

We landed at the sand bar and walked around for a bit to explore before heading home.

Walking Sadie has become an impotant part of each day.  She has A LOT of energy and needs to have an outlet or she gets bored.  When our loop is empty we spend a lot of time throwing her Frisbee and letting her chase it.  When the loop is full, we find other ways to entertain her.  She goes almost everywhere with us, though she can stay at the trailer alone for a few hours if need be.  Here we are during one of our walks as we came across Isabel and her friend down by the boat docks.

  

Sadie has also adapted very nicely to our new relaxed lifestyle and when she is not running about, she has learned how to stop and smell the roses.  Here are just a few of her favorite ways to relax...

Occasionally, she even lets us sit in the chair...

And Finally, wildflowers.  We'll never get them all on here unless we post more than one at a time, so here are  a few this time...  Let us know if you know any of their names.