It’s our Point, it keeps growing…

We live on a medium to small 170 acre lake. From the air it looks like a figure eight. When you think about it from the ground as well. It’s a natural drainage basin lake. There is no stream into or out of it and only one small spring which tries to maintain the water level. Our place is on a point where the two lobes come together. It was an eight iron shot across to the other point. Now it’s a pitching wedge.

To say we haven’t had our normal amount of spring rains and winter snows for the last six years is putting it mildly. The lake level is down 28 to 30" and that water is someplace else. But where?

The change in weather patterns has effected something else. A short walk in the woods with your eye wide open shows that stress on many of the trees. It’s a Brown Out! This shortage of annual moisture has had only one positive, it’s helped the local boat propeller business, it’s booming.

Just yesterday I went for a short spin on the lake and had to row home. I thought I knew every rock in our pond. Someone keeps moving boulders around our lake... got to go work on my tan and rake our ever increasing lake side beach.