High Water mark….10/17
Living on a body of water you get to notice the little things. No this is not Waldon’s Pond just a small lake in northern Wisconsin. This year and last were dry, very dry as for the lack of Vermouth. Then add to this the lack of a proper snow cover for seven straight winters and this pond level has continued to head south.

So somewhere in this world there is 30" of water that does not belong. We are not alone in this for someone's swimming pool is overloaded or the Coke Company has been bottling way too much canned water.

The after effect of this is that if you were to walk the shore line on most bodies of water up here your eyes would open wide. The shorelines here are now twice their size. There are beaches everywhere. Who needs sand box? There are tons of sands; it’s beginning to look like the great northern desert.

If you look landward from the extended shore you can see something high above the old shore line. It’s what the County Zoning Department calls the high water line. These lines were established by the original USGS, the government map makers. They are long gone by not what they drew in the sand.

Right after the last glacial period they set the bounds and regulations as to the dwelling set back that our pioneer’s could build their lodges from lily ponds. They wrote their statues in granite and wooo to those that stepped over their line.
In today’s paper world, just try and get a building permit without two legal councils, a wad of cash, and a brother-in-law on the county board.