Saturday, September 08, 2007
Labor Day Weekend
N and I were lucky. We got to Sidetrack for Labor Day weekend and I got to stay a couple extra days. The extra days helped with relaxation, but not with getting more work done.
Saturday's parade of pontoons was a bit disappointing. There were only four boats on the lake and only two of them were dressed up. Evidently, someone made a rule that previous prize winners couldn't win a second time, so the design pros didn't even bother. Another tradition in crisis.
The most colorful entry.
The militaristic entry: a tank on the water.
The mayor of the south end of Little Blake Lake and his entourage.
On the up side, the lake is less weedy than last year. I guess we're on the low side of the cycle for weed growth. There probably wasn't much agitation for weed control or cutting at the meeting after the puny parade.
The big news on land was the construction efforts to bury the electrical service on East Little Blake Lake Lane. The crews had parked some of their big tools.
They had also marked some of the hazards they faced while digging trenches for buried power lines.
They had gotten as far as Sidetrack in "stringing" power cables, and were ready to connect as soon as they had individual service lines up to cabins to our south.
It was a wonderful few days of relaxation and wonder. I didn't get a photo of the biggest wonder for me, but I found someone else's on the Internet. I was sitting in the lake room, reading and looking at the lake, when a pileated woodpecker landed on the deck railing about 10 feet from my nose. It only sat there for a few seconds, but these marvelous and shy birds have long been special totems to me. Seeing one up close and listening to it for much of the afternoon as it hung around the neighborhood were real treats.
The salvia are healthy and attracting hummingbirds. I hope the two tubs full of these red beauties make up for our not getting the hummingbird feeder hung up this summer.
Recent rains have finally brought out the local fungus. Before the LSU mowers showed up on Tuesday, they made the lawn look like it was littered with abandoned yellow golf balls.
And I noticed a bit of the fiction section of the Sidetrack library, and marveled at the selection of good books.
Until next week.
Saturday's parade of pontoons was a bit disappointing. There were only four boats on the lake and only two of them were dressed up. Evidently, someone made a rule that previous prize winners couldn't win a second time, so the design pros didn't even bother. Another tradition in crisis.
The most colorful entry.
The militaristic entry: a tank on the water.
The mayor of the south end of Little Blake Lake and his entourage.
On the up side, the lake is less weedy than last year. I guess we're on the low side of the cycle for weed growth. There probably wasn't much agitation for weed control or cutting at the meeting after the puny parade.
The big news on land was the construction efforts to bury the electrical service on East Little Blake Lake Lane. The crews had parked some of their big tools.
They had also marked some of the hazards they faced while digging trenches for buried power lines.
They had gotten as far as Sidetrack in "stringing" power cables, and were ready to connect as soon as they had individual service lines up to cabins to our south.
It was a wonderful few days of relaxation and wonder. I didn't get a photo of the biggest wonder for me, but I found someone else's on the Internet. I was sitting in the lake room, reading and looking at the lake, when a pileated woodpecker landed on the deck railing about 10 feet from my nose. It only sat there for a few seconds, but these marvelous and shy birds have long been special totems to me. Seeing one up close and listening to it for much of the afternoon as it hung around the neighborhood were real treats.
The salvia are healthy and attracting hummingbirds. I hope the two tubs full of these red beauties make up for our not getting the hummingbird feeder hung up this summer.
Recent rains have finally brought out the local fungus. Before the LSU mowers showed up on Tuesday, they made the lawn look like it was littered with abandoned yellow golf balls.
And I noticed a bit of the fiction section of the Sidetrack library, and marveled at the selection of good books.
Until next week.
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You really paint a great picture of cabin life as it "used" to be, before the jet skis and mastercraft ski boats, and the cabin gentrification that's starting to plague Big Blake Lake.
You're motivating me to spend more time up at the lake this fall.. We will be up for Saturdays Fall Festival in Amery.
I like the library. I think we'll have to build a new bookcase for ours.
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You're motivating me to spend more time up at the lake this fall.. We will be up for Saturdays Fall Festival in Amery.
I like the library. I think we'll have to build a new bookcase for ours.
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