Michaela caught this guy scampering among the rocks by the campfire. He undoubtedly was snacking on some spilled kettle corn from our first campfire of the season!
Spring Planting
The gardens have been planted. The following photos include the new garden shed, as well as a couple shots of Mary and Teri planting some pots.
Spring Green
The resort is starting to “green up”. The garden is worked up and ready for planting, Adirondack chairs refinished, and the hydrobikes serviced. But the carpetball tables are still stacked and knuckleball is still wrapped in its winter garb. We are getting there!
First Leaves
We noticed our first leaves on Thursday. By today (Saturday), the shoreline is flush with a wash of light green. Nature has a way of balancing everything out and already we aren’t too far behind normal; a relief for our guests with early summer reservations.
Halfway to Ice-free
After blowing hard all day on Saturday, our lake is half open. The ice being pushed around was still solid and the photo below shows where the ice pack hit our shore. If you look carefully you can see the ice broke the cement boat ramp in half.
Ice-out Begins
My ice-out prediction was off a bit. With the wind being forecast tomorrow I am sure we will be ice-free by tomorrow night. Today a gentle breeze pushed the ice away from our shore, but tonight the wind direction switched. The power in that slow moving mass of ice is amazing. Check out what the ice did to our boat ramp, a 4-6 inch cement slab. The first photos in this album were taken this morning. The last 4 were taken about 7:30 pm. The last week of warm temps have been encouraging. The grass is starting to turn green and other indicators show that our spring is starting to catch up!
Hurry Up Spring!
We are doing what we can to help advance our spring. Here we are thawing out the shutoff valve to cabin 6. Another photo shows a snow bank we have pushed over and spread out so it melts faster. We have heard loons calling as they fly over nearly every morning this week. They must be finding open water somewhere; but certainly not Boot Lake.
