Record Setting Heat

The heat continued through Memorial Day weekend into Tuesday, setting records and as breezes died, the thermometer climbed into the 90s. It robbed us of energy as we just aren't used to it yet. After all, we were still in coats two weeks ago. It gave us a good excuse to relax in the shade on our deck.

We had a good laugh Sunday when we heard our new neighbor at the building site was sick and tired of the traffic ("Looky Loos") driving up little Finch Road to see how the construction was going.  She put her garbage bin and a chair in the middle of the drive to slow people down. We loved it! Thank you Angie!

Monday morning we heard the band warming up for the Clarklake Memorial Day Parade. We decided to kayak over to our new lake frontage and watch the parade from there. We met up with our current neighbor, Chuck who was driving his raft over to watch. The whole thing was quaint and sweet, especially when they play echoing taps in the cemetery!  The Junior High Band does an awesome job. Small town America at it's best!

It was a perfect spot to watch as the whole parade went right past us. Jean Shuberg was walking by and joined us. Angie came across the road and brought us each little Mini Bloody Marys in cute tiny red Solo cups. This is going to be one great neighborhood!

Tuesday morning as we were starting to plan projects for the day, Bob happened to look across the lake and could see a big truck pulling in Finch Rd. He ran to change and grab shoes and headed over. The truck was one of four loads of pea stone which goes around the footings for drainage. I drove over later. It was fun to watch it spray out evenly around the footings. The very nice driver that brought the stone enjoyed talking with Bob and ended up telling him about blowing out his knee. Bob could tell he was in pain and the hot, humid weather wasn't helping. Bob sent him on his way and took over the job of smoothing out the stone. Barney supervised.

Meanwhile, I happened to see on the Clarklake Neighborhood site that a lady had some old dock for sale. We were able to pick up six 3' x 10' sections very reasonably. So we now have a dock to put in and a place to put our raft (pontoon). It will be a while as other things take priority, but we are set for now!

We also spent some time hooking up a stake to our little smashed pine tree. At closer examination, it was bent and cracked but not broken. The new shoots were still looking healthy. So we propped it up and hauled water up from the lake to give it a good drink. We have to try.

Things are feeling homier and we were smiling at the end of the day.