Fish & Fowl

I had to post one last fish picture for the season.   This was the last nice walleye Jim caught before we pulled the boat out of the water.  I have been fishing off of the dock at the resort when its nice which hasn't been very often lately.  Its been cold, rainy, windy and sleeting off and on for the last several days.   We still have guests going out fishing in all kinds of nasty weather. 

We have this one very pretty Goldeneye duck hanging around our dock.  This duck isn't interested in eating bread like the mallards that hung around most of the summer.  We had left over bird seed from making pine cone bird feeders with the kids so we fed the ducks the seed.  We had everyone feeding the ducks -- adults and kids alike enjoyed it. 

We are pretty much packed up and ready to head out.  Can't wait!

Fog on the Water

The lake water is cooling off fast but the air temp has been dropping faster.  The fog takes awhile to lift in the mornings.  The fishermen pace the dock until they can see far enough to go out fishing.

One of our workamper couples has left and we are glad we will be leaving in two weeks because the cold is coming.  By Tuesday its supposed to only get in thelow 50's with low 30's at night and a very hard freeze coming tomorrow night.  There go all the flowers -- oh well the deer were eating all of the flowers anyway.  We were spraying the flowers with "deer stop" but it wasn't really working. 

We have had the boat winterized and plan to store it up here since we are coming back to work here one more summer.  It will be nice traveling with just the 5th wheel.   

Fall Colors

Fall colors pretty much happened overnight up here.   The colors along the gravel road from the resort out to the blacktop are beautiful.  Looking at the colors along the shoreline from out in the boat is breathtaking.  Its been dry and cool at night so the leaves turned color overnight and then started to fall.  It won't take long and it will be over.  We don't mind though because we can usually follow fall colors as they happen while heading south.  We have been starting to get the resort ready to shut down.  The big water towers that the kids play on came out of the water.  Otherwise, if they stay in too long the muskrats start chewing on the cords holding them in place in the water. 

We are taking our boat out of the water and having it winterized.  We plan to store it up here for the winter.  We can use one of the resort boats if we want to get out on the water.  It will be vey nice traveling south without the boat.    We hope to check out the Black Hills , Wyoming, Utah and then Arizona. 

Orange

The leaves are turning quickly here.  It's been on the dry side so that is causing fall colors to hit a little early.  We were fishing at dawn and it was a brilliant orange sunrise.  Usually if its --- red sky in the morning -- sailor take warning --- and sure enough thunder and lightening came in.  We got off the lake just in time to avoid the lightening. 

The resort business is starting to taper off.  We have one more full house next week and then it will be getting pretty quiet.  It will then be time to start closing down and pulling the docks out of the water.  We are starting to get "road itch".  We are "itching to hit the road" and head south.