The weather has not been great on the weekends. It's been unseasonable cool, and it seems like we've had cloudy, misty, off-and-on showers every weekend.
Three weekends ago we applied Copper Sulfate to the dock area. Linda had come down with a really bad case of swimmer's itch when she was visiting, and after some online research we discovered it's from snails. We got a permit from the DNR and bought some chemical, and hopefully cured that problem for awhile. The treatment doesn't last forever and I'm sure we'll have to do it again next spring, but we feel a little more comfortable having people swim by the dock now. We couldn't go in the water that weekend, so it was a short one for us.
I think the next weekend was cloudy, cool and rainy too. We didn't stay long that weekend either. The crows woke me up one morning. They were squawking and yelling at something. I thought it might be some animal in the lawn outside our bedroom window so I got up. It was an eagle sitting in a tree eating a fish. The crows wanted some of that food!
We had our new granddaughter Audrey and her parents up last weekend. Again, the weather wasn't great so we didn't spend a lot of time outside, but we had fun touring Aitkin and playing games with Andrew and Erin.
I was able to mow the lawn in between the passing showers. It never rained hard, just a spit here and there. Saturday night was clear and calm so we built a fire in the fire pit, but it was cloudy and cool again Sunday morning. We did a lot of work in the lake trying to clean up the beach and rake the weeds. It's a work in progress, but it's getting better. Dar swam for the first time this summer.
We're trying to have friends visit us in the coming weekends. There aren't many left before school starts. Hopefully we'll get some interest in having some late summer fun at the lake.
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