Out On The Lake

rusty6 · Jun 11, 2017

I've posted various views, overhead and beside our sloughs recently so here is a new angle from right out on the water today. Using my 7 foot "selfie stick" I got a lot of video and stills that I need to edit into a watchable version. Its hard to believe I used to grow crops here.

Gene Dotson · Jun 12, 2017

Another nice picture Ralph. I admire your resourcefulness.

farmerjohn · Jun 12, 2017

".....used to grow crops here...". What's the story behind that?

Steamboat · Jun 12, 2017

If pic taken recently, why no leaves on the trees?

rusty6 · Jun 12, 2017

(quoted from post at 06:30:29 06/12/17) If pic taken recently, why no leaves on the trees?

That one is easy. Did I not post a pic of these little predators a few days ago? I may have put it elsewhere but we have about the worst infestation of tent caterpillars that I can ever recall. They love poplar leaves. Also willow and a few others. They don't touch maples and carragannas though.
Take a look at the front wheel of my truck. Thank goodness they don't eat rubber tires!

rusty6 · Jun 12, 2017

(quoted from post at 03:58:58 06/12/17) ".....used to grow crops here...". What's the story behind that?

I have been complaining at length over the past 7 years about the crazy rainfall we have been getting. Like nothing I have ever seen in my life. Working in the mud and driving around sloughs has become "normal" here although this spring is the first time in years that things are looking almost dry. A body of water like the one in my photo is going to take years to go down to where it is workable. Between flooding and just plain inaccessibility we have lost about half the cultivated acres on one of those quarters where we were rowing the boat yesterday.
The water will start to run away when it gets high enough to overflow to the next sloughs across the road, and eventually into the creek. But by the time it is that high, many acres are submerged.

Bruce from Can. · Jun 12, 2017

Oh yes , the "Arid Prairie ". That is not what comes to mind when I hear of a Prairie Schooner . My cousin has a Quarter that they haven't been on since 2008 , hill in the middle , and water all around , too deep to cross. They look across the water at the Deer pasture, and like you remember when it was good crop land .

Cmore · Jun 12, 2017

Glad to see all 6 have on life jackets.
Six in that little bathtub looking thing is just asking for trouble!!
Can they swim??
Cmore

Texasmark1 · Jun 12, 2017

"Out on the Lake"......a quotation I used most of my adult life. Didn't matter which lake or any of that it was always as posted. Sometimes I added variety to it by omitting the word "the" and adding the name of it. For a lotta years it was a Sunday's afternoon event. Family loved it.

rusty6 · Jun 12, 2017

(quoted from post at 16:01:54 06/12/17) Glad to see all 6 have on life jackets.
Six in that little bathtub looking thing is just asking for trouble!!
Can they swim??
Cmore

Not this guy. But I can assure you it was very stable and secure feeling for my first time out. Its pretty near flat bottom and 14 feet long so it would take a pretty stormy sea to tip that one.

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