Out at the lake

I don't get out here too often.
I bush hog it once, sometimes twice a year. There's about 2 acres left I can mow. Was maybe 3 acres when I bought it in 1991. The forest will ultimately take it all back but I Have made an effort to keep some open.
Photo shows the corner of the property where the river enters the lake.
It's all bog, swamp and water here.
About 6 of the 17 acres you can walk on.
Except when we were kids with our cousins and found the hardest places to cross by walking slogging and swimming. Even walked a couple of miles to get to a harder bog to cross.
About 1 acre here is still tillable.
You can't see it in the picture but about a 10' dia chunk of bog broke off and is floating out in the lake.
Sometimes they were big enough for a few of us to get on and push around with poles. Go out at night and pole it into someone else's area of the lake and then swim home. Ha!
I heard the Bittern tonight. They make an unusual sound. He's a small butternut colored crane that likes drier swamps more than open water.
The Army Corps of Engineers put a series of small dams on this river to help hold back the Missippi. Back in the day.
It eroded and degraded this lake. The dam is at the farthest away part of the picture. Took about 1 1/2 acres from my grand dad by raising the water level a foot. Some of it fell into the lake too.
Still nice out here though.
Sun's gone now but the internet is still up. Sitting in my pickup out here writing this. Came up alone this time to plant some plots.
The loon just started calling. They start talking almost at complete darkness.
About 9:20 now. Some trumpeter swans must have flown in cause the lake just got real noisy. They're just passing through. Going farther north and won't stay and nest like the bittern and the loon.
Time to drive back to the other side of the property where the camper is.
It was nice - as usual - here tonight.
Both on the boards and at the lake.

How big is the lake

What a fabulous place to spend time - now... and as a child.

I always loved the lake sounds: loons, fish spashing, and waves lapping at the shore.

I am from Iowa, only lakes here are man made.

If only MN had a summer longer than 7 days.......

LOL! True.

nice story,,thanks!!

Thanks Dog for the post--We built our pond the Fall of 2013 and I know what you are saying--I take the Gator, a brew and go out to ours and you sit there and forget about the crap in the outside world.--Peaceful---Tee

My tractor pull buddy--Puddin and his lovely Wife Mary Jane who came to see us last Summer from Tenn.---Tee

But Officer, It's the 4th of July. What do you mean I have to take a mandatory winter driving course before entering Minesooota? Yes, that's right sir. Minnesooota Highway Regulation 00596. You are required to take a mandatory winter driving course before driving in Minesooota. Please drive over to where Lt Marcia Peterson of the Minnesooota State Patrol is standing, right behind those snow plows, and she will conduct the course. It only takes about an hour. Welcome to Minnesooota.

But Officer, It's the 4th of July. What do you mean I have to take a mandatory winter driving course before entering Minesooota? Yes, that's right sir. Minnesooota Highway Regulation 696969. You are required to take a mandatory winter driving course before driving in Minesooota. Please drive over to where Lt Marcia Peterson of the Minnesooota State Patrol is standing, right behind those snow plows, and she will conduct the course. It only takes about an hour. Welcome to Minnesooota.

Talked myself out of a ticket one time from the Washington State U campus police. I was caterwauling around in an empty parking lot in the snow, and convinced them that I was from "the coast" (western Washington) where we have very little snow, so was getting the feel of how my car felt when starting to slide, figuring out how to correct it, etc. He kind of smiled and said, "Well, lesson's over, time to go home".

About 525 acres.

Nice sized, enjoy

I've always wanted a place on a lake, where I could have a little dock and take my coffee out in the morning and do a little fishing. But wife will need the horse place we have until she is about 90, and I'll be long gone by then.