Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Just a paddling away!

April 16th and it got up to 91 degrees today!!  I know it's not going to last.  I know from 54 years of experience, but I'll take it.  Since we knew it was going to be hot we got our walk in early.  Almost 4 miles to get us going. 

Around 1:00 with a mostly sunny sky we put the kayaks in the back of my car and headed to the lake.  The water's freezing...felt a bit like Maine!  It was tricky to get in without getting my feet too wet, but I did it.  Within seconds I could feel any last bit of stress leave me.  Something magical happens while paddling along on the lake...wish I could bottle it.  I can't say the views are at their best right now, but you can see the trees budding and some even flowering.  In my excitement I went full steam ahead and got tired pretty quickly.  Need to retrain my paddling muscles.  After the work comes the float!

Below is the view of Mt Greylock.

The new house is pretty close to done, but we hear they still don't have electricity. 
Maybe they want to live like you and Brian, Molls;-)
Although this picture doesn't show it, there were a lot of people fishing in the cove today. 
I don't think the resident large bird is around yet,
we're not sure exactly what he is but he's a big, graceful guy. 
He probably will come back with all the snowbirds! 
And Brian...we stayed in the boat;-)!

We had a great day today.  Back to work tomorrow after a mini-vacation of 4 days.

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