Another Glorious Day at the Lake

Getting coordinated

A Pretty Good Start

If the rest of the year goes anything like January this will be a really great year.  We've been so busy, and have accomplished so much!  The weather has been less than accommodating ranging from monsoon to freezing rain with a few astoundingly beautiful days interspersed.  But we haven't let that get in our way this year.

We managed a serious deep clean on the house and, with the help of a couple of new bookshelves, have organized no only all of the books that were already in the house, but also several boxes of books that have been in one shed or another for the entire time we've lived in Tennessee.  The living room is looking more and more library like all the time!

Yak Attack!

When the Middle Tennessee monsoons ended, we started chomping at the bit for the first warm day to come.  Yesterday, when it was only in the forties, we did laundry so that we could have the warmest day of the week (today, 50s) to get out in the Kayaks.  The general consensus  in the morning was to try, for the first time, our own creek, Salt Lick Creek.  This was uncharted territory, with many potential challenges.  There may be trees across creating strainers or requiring portages, or, if the water wasn't high enough we might have needed to get in and out of the boats fifty times to get past shallow riffles.  As it turned out, there were few major challenges, only one portage, and the water was high enough to be really fun!  Unfortunately, the funnest water was where the photographer (Micah) needed to focus on paddling, but here is a lovely view of a perfectly lovely day!