The Weekend Before Memorial Day Weekend

May 18th through 20th, 2012

Lake Lucerne
The weekend was sunny, windy and warm. We were saddened to find that vandals had replaced the bar's lawn with a hay field. There was much mowing.
Lake Lucerne
It's that time of year again. There was a friendly guy at the landing with a dog and a giant puppy checking boats for aliens. He helped us launch too.
Lake Lucerne
On the way back to the north end of the lake we crossed paths with a big dead pike. The local eagles will be pleased.
Lake Lucerne
The North end of Lake Lucerne was very choppy on both Saturday and Sunday. Piers that were thought to be high enough off the water were found to not be. There were soakers.
Lake Lucerne
Trillium season is just past peak. There are plenty of white ones but a few withering purple ones can be found in almost every patch.
Lake Lucerne
New tee markers at the Nicolet Country Club are very nice but the new yard markers are wonderful. The old flat stone markers (on the right) were hard to see from the fairway edges and impossible to view from the rough. Yea!
Lake Lucerne
Sixty four degrees Fahrenheit on May 19th. Still cool, but for mid-May that could be some sort of record for Lake Lucerne's temperature. We got half an inch of rain late Sunday afternoon. I was hoping for more. The lake seems to be holding its level for now. With the hydrological drought over (the ground water is back baby!), it will be interesting and welcoming to see if the springs push the lake back to close to normal. If the lake rises as fast as the bar's lawn, it'll be flooding cabins on the shore by July.


-Nemo's hating on hay.