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	October 21st through 27th, 2024

At the start of last week, there was a little color left in the trees. Walking in some areas became really, really crunchy in an autumnal, rake beckoning way after mid-week. The trees colorful state did not make the weekend.

On Tuesday, aLf connected us with a DNR engineer that wanted to get a survey of "The Nail" to more accurately monitor the <a href='/LakeLevel/LL2.html' class ='defaultlink2' target='_blank'>lake level</a> for better management of the boat landing. We left some subtle clues to aid the survey team in finding the artifact.

The lake got a little bit of rain last week.

When the rain stopped and the sky cleared, we measured about a pittance and a half. We need more.

During a walk to Knott Lane, we were startled by an eagle that launched itself into the air from a basswood not more than 20 feet from the road.

It perched in a white pine for a few minutes. Then flew off to fish the west shore of Lucerne.

Pumpkins carved just over a week ago are starting to show signs of age.

They still look pretty good at night.

The lake level continues to fall. We had no small amount of difficulty getting the pontoon boat off the lift before pulling it.

Lucerne is still deep enough to easily get boats on trailers and out of the water despite the landing's pierlessness.

It's only an ice-in, bottle rocket war, and ice-out away from being back in and touring up the shoreline.

The last of the lifts also found their way to the shore.

It's a little sad to not have a boat in when the lake grows flat, but not too sad. The lake temperature is around 55°F.

To keep one of the most ignored stop signs in all of Forest County above the snow line this winter, it was put on a new, much taller post last week.

As noted in the first slide, there were plenty of leaves in the trees at the start of the week.

By the weekend, the remaining color was in big, crunchy piles on the forest floor.

The pumpkins are rotting, the lake is getting cold, and the hills are gray. The time of between pumpkin carving and ice-in is best observed from the warm confines of a cabin or Florida. Next week is the last before standard time adds an hour of sleep and steals an hour of late day golf from us. The extra hour of sleep will help drive the limp from our legs and the pontoon pulling pain from our backs. Less golf near sunset will keep the evening profanity down in the great outdoors. So all is good. A few might also use that extra hour to get the annual Lake Lucerne Ice-In Contest coded and posted.<br><br><br>-Nemo has one more wetsuited dive and bundled up round of golf left this year.

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