Just some of the things we get up to.
Nat was given two very nice tickets to the Antiques Roadshow in Knoxville. She deliberated over her stuff and we took four items. We stood in lines and met interesting people. Finally it was our turn. They don’t show our kind of results on the show. Not good. Still it was interesting and fun. Maybe next time.
Outdoor music in Dandridge
After lots of bad weather it was really nice to get a good night and have some outdoor music to boot. We drove up to Dandridge to meet up with some friends.
The lake levels are very high once again this year. I decided to try to get up to the golf course. We went up earlier in the year but only after lake levels had dropped a ways.
Starting up the channel it looks nice.
As I cruised up the channel I decided to hug the right side to get some shade. Doing so disturbed several blue herons and a white one that kept going up the way I was going. I disturbed him several times.
The humidity was definitely up. I know I was over places that normally don’t have water.
I’m past Bob and Kate’s place looking at the house next to them for sale. Some people were out there and I might appear in photos of the listing showing that you can kayak out back. Normally there’s not this much water here though they may have a channel they can use.
I’ve been sparing in my photos because my camera’s battery was low. I didn’t want to get to the bridge and not have a working camera. I’m almost there now. Some random weeds I’ll cross then a bunch of mint growing as well. I didn’t realize it until I went over it and broke it some.
Proof that I got to the bridge.
Getting through the trees between this point and the main channel was a very buggy experience. I should have remembered to take some shots coming back down. I was covered with spiders and various flying insects. I was being escorted by a pair of large dragonflies for a while looking for bugs I disturbed. I think they got their fill quickly behind me.
On the way back to my dock I encountered a cool looking piece of tree floating and pushed it up to our shore with my boat. It’ll make some good natural art when waters recede. I also spent a while unclogging my dock only to look out and see it covered today.
Our bird feeders are filled with nothing but black oil sunflower seeds. Turns out those seeds are very viable and the ones that the birds drop and lose grow quite well. This spring/summer has been incredibly wet. We’re closing in on 20″ above normal for the year.
We didn’t plant any of these.
It was just too pretty not to go out in the kayaks. Beautiful weather that day.
Nat makes this look good.
