May 14, 2009

As many of you know, we decided to put a dock out for our boats to tie up to. The winds have been unbelievable the past few days and the pontoon has been swaying around. We went to Menard's and bought a 40 foot long premium floating dock kit. This dock took us two days to put together. Wow.....what a lot of nuts, washers and bolts! It was all worth the effort though. We think that it will be a great dock for us. Many thanks to all of the neighbors and our son in law for helping us to get this put into the water!!!!

Here's a view of our new dock. What an improvement it has made for us to access the boats! It was quite the chore to get it into the water. Now that it is in, it should be easy to remove in the winter by just pulling each section up onto the shore. We will see when winter comes around again just how easy it will be. Here's a shot of the dock from our neighbors property. You can see how it connects up to our deck and boardwalk on shore.

This is a shot of our lilacs in our backyard at home. Wouldn't these look great at the lake? I have a few bushes already started up there. In maybe 20 years, we will have more bushes full of lilacs up to the lake. LOL

This is another shot of our backyard showing some of the flowering trees and shrubs. This Spring has been perfect for the flowering items in our yard. It smells like a perfume factory back there!

One last shot of our dock with the two boats tied up to it. We've had to get rid of our paddle boat. It was over 20 years old and didn't make it through the winter. Not sure if we will replace it or not just yet. We just bought two kayaks this Spring, so they might be all that we need for now to enjoy the lake.

Have a WONDERFUL day everyone!