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Mar. 1st, 2007 12:30 pmThis morning found an otter playing in the shallows near the barge, and then later popping up on to the small workshop dock of my neighbor.
The lake is getting higher again. That's something I really didn't understand before I moved out here, how the level of the lake changes by a foot or two over the course of the year. Here it is obvious -- the dock itself floats, while the ramp to it is fixed. There is a step that is taken away as the lake gets higher, and put back in place later on... and sometimes the step between it and the ramp is very short, and sometimes it is quite tall indeed. I haul my bike over it a couple of times a day, so it stays in my mind.
We have a new neighbor. His company apparently makes housebarges, and he has now made one for himself -- three stories, with a little tower on top, half again as wide as the other barges, I think, mostly a blueish green, with rust trim and detailing in copper. I need to ask him how much such a thing would run -- I may well come back here when I'm done with school, and while I don't need quite that degree of splendor, I've thought I might want to buy my own place, and perhaps something a bit larger than the barge. (Though that depends on many things. For me alone the barge works nicely, but a little more space wouldn't hurt me, and I'd need it were I to live with anyone else.)
My chives are well up, and the daffodils are blooming. Birds are becoming more numerous. I must try to make it to upper campus and see how the cherry blossoms are doing.
The lake is getting higher again. That's something I really didn't understand before I moved out here, how the level of the lake changes by a foot or two over the course of the year. Here it is obvious -- the dock itself floats, while the ramp to it is fixed. There is a step that is taken away as the lake gets higher, and put back in place later on... and sometimes the step between it and the ramp is very short, and sometimes it is quite tall indeed. I haul my bike over it a couple of times a day, so it stays in my mind.
We have a new neighbor. His company apparently makes housebarges, and he has now made one for himself -- three stories, with a little tower on top, half again as wide as the other barges, I think, mostly a blueish green, with rust trim and detailing in copper. I need to ask him how much such a thing would run -- I may well come back here when I'm done with school, and while I don't need quite that degree of splendor, I've thought I might want to buy my own place, and perhaps something a bit larger than the barge. (Though that depends on many things. For me alone the barge works nicely, but a little more space wouldn't hurt me, and I'd need it were I to live with anyone else.)
My chives are well up, and the daffodils are blooming. Birds are becoming more numerous. I must try to make it to upper campus and see how the cherry blossoms are doing.
