American Greatness!

American greatness is still here...we are just confused by the debate. However, the core essentials are still here...hearty people, democracy, and opportunity.

 Nothing has changed...just confused...listen to the debates on the channels and listen to them all, liberal to conservative, read the blogs, talk to your friends... the basics are still here...just confused as we are increasingly polarized into "no move camps"!

Where is the voice of reason and reality? Where is that voice that transcends politics and agendas and strikes to the heart of the issues? This...disregarding personal agendas and speaks only to the core issues...and with realistic solutions?

We are still the nation that ALL want to come to...that should tell you something...and we CAN prevail!

Alligator Cove

The drought continues, the rains still just a memory, and the lake, our lake continues, to recede! We are now down over four feet!

The “dribbles” coming out of our sprinkler system alerted me to a potential problem! I went down to the dock and looked at the water pickup off the end of our dock…and sure enough it was sitting on top of the water…not good for the pump!

 I turned it off!

Today we ran the pickup line further out into the lake…another twenty feet!  The channel in our cove is usually about twelve feet in the middle (now down to eight feet!) so that “should “take care of the problem (until the lake is dry…”can that happen?”).

Now the point!

When we put the sprinkler system in the water was up four feet and the neighborhood alligator was “patrolling” the cove. Needless to say the installers were “wary!” They “watchfully” installed the pickup line off the dock.

Today they carefully “waded” out and made the necessary adjustment, a 90 ° elbow to a twenty foot extension to another 90° up to the inlet screen…cleaned out some of the valves and we were up and running.

Oh…and no alligator in site!

We are back to watering...until??