So this past weekend we escaped for a glorious 4 day weekend at the lake. I absolutely heart the lake. The in-laws have moved up their full time and built a house we now have a ton of room where we can spread out and get comfy. Dave's mom keeps the upstairs ready for us, big ole room for us and the kids have room to hang out and watch tv. It's great.
I cook as much as possible as I miss having kitchenspace to do some big ole cooking...which meant amoung other things a big ole GF carrot cake that didn't last 24 hours. And thankfully when I start cooking, Grandpa (Dave's mom's dad) comes to hang. Love me some Grandpa, he cracks me up, always wanting to know how I made this or that and is always the first to clean his plate. Even better, he gets a huge kick out of the kids. This time he brought his dog, Duke, who gives Murphy fits.
Duke was rescued so is a bit skittish around anyone or any other dog but he is attached to Grandpa and is quite taken with Duchess. But you wanta see this skittish little man get very attentive, pull out a camera. The dog totally "sits pretty" everytime you point the camera at him. Adore this little guy. Watching him and Murphy play chase nonstop for an hour really peaks up my day.
While Dave and I enjoyed the rare chance to watch tv without kids underfoot, the kids invaded Grandma's sunroom which is where she hides with her crafts. While the kids make jewelry with her, I'm still angling to learn to stain glass.
While it was sprinkling quite a bit, it was insanely high at Grand water wise. The dam created Grand Lake in the 40's and with all the rain this year, Grand Lake was too high, so when we got there this weekend the spillways were opened a TINY little bit. And wow, the amount of water that comes out in....
Below the same spillway is usually where we went hiking but there was no hiking while the spill was one. The water so so fast and so high. The fishing was insane. They killed it, I passed in favor of a nap. Go me.
Below the dam is a state park where Dave took me fishing on one of our first dates. This is the exact area we hung out. The water was so high, you can't even see the boat ramps. Crazy.
Driving along the dam, this is the lake side.
A grubby me and Duchess under the spillway, Princess was at choir practice gearing up singing in front of her grandparents' church.
This is the river side of the dam, way down there, way way down there. Still can't believe how high the river was. No hiking for us like we wanted, but we went through some of the higher trails.
