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Friday, April 20, 2012

As Spring Unfolds at the Lake

     Spring popped out this year before winter stood a chance to become cold.  What does this mean at Long Cabin Rental?LongCabinRentalatLakeOzark.com First off we noticed the grass greened up early. This, in turn, made us transplant some items in the flower bed and put out bulbs earlier than I can ever recall. Next, the Redbud and the Dogwood bloomed about three weeks early. The crappie began their spawn three weeks early, according to reports from my personal crappie king. 
    This year we have been caught by the Hydrangea bug.  After admiring the big blue ones surrounding the front of our daughter's home at Osage National, we studied up and bought three. We purchased two Little Limes to sit in the sun and one pot of Endless Summer to sit in partial shade.  Now we wait and see how tasty they are to deer.  Late this winter, the monkey grass became so comfy, they began sleeping in it!
     The early morning hum from bass boats involved in tournaments reminds one of some kind of giant group of bees about to land. The crappie king always gets a little excited when he sees professional fisherman testing the waters near our docks. I'm never sure if that is a happy excited or sad when he sees these guys. He's been known to count how many fish the neighbor pulls out of his boat well in order to decide whether to check out the fish. Each week not only do we see bass boats, fishing boats, but the leisure boaters are beginning to exercise their propellers. 
            Even the roads and stores near by seem caught up in spring growth.  We now motivate about on new by-ways and highways designed to get us to our destination faster, designed to help lake visitors not get choked in traffice as they drive to and from the lake.  It seems to work, even though it took us old times awhile to get used to it.  Store seems to be springing up in weeks.  The latest to pop up on the scene are Kohls, CVS Pharmacy, and JoAnns. Right behind these latest opening is Menard's near Eagles Landing.http://lakeexpo.com/community/community_news/article_73a799f4-4696-11e1-9fcc-001871e3ce6c.html 
     What do all these early signs of spring mean, stock up on bug spray, I think they're going to be hungry this year!