By Clayton Perry,
Vice Commodore

Spring is here!  Everyone is gearing up for a great 2008 on the lake. According to the Farmer’s Almanac it looks like it’s going to be a good summer. The Almanac says it will be “warmer than normal: across much of the nation. Precipitation will average “near or somewhat below normal” for our area.  So right now it sounds as if it’ll be a great lake year—we’ll see.

You may have noticed the new self-locking door handles on the doors that go out on to the party deck. These were put there to help keep those doors locked when we are not in the clubhouse. If you see anyone leaving the doors open, please just give them a friendly reminder that we have had some thefts and that we should keep all the doors locked when not attended.

There was a general cleanup of the club house scheduled on the 9^th of March, but nobody showed up and it was probably due to the lack of information and the weather—it was a cloudy, cool and windy day, so most folks went home early that Sunday. The clubhouse is in pretty good shape, so I went to the storage trailer and did some organizing and cleaning. There’s a lot of stuff that I got rid of and probably a lot more that should be thrown away. But, I did some organizing and it looks OK.

The trailer doesn’t have any lighting in it and on a cloudy day, it gets pretty dark towards the rear of the trailer. When I was cleaning up in the front end (away from the entry) of the trailer, something took off like a rocket and scared the heck out of me. Since I was by myself and it was dark, I scrambled to get out of there, tripping and falling along the way. While trying to get up and out the back door “it” was running around and trying to either get me or get out the back door too. As I was parachuting out the back door I looked behind me and there I saw “it”—a squirrel standing there on its hind legs laughing its butt off at me. I’m actually glad that there wasn’t anyone there with me, but now that the story is out I guess it really doesn’t matter.

Clayton Perry

Vice commodore