The water is already 2 ft above normal level at this time.

I am a little behind on the Blog this week. As a few of you probably know, we had about 7 inches of rain last week. That put my work project behind a few days.  I’m posting a few pictures of our boat launch area, both before and after, to show how much the lake level rose. We gained over 6-¾ Ft of water. They have the gates open and are letting out over 5600 cubic ft per sec of water out. The water came in at an estimated 24,000 cubic ft per sec, just from one of the rivers flowing into the lake, so you can see why they gained so much.



Remember this One-Way Sign.

Just about covering the 100 ft wide parking lot.

The level went up one more inch than this sign shows.




There is a picnic table and BBQ grill under this canopy.

　

Today, Waco Lake is still 4-½ ft above where we were before the last rains began. Now consider this; The Lake was over 5’ below normal when we moved here almost 2 months ago.



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March 18, 2012

We met some really nice people this week from the Houston area. They were John and Sue Frank and John’s Sister and another lady. They are camping down in the Equestrian Camping area. John and Sue have a custom built horse trailer with a living area in the front half, a dog sleeping area/tack room in the middle and their horses ride in the rear of the trailer. John did all of the custom work himself, complete with a bed, TV and Electric Fire Place up front over the hitch and a mini kitchen and bath room/shower area just behind it where you entered. It was cozy but really nice.

The Equestrian Camping area is within the Coe land but the camp sites, and pavilion as well as some riding trails were built by the area Equestrian Club members. The Equestrian Area is open to horse back riding as a “Day-Use” designation which they pay about $4 a day or they can buy an annual pass. This area is also open to camping to anyone, not just horse owners, year round, but by reservation only, as opposed to the regular Camp Ground being closed during the winter.

There is also a huge (10’ or so diameter) fire ring near the entrance to this area, so last night My Sue and I gathered some firewood to take down to them and built a fire while visiting with the Mayor of Valley Mills, TX along with his two grand children whom had been camping there since last Sunday and they are close to wrapping up their visit here. After John and his family and friend finished their dinner they came over to join us. John brought his guitar along and treated us to a few songs including a few he had written himself. A very talented man for sure! Around 10 pm we all retired to our respective “homes” as they had a very busy day of getting camp set up and trail riding.

Next Saturday, the 24^th, we, along with Dick and Judy will be moving back to the regular camp ground area about a half mile north of where we are located now, so the summer Gate Attendants can move in. The good news is we have an absolutely beautiful view of Waco Lake. The bad news is we will have to break camp once a week so we can dump our septic tanks as there are no sewer hook-ups in the Camp Ground, only Water and Electric. We wouldn’t have had to move until Sunday or Monday but Sue is having her surgery Monday morning, so we wanted to get set up ahead of time.

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Well, Sue's Mother and Sister Kathy showed up on time at Dallas Airport this past Thursday morning. The timing was absolutely perfect, as we waited until Kathy let us know when they were aboard the plane in Minneapolis, before we left home. We had to stop for gas in Waco and then drove on to Dallas. When we first arrived at the Terminal, I inadvertently pulled into the bus and taxi lanes and there was no way to get over the cement island to the lanes we were supposed to be in. About the time I realized what I had done and had pulled over to the curb, one of those security guys, on one of those slick new cycles that they stand on, scooted right over to run us out. So we made another loop around the parking area and this time stayed to the left like we were supposed to do the first time. We were only stopped for a minute or two when Mom and Kathy walked out the door.

On the way to Waco We made a brunch stop on the south end of Fort Worth. We were going to introduce Mom and Kathy to a place called the Cotton Patch but they were not open until 11:00AM so we went across the freeway to I-Hop instead. All was not lost as we did do Supper at another Cotton Patch in Waco that evening.

Sue, Mom and Kathy did some shopping while I worked Friday morning. Sure, they fly all the way to Texas just to hit the "Good Will Store"! Later they came out to our camp ground to just sit in the sun and veg out. We sat around talking and I cooked burgers on the grill for all of us. We wound up the evening by driving through the Park looking for and finding many deer.

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