See the Lacassine refuge Mermentau gauge most relevant to us is dropping again and am feeling it in my back after manually digging and prying out the only boat in our boathouse today with Ed O's much appreciated assistance. Was a far, far cry from the pleasure of watching the wood ducks pass while zipping across the "no motor" portion of the refuge in an airboat (with permit in hand) at sunrise this morning. But the really good news on the boathouse front is that Ed found a buddy who'd trade trackhoe work for teal hunting and having the wall blown out by my stall became a blessing:
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Bulkhead's rotted out so we didn't dare cut it too close, but the boat we dug out is now floating fully under cover in my slip. '
Also braved running it to my blind (ok, couldn't stand not to) and got a much better look at the mudhole than the hurried one in the ran a couple weeks back. Still flat tickled that the "pond" isn't a goose weed prairie, but continued drought may yet make it so, as shown by the view from the dog stand:
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Then, too, there's the ongoing cane battle. While spring poisoning knocked them back, they and the stuff that's trying to take their place, needed another lick:
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and got it late this afternoon. Which led to the first of what will be many "sticky" Mudhole situations:
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But I was at least able to get out there today, so I'm still counting blessings. (And dreading taking another shot in the morning at the much worse marsh that kicked the airboat's arse the other day. Not at all sure dew will be enough to make that one passable.)
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