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	Name:	MotorMan -
	Subject:	When life hands you a lemon...
	Date:	6/12/2007 3:31:31 PM

In 1975 I bought my lake house. That's the one I have mentioned about it being a "tear down" that I fixed up to live in for fifteen years.

Anyway there was a bad drought in 1976 and the lake went down. Its one of the simple joys of living on a headwaters lake. There was no lake higher in the County so no cow manure came downstream. Bad news was there was stream to have ANY water come downstream.

I had a terrible mosiquito problem. There was a swamp in the backyard. With the drought, it dried up, My Nephew came out and dug out a hole and put in a treated lumber box with a septic tank pump in it. By chooseing that type of pump it could handle small twigs and leaves and pump water up hill and then by gravity out. It was a simple system. I had an extention core and when it rained I pluged it in and it ran all night and then I let the sun dry the last part. That really cleared up the mosqutoes.

So that drought gave me a lemon and I made lemonaide.

Use this lemon to build those seawalls and other projexcts that may need REALLY down water this winter and now for 482 projects.

I got 0.20 inch of rain about 1:30 today. It was accompanied by some strange loud noises coming from the sky but it has been so long since I head this I forgot what it is called.

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Water Level Down to 483.3 - MartiniMan - 6/12/2007 3:05:08 PM

Water Level Down to 483.3 - waterbug - 6/12/2007 3:06:21 PM

When life hands you a lemon... - MotorMan - 6/12/2007 3:31:31 PM

I agree - TotheLake - 6/12/2007 3:35:46 PM

I agree - waterbug - 6/12/2007 5:13:30 PM

When life hands you a lemon... - MartiniMan - 6/12/2007 5:14:11 PM

When life hands you a lemon... - waterbug - 6/12/2007 5:17:05 PM

Water Level Down to 483.3 - Aardvark - 6/12/2007 6:33:12 PM

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