Pre Holiday to the lake...

 The driveway into the lake... it always feels soo good to pull up in the driveway for the weekend at the lake. 

After we set up the bare items we needed for the one night, tent, tarp, air mattress, sleeping bags, pillows and lights we got to work! 

The new foldable cart worked perfect to carry all our camping stuff from the truck to the beach. Sooo much easier loading this cart up and making three trips instead of multiple trips or trying to break my arms and carry as much as possible. The only down side to this cart is to figure out how to fold it back up and store it like it came. I have yet to figure out where the bottom of the cart goes to store correctly. 

First  I had to sit and just look at the lake.. before helping bring the picnic table sections down. 

We had to carry the table from the truck to the beach in sections.  Steve then assembled the parts for this HUGE picnic table on our beach. 

All finished and set in the shade, under trees on the beach. 

We also moved the row boat from the shoreline, that was in front of the picnic table to the other side of our lake beach, next to the fence where the neighbor stores his table and other crap. We figured, might as well cover up our view of his junk with the boat! 

I had purchased all these little solar lights to put one the trees. Looked soo nice and festive. Really made the area brighter at night, not soo spooky!! Plus will be a nice area to have lit up if we come back after dark. 

I could still use two more sets of lights for two more trees. I need to find some big inside the tent solar hanging lights too.

After all the work, it was time to head out to the winery/brewery, Carlos Creek. Drinks and dinner! 

More carbs than I needed! Still managed to eat around 1000 calories Saturday night with 1 beer and 2 slices of pizza with some pretzel and beer cheese. Not the best choice but my only meal of the day. 

Back to the lake, a little rest on the hammock, a walk in the water and along the shore to check out the erosion from the spring thaw. 

Slept in the tent next to the water, and woke up to fog, and zero wind. Last night was bright out with the moon shining! Steve and I both didn't sleep very well. We are use to a very dark bedroom and this was like day light! I'm not sure if I even slept! 

Sunday we were packed and ready to go home by 11am. I would have liked to stay the whole day, but Steve wanted to get home. The weather cooled off to only 69 and it was cloudy. 

Perfect night for a bonfire, no wind, zero bugs and perfect temperature!

We at least got a lot done this weekend with bringing up the new picnic table and moving the boat. Figuring out where 100ft back from the shore line was at to know where the future cabin would start and how many trees we need to cut down. 

We also googled this dock company and found out we can purchase a similar 32 ft dock with a L section for around $4000 to assemble and have it delivered on site. Something to think about for a future addition. We took out and got rid of an old steel dock years ago. We have been fine without a dock and might keep it that way? 

Just a few more photos from our time at the lake.

Fingers crossed the Memorial Day weekend will be just as nice. Right now it's looking like low 70's with a chance of rain 30% each day. Not ideal camping at the lake weather!