The River

Have you ever been around a river that was rising - not at flood stage yet, but on the rise? Well, that is were I am living at the moment. Let me digress a little and explain - when Dan and I moved to North Florida in October the Suwannee River was at an all time low - it had never been this low in recorded history - but it was cool looking at the limestone deposits on the side of the river. Of course, we couldn't get anywhere near the river on the docks - the water was too low. Dan's favorite thing (besides bugging me) was to take the golf cart down to "his" dock, sit - smoke a cigar and contemplate whatever it was that he wanted to contemplate. This was his "man cave" since he didn't have one at the house. It was nice - he could get away from all the girls in the house (the two fat daschunds and me) and yet we knew where he was IF we needed him.

Well, he can't get to "his" dock today - the river is so far over the path that the golf cart with the lift kit can't get through the water. This just happened today. Yesterday the water was over the path, but it wasn't that deep - today all that can get through are frogs and snakes.

Speaking of frogs - I decided to join my 'big guy' this morning and see how high the water was. As we crossed the road and started back to the dock I started hearing a noise. I thought it was ducks - lots and lots of ducks - maybe a whole flock that was migrating somewhere and thought this was a good place to sit down for awhile - but as we got closer to the water's edge I realized it wasn't a flock of ducks - it wasn't even one duck - it was hundreds and hundreds of frogs. Now for some silly reason we had decided to take the "two fat daschunds" with us on this little jaunt and Samantha decided that she wanted to 'hunt frogs' and dove into the water. I about freaked out - all I can think about is snakes! (Not that I had seen any, but I just knew they were out there in that water waiting to get my little dog ) I yelled for her to come - what was I thinking???? She comes to me but now she is wet and covered with dirt and what does she decide to do? Of course, she jumps into the golf cart and up into my lap - YUCK!!!! What was little Jessie Lee doing while her 'big sister' was getting in trouble, just sitting beside me in the cart - looking around and whining (That's my girl!).

Well, we take the girls back home and then decide to go ride around in the Jeep and see what we can find. I take the camera and take a few pictures of the river. I'm also hoping that we don't get stuck anywhere - even IF the Jeep is four wheel drive. Well, the trip was successful - we didn't get stuck - we looked at the water levels (the river is NOT over it's bank anywhere that we saw) but it is certainly flowing quickly.

What does the future hold for us 'on the river' - well, I'm not really sure. We will just have to keep one eye on the weather and the other on the river. Stay tuned -it could get real interesting around here in the next week or so.