Beachcombing in Kentucky

Beach combing in Kentucky is a little different than beach combing in Florida.  For starters, there isn't miles of beautiful white sand.  Second, the shells here are way smaller and a lot fewer.  On the bright side, we do find a lot more sea glass in Kentucky for some reason.

Today we spent over 2 hours walking the shoreline, picking and poking for treasures.  The water level is extremely low yet, in fact, it's probably still at winter pool, so we like to walk the shoreline while we can.

In some areas the lake is so low that we had to climb down the swim ladders to get to the beach...

I love this tree.....

The lake is still rather empty and quiet.  I don't think we saw another person the entire time we were out.

We found a cute little turtle.....

We also found 3 fishing lures and some sea glass, but I forgot to take a picture.  We wash the lures and hang them on a seining net in the basement bathroom.

I also found a brand new pair of needle nose pliers, laying on the beach.  I snapped them up quickly too.  These are going right in my tackle box and will be perfect for removing fish hooks.  I was really quite excited about this find!

Afterwards we admired my azaleas, which look beautiful....

Then we dragged the kayaks out.  Like I said, the water levels are really low, so our dock is still sitting on the bottom of the lake, except for the back end of it, which is on about 6" of water.  Just barely enough to launch the kayaks, but we made do...

We paddled around our bay a bit, happy to just be out on the lake.....

We also had to do some work around the house.  It was 86 degrees and the A/C wouldn't go on.  My husband took a look at it and wisely decided that he had better call the "A/C guy."  Some things are just better left to the professionals.  Anyway,     $ 130.00, a new thermostat and a new sensor something or other, and we were back in business.  Altho I swear, the minute it got fixed, the temperatures dropped and its about 50 degrees now.

Also on the agenda was a new faucet for the sink in our bathroom.  This is something we have been putting off for forever!  The biggest reason being that this is an old lake house.  Things are rusty.  Like the pipes under the bathroom sink.  Louie didn't want to mess with the water lines under there.  So here was the problem.....  the faucet dripped.  Badly....  We tried taking the handles apart numerous times and tightening the nuts.  We installed new washer thingy's.  It still dripped.  Then the drip turned into a slow, steady stream of water.  I had a hammer next to the sink and I'd bang the handles until the dripping stopped.  Then the next time I wanted to turn on the faucet, I'd have to use the hammer and bang the handles until the water came back on.  Finally I got fed up with it and just filled up a gallon jug of water and left it on the sink to use to wash my hands and brush my teeth...  for the past 8 months!   God, I hope you all aren't laughing at me now!    So when we got here this time and turned on the main water supply, the water started dripping out the faucet and no matter how much I pounded it with the damn hammer, the steady stream of water was not stopping.   I just looked at Louie and told him he was going to have to fix it.  So out came the saw zaw, which is never a good sign in this house.

He ran to town, got a new faucet and water lines, hooked it up and ... ta-da.....

Please ignore the rust spot in the sink.  I love this sink - it's big and deep.  Maybe one of these days we'll be able to afford to fix all the stuff that needs fixing around here, but for right now, I'm thrilled to have a bathroom faucet that works!  Next on the list is a new toilet, but I don't think Louie really wants to hear about that this trip.