Perfect day on Norris Lake
With a blue sky, bright sun and temps up in the mid 70's it was a terrific day to be on Norris Lake. Not that I actually got ON the lake...nope. I started the day by being productive....fertilizing the flower beds and pulling weeds. But the wind was blowing gently, the dogwoods and redbuds are in full bloom and the lake surface was like a mirror - reflecting the sky. I pretty much awarded myself the rest of the day off due to a really bad case of spring fever. Curled up in a chair on the porch from where I could supervise the lake properly and read a book. A few fisher people putted by in their bass boats, but not much else was happening on my part of the lake. Very relaxing.
Barn owls are out there hooting away this evening. And there is some sort of bird or animal that screeches and I can't identify it. Would love to know what it is. The tree frogs are peeping away...my favorite sound to go to sleep to.
The lake is only a few feet below full pool and so looks really full. Very little shoreline is showing and most of the seasonal lakefront lots now have water in front of them. We're still below normals for rainfall and we have our collective fingers crossed that we get more rain and the lake stays full all summer. While we have had quite a few cloudy and rainy days, it apparently has not been a good enough quality rain for our needs. Rain is predicted for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
The tornados that hit the middle of TN over Easter weekend pretty much missed Norris Lake - which was fine with us. I'm not sure how it works, but most of the severe storms that travel Tornado Alley seem to veer off to KY or peter out before they reach us. Parts of the lake reported rain. Parts reported hellacious thunder and lightning. But no tornadoes.