End of Tapping Weekend
April 9th through 11th   
On Friday, just after sunset, soft white bands of smoke from cabin-warming fires floated over the lake.  No fishermen were sighted, which was expected.  Opening day is 3 weeks away.
On Saturday, a memo was sent out informing all on the north end of Lucerne that the sap had stopped running and bucket pulling time had started.
The meager amount of sap some of the trees were producing was deemed insignificant.  All buckets and spiles were out of the woods by 1:30 PM.
A few trees did not get the memo.
All but a few buckets were washed, rinsed and stacked by 2:00 PM
After bucket pulling there was golf, church, golf, a campfire, Drinks and a cigar (5 Vegas Gold!), pool and a well attended bar night.  Saturday night did not end until well into Sunday morning.
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The lake is down.  Winter did a poor job this year of bringing the level up.  Now it's up to spring to supply the storms needed to push the lake level up a foot or two (or three, or four).  We measured 0.4 inches of rain last week.  Spring will have to do better than that to get my respect.  The water remaining is clear and cold.  Swimming and skiing will have to wait a week or two (or three, or four).  The smelt run on the lake this year was great if you don't count the lack of any smelt.

-Nemo