8-12 Boating, Swimming and Olympics

The temperature at our house at 3:00

Today was the hottest day we have seen this summer, at our house it was 106 degrees. This morning Larry and I went to the lake. There were more boats trailers in the parking lot, eight including ours. The wind was up so Larry drove to what we call the bend looking for smoother water, usually we find good water there but today we were out of luck. The water wasn't as rough as by Rogers Park area, you could ski on it if you wanted to but we decided to wake board. This was the first time we wake boarded this year. After wake boarding we floated. It was getting warm so we went into the water to cool off. We had another wonderful day on the Lake Belton.

Look at the spray while wake boarding

Having fun wake boarding

Another beautiful day on Lake Belton

 After putting the boat in the garage I let Flo out of the house to say hi. Then we went inside and had lunch. After lunch Flo started pestering us to go somewhere. Larry told her that it was getting hot, it was already 95 degrees but she didn't care. So we loaded her in the car and headed towards town. Flo hadn't been swimming for a few days so we went to Nolan Creek. The sun was high and it was hard to find shade, Larry found a bit of shade to park in near a little grass area at the Bell County Appraisal District. We were parked in a different area than normal so Flo had to check it out, she sniffed around and then we walked down to Nolan Creek. The water was really green today, I don't know why, it was probably caused by some kind of runoff upstream. There were a couple of boys playing in the creek. When they saw Flo they were very excited. They swam with their tube to say hi to her. Flo swam with them for a little while. She swam all the way to the restaurants and headed back. She didn't want to get out of the water. After awhile she finally did. She was so tired that it took us awhile to get back to the car. When we got there I asked Larry to wipe her down. Once she was dried off I loaded her into the car. We stopped by the UPS Store to pick up our mail, we were going to go to Walmart to pick up a couple of items but we couldn't find any shade and it was too hot to leave Flo in the car so we went home.

Swimming in Nolan Creek

Swimming with my new friends

Once we were back at the house I took a nap and Larry watched YouTube videos on duct work, he is thinking about another house project. When I woke up I read until dinnertime. After dinner we watched YouTube videos until it was time for the Olympics. Then I read until it was time to go to bed. We had a great day.

What a great day!!!!