The Lot!

Today we visited the Lot for the first time in weeks. General Line Road was in good shape compared to the last visit, when it was quite icy. However what will be our drive was still covered in snow, and over knee deep in places.

This first photo is taken from General Line Road, the drive entrance, and you realise that you will not be able to see the house from this point.

We trundled up the drive with Oliver racing ahead, and found the snow would not hold our weight in places, and our feet would sink up to two feet down in the snow. I found it quite strenuous, but Oliver thought it was the most amazing fun.

We confirmed what we already knew from GoogleEarth, with our GPS, that the house site is 700 feet above sea level. Even though I (Gemma) am living overlooking water for the first time in my life, something I had always wanted to do, I do realise that for our future, the higher we are above sea level will be better for survival. It would not have made sense buying low lying land.

What we did find was a clearing, which looks like it might be marshy, and has bull rushes, or the remnants of them, and both my sister and I love them, and we will have our own supply.

We are hoping to walk down the land the other side of the road after the snow has gone, as we both wanted to see what the lake /river frontage we have at the end of the land the other direction is like. We can see from the plan it seems to be the end of a river that almost becomes a lake, so we need to look at it to see what it is really like.