Scoakat's Blog

Yesterday afternoon the sun finally came out, so after the Badger game I took the walk around our section of Starkweather creek to get a clo...

Things have settled in to late summer around here.  Flowers are past their peak, football is starting and I've not been posting much of ...

On Sunday we got out on the lake for the first time this year (thanks Terry!).  It's always nice to be out there on the water.  It was...

It was nice while it lasted.  Tomorrow morning I will be getting up at stupid o'clock and going back to work.  But I still have today. ...

December is slipping away, the holidays are almost upon us and I've hardly posted a thing lately.  There's not been much to post abo...

On Thanksgiving Day we went south to Stoughton to my sister-in-law's house to celebrate with her family.  They happen to live near the Y...

Late Thursday/early Friday we got a small layer of snow that has somewhat stuck around due to our temperatures have stayed below freezing.  ...

Today, September 29, 2018 In the middle of trying to put a different post together I walked down by the creek out of curiosity to see ...

I believe this picture came from here:  https://cleanlakesalliance.org/ The lakes had been high all summer so far, see my pic from earli...

The rain has continued this past week, as we watched nervously.  Water levels had been going down a bit until yesterday when we got more rai...

It's been two weeks since the heavy rains of August 20 washed in to flood streets, homes and businesses, and there is no end in sight.  ...

This picture from a couple hours ago is looking back upstream from the bridge in the picture from the last post .  Water levels are the same...

I went down by the creek today to see how it looked, not quite as full as yesterday and there is a slight flow to it again today.  Yesterday...

We've had rain recently.  The other night we had 10-13 inches in the western part of Dane County.  Madison is in the middle of the count...