If I only had a boat, a hoe, some fire wood

Sunday, June 7, 2015

When I was fairly little, our family and almost all our friends loved to fish, and one of the lakes we fished quite a bit was Lake McConaughy in Nebraska. It is a huge lake -- right at four miles wide at the face of the dam. It stretches almost 22 miles long and has a surface area of almost 56 square miles. If you stand on the dam and look straight west, you can't see the end of the lake.

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