Ghosts and Goblins and...

Golfers! On this Halloween Day, we decided to masquerade as golfers. In old Branson, downtown, there is a Par 3 course that us locals can play for just $6 for 9 holes. You actually replay 4 holes to make it a 9-hole. It is complete with 2 water hazards so we feel like we are back at Bob's Country Club.

Mike has the stance and the clothes and really does pretty good most of the time.

I can still turn a Par 3 into a 6 with regularity, but is a good way to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather.

Another great way to enjoy fall in the Ozarks is to go fishing. Mike was driving around a couple of days ago and found a "devastated area" that he thought I would enjoy so that is where we went yesterday. Doesn't look too bad, does it...

This is part of the marina that the Corps of Engineers towed up to land, you see the whole area has been under water for the better part of the year, beginning with early spring flooding. Notice the water tap that was part of a campsite along the Beaver Creek.

In the foreground, you are seeing former campsites ruined by the water and towards the back, wreckage from straight line winds that struck the area this summer - talk about bad luck.

This is what the ground looks like after all the rain and gunk and now finally it is drying out and looking like a moonscape.

This is a called a "long ear" sunfish and the coloring was much more beautiful than the picture shows, but they were too small to keep.
The "green eye" sunfish was bigger in size and we brought home enough of those for a couple of meals. In Missouri, Sunfish are not considered game fish; you can catch as many as 50 at one time and there is no season.

I spent the day soaking up sunshine (it was 76 degrees), doing some organizing of pictures by this slightly slanted cement table, and reading.
The marina you see beyond the shoreline is free floating right now; there are still boats attached to it but you would need a boat to get to your boat...

Thanks again, Terry and Janet, this fillet knife has been used all over the states!

While we were at this "closed" recreation area, the wind changed and this piece of marina broke away from some trees and floated closer to shore - a very eerie site and sound; lots of metal rubbing together.

I couldn't resist taking more pictures of the ground.

And it gets a little closer...

Since this seems to be a Halloween special, take a look at this picture I took from our front door a couple of nights ago.

What a "Treat" to see these deer grazing just across from our campsite. This is not a photographic "Trick" - it is the way the picture turned out.

Happy Halloween from two wandering ghouls (or should that be "fools").