Slugs

Slugs! Or, as my kids would probably say, when in a silly mood, shlugs! We don't see these guys often, but with all the rain we have had up here, they do appear on our stepping stones from time to time. Often, they don't seem to be in enough of a hurry, and they end up a dried blob about half way across. They aren't as big either as the ones I used to see regularly on a rainy day in California when I lived there in 1979 and 1981, but they are interesting.

Speaking of rain, we have had plenty, including about 4" yesterday. I'm having to pay lots of attention to keeping the boat pumped out or drained of water. The lake is unusually high, and the first three feet or so of our dock (which goes slightly uphill from the shore to the main dock level) is under water. I've not seen that before! You may have read too about the flash floods in Duluth, which is only about an hour and a half from here, where the zoo flooded and a number of their animals were drowned or escaped temporarily. It evidently hit there at 3AM, and the staff didn't have enough advance warning to save them.