OK...so, it's not the kind of holiday lights I imagined

I've been meaning to write about spending the holidays at Lake Anna for weeks now but time has gotten away from me. So, while I thought I'd give a quick guide on finding the best holiday lights around the lake or Lake Anna holiday events for this weekend here's a strange twist...I found this article in my mailbox this morning instead. Let's just say this isn't the holiday post I envisioned.

Looks like Dominion Power has gotten an early Christmas present from the feds. The Richmond Times Dispatch reports:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a final environmental-impact statement on Dominion Virginia Power's request for a site permit for one or two new reactors at its North Anna Power Station. Regulators concluded that no environmental impacts would prevent the permit from being issued and no superior sites were available. Any adverse environmental impacts from preparing the site and preliminary construction could be dealt with, they said.

Of course, there are always many steps in these approval processes. No one expects the permitting to be completed until late next year at the earliest.

Ho-Ho-Ho. Not quite the traditional Holiday post but I'm off to wrap some more presents and bake some more goodies.

One of the "Joys" of Lake Living...Not!

As urbanites, the transition to lake living was a true learning experience for us. Septic systems, wells, wild critters eating everything we plant and winterizing boats are just a few of the topics that presented a real challenge at first!

Thankfully, this year the cold winter weather has really been delayed so all of our procrastinating wasn't quite as painful as it could have been...although my husband would disagree (since he had to get into the water one last time in November)...b-r-r-r. I was thinking about how daunting all of this was to us in those first winters. So, I thought I'd share the best winterizing information and resources I have found over the years.

Boat Safe's Nautical Know-How is a great website for a variety of water- related topics. They have a basic take on winterizing your boat that is helpful for novices. Boat USA also is a good resource and even has a winterizing check-list.

OK, now it's confession time. After doing all this research...we decided to leave it to the professionals. Many local marinas and/or boat dealers will come to you and winterize your boat or jet-ski right in your boat house. Can't beat that.

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The Wild Women of Lake Anna

Isn't it great when you get a "two-fer"?

For me, that's chocolate chip pancakes (two guilty pleasures rolled into one) and for my daughter it was finding a wonderful book called The Wild Women of Lake Anna. As a book lover (coming from a family of book lovers) finding an enjoyable story set in our favorite place was just too good to pass up.

Author, Linda Salisbury, is a Lake Anna local and has peppered this first in the Baily Fish Adventure series with lots of references that any Lake Anna resident or visitor will recognize. My daughter loved looking up places on the maps and tracking Baily's narrative with her own personal memories of favorite lake locales, like Contrary Creek.

Mrs. Salisbury has been signing copies of the latest in the series (already up to Book 4) throughout the Lake Anna area. Her next signing is Saturday, December 16th at Marshall's Corner in Unionville from 10a-2p.

Now if only I can cram one more thing onto my already ridiculous holiday "to do" list!

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