Phatwater on the Natchez gauge, today, is 37.81′.  It was a warm weekend, with little to report, and we cancelled our Phatwater tour due to the prediction, anticipation, and ultimately the confirmation of excessively warm weather.  We opted for an early Sunday morning paddle along the east bank, which, shady though it was, was still quite toasty.  We saw two alligators, small, and one Prothonotary Warbler.  Prothonotary, by the entry in the dictionary I have at the moment, is defined as, “a variation of Protonotary”.  Protonotary is then defined as: “a chief clerk in some courts of law, originally in the Byzantine Court.  Speaking of Byzantine Courts, I stumbled upon this recently:

Yes, I know there are grammatical errors.  I was trying to be as true-to-form as possible,

given . . .

Registration through Active.com is being worked up today.  We’ll see how it goes this year, then make changes if necessary. Sorry for all the delays.  But remember, in order to have any sort of future, you have to have some sort of past, whether good, bad, or stringy.

All For Now-KB