Today I turned 44. Which is probably the reason I was left out of the 20-under-40-movers-and-shakers-around-town list today.
That, and the fact that I don’t move or shake so good no more.

Anyway, I sent both kids off to school this morning then loaded up the kayak to treat myself to a quick paddle on the lake.

Disregarding the fecal coliform warning sign, I put in at Lake Place Plaza, or Corner of the Lake Park, and went to about 21st Ave E. It was a hazy day, one of those days where the horizon disappears and the water and the sky appear to be the same thing. Which as you head into it, leads you to believe you could be flying, or drowning. The water was really still, so I could see stuff on the bottom pretty well. I saw:

several pipes and tubes, but the most interesting was at about 15th Ave. There was a big pipe, probably 3 feet across, and it had rods running along both sides of it. At each joint or junction between sections was what looked like a rubber seal or something, and some sort of mechanism attaching the rods to the junction. It went waaay out into the lake, I followed it out until the water got too deep to see it anymore. Here’s a crappy drawing of what I remember it looking like.

Anybody know what that might be? I think I heard the water supply comes from East of Lester River.