Lake Hood

We live on Lake Hood. It's the busiest float plane base in the world. People ask if the airplanes bother me. They can be noisy at times but I grew up a mile west of O'Hare airport. I like airplane noise. It's not as bothersome as where we used to live. Our last house had a neighbor who let her dog out in the early morning. The dog would proceed to bark, and bark, and bark..... It would wake you up and was very annoying as you never knew when it would end. With the airplanes they may wake you up momentarily but it soon passes and you can go back to sleep.

We have so much daylight in the summers that the planes start taking off about 5-6am on the weekends.

The baby ducks are following their mothers about. It is very relaxing to just sit outside and watch the planes and ducks. We even have a pair of otters that occasionally swim by for a visit.

It's about a 4 mile bike ride/walk around the lake. I will ride my bike unless it's windy then I will walk part way and back.