Yearly Archives: 2026

2026 Hors D’oeuvre Party Announcement!

Well February is here and the mid-winter doldrums are due soon if they haven’t already hit you. Don’t let them get you down! We’ve got a cure with our annual Mid-Winter Doldrum Party! We first held this fun hors d’oeuvre party in 2020, just before COVID shut down such gatherings. We resurrected the event in 2024 and have held it every year since. It comes in mid to late February when the Winter Doldrums are at their height and people just need to get out! This year it is being held on Saturday February 21st at 5:00 PM at the home of Fran and David Marsh at 40 Enos Lane, Jefferson Maine. This is the home that Art Enos built on Clary Lake and it is located off the Sennett Road. If you’ve always wondered what the place was like, this is your chance to find out! What a great place for a party!

This party is not only for Clary Lake Association members! Non-members are welcome too! It will be a great opportunity to meet people and find out more about the Association. Bring your favorite appetizer, hors d’oeuvre, or dessert and your beverage of choice and shake off those winter blues! In the event of inclement weather making a gathering on Saturday unrealistic, we’ll put up a notice here and will hold the party the next day, same time, same place. Hope to see you there!

December 2025 Water Level Chart Archived

12 Clary-Lake-Water-Level-December-2025And so we come to the end of another year. I have archived the December 2025 water level chart (above, and at left) and also updated the 2025 Water Level Charts gallery with all the relevant 2025 charts for Clary Lake (and probably a few irrelevant ones as well) showing the year in numbers: lake level, transparency, dissolved oxygen, temperature, rainfall, flushing rate and retention time, etc. I do hope you’ll take some time to review the charts.

We received 41.21 inches of precipitation for the year, 2.85 inches short of the average annual rainfall of 44.06 inches. 2.85 inches isn’t a  huge shortfall but because of the timing of the precipitation we did receive (most of it fell in March, April, and May), we still ended the year in Severe Drought.

I’ll leave you with the 2025 water level chart which dramatically shows the falling water level and rainfall amounts. This year I added the secchi disk readings (in meters, right hand scale) that we recorded last season; you can see that as the lake level fell, so did lake transparency, ending up in late September just under 2 meters- officially an algal bloom:

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