Cool pic

I thought this was a cool picture of Gary and Petra. These two are together constantly, I keep asking them if they're sick of each other yet and she's the first to answer.....No!!

They spend most of their time here, he made a little fire pit by the garage, they sit by the fire, make smores, go four wheeling and play pool out in the garage. Oh...besides eating!

Biking for the environment

Back to blogging.....

Last Saturday Emma participated in a biking event to support environmental causes. I don't know much more about it other than she had to report to Diamond Point Park by 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning. She and a friend biked with the rest of the participants around Lake Bemidji. It took them about 2.5 hours, they did get a free lunch and a t-shirt out of the deal.

She decided to do this about a week before, but waited until the morning of the event to get the bike out of the shed.....the shed that is a habitat for a family of skunks. The bike hasn't been ridden in a few years, so it was covered with cob webs and smelled like skunk, plus the tires were flat!! So, on the way into town besides gassing up we had to inflate the bike tires. But, that's pretty normal for us, always running with only moments to spare if even that.

She told her friend about her bike smelling like skunk and she said 'Yeah, I thought I could smell skunk"! It's been sitting outside in the truck box now since last Saturday, so hopefully it doesn't stink anymore. Plus, it hasn't been stolen out of the truck....yet. I'll take it out tomorrow.

She made it around the lake successfully, tires even held out.

The Floating Cabin....

Well.....Here's Vince's cabin, the floating cabin!! You have to either swim, canoe, ski or sled to it.......nice uh?

Ha, no it's not Vince's. At one time, this was the nicest cabin on the lake before the lake took over.

It was sitting on a small peninsula with a road going to the end of the point. My next post explains a little about the lake. You can see some of the trees in this pic that were killed off by the flooding.

Couple more pics

A few pictures taken at night one of the deck, the fire pit and one taken of the cabin from the lake. This lake is weird, it's a spring fed lake that began to flood about 10 years ago. You can see on the shores some of the cabins that were completely flooded and are still immersed in water. There's one in front of Vince's cabin, partially immersed and you can tell that back in the day it was pretty nice. It looks like a nice little cabin floating on top of the water. The trees along the lake shore were also killed off by the rising water.

Saturday morning...

After breakfast and cleaning dishes, Vince decided to take the four wheeler down the road to see his neighbors from the night before. I decided to go to the dock and wash my hair, afterwards as I was sat on the deck drinking a cup of coffee and putting on the face for the day listening to tunes. I decided to do a little video of the cabin, it's not the best quality of you'll get the idea.

Rustic little cabin.....

A few pictures from last weekend. It was a weekend we both needed, it was peaceful, restful, relaxing and fun. There were no other people at the end of the little peninsula, just us and the occasional fishing boat going by at 10 mph or slower. We got there about 7:30, got settled in and were relaxing when the neighbor from down the road a ways stopped by, he was just coming in from the city for the weekend, he came to Vince's cabin before he even went to his own. We sat and visited with him and his son in law for a while listening to their crazy shories. There was no cell phone reception, which I had mixed feelings about. On one hand I worry about no contact with the 'kids' and on the other hand I had to let that go and enjoy the company and peacefulness.

After we ate dinner, we sat outside on the deck, listening to loons and other lake noises. We just kept saying how nice it was, even better than going to the city and staying in a fine hotel and dealing with traffic and crowds.

Happy Birthday (one day late)....

In other words Happy Belated Birthday to my sis!!! Got a phone call this morning....'what you doing', 'where are you', DID YOU FORGET MY BIRTHDAY?? I meant to post this yesterday but didn't have access to my pics, plus didn't get home until late.

So here tis...Sounds like she had a good one with her hubby, daughter, and friends. Vi's pizza sounds really good!! So do the gift's she got. It's not everyday you turn 35 again.

I wish her happiness, healthiness, and wealthiness!

Ever feel like this???

Yes, there are days when I feel like I look like this. Especially in the last few months. Dealt with major stress at work, reorganization, moving of offices, moving of furniture, moving of people, and as a result dealing with disgruntled people that did not want to move but were basically forced to move from their department so we could move in - we knew they were disgruntled when on the weekend our wall pockets were ripped off the wall, and the hallway outside our offices was filled from one end to the other with their old inventory they had in storage probably since the beginning of this college, I'm talking ancient telescopes, computers, keyboards, monitors and other unidentifiable science equipment! And the list goes on and on.

I didn't realize how exhausted I was, it finally all caught up with me. Been laying low for the last few days dealing with the after effects. Trying to relax, once I get home I really enjoy my quiet evenings at home.

Hopefully, I'll be able to continue to relax over the weekend at Vince's cabin, second picture. I'm looking forward to it, the only thing is there's no cell phone reception, we have to ride 'out to the road' to check phones. We're loading up the four wheelers, grocery shopping and planning on pontooning if the weather cooperates.
The country there is beautiful!