Visit Wisconsin

In June, a visit to Wisconsin was in order. I had not seen my mother or sister in 7 month. This gave us a chance to catch up.

Audubon in June 2

June in Audubon

Finally I now have my computer working at home and can take time to keep in touch. These pictures represent some of our our "June" in Audubon. We nurtured our flowers even though it was cold most of the month. Our daisies did well and could be found in large areas in our yard. I always mowed around them and will keep on doing it until they will wilt. We tried to go on the water as often as possible. We encountered this family of loons. They are so friendly and will let you get very close before diving down. We had Rennae's mom and dad out to visit. Brian who works nights, is good company when not sleeping. Patty and George (Patty is a classmate of Rennae from Williston ND days ) stopped by to visit. They live in Alaska , are retired and still do charter fishing every summer. They are visiting family and friends in the lower 48 states and travel in their rv. They also spend some of each winter in Arizona. There just aren't too many people left that like the cold of winter.

The word is that fishing is poor this year. The State has placed all kinds of limits on both size and number of fish this year. A few days ago this week Brian and Rennae went fishing for a few hours and came back with a nice catch. I ended up doing the cleaning and packaging. This represents about 4 meals for us .

We left on May 30 in 90 degree weather and a day later ended in snow country. Yellowstone was still cold. We also had to dodge buffalo that roamed the roads with us. Camping was fun and it was nice to have some grass under our feet. It was nice to see that the house was still standing. None of the trees had any leaves. Most of the grass was green and there was no ice on the lake. we did some repairs and got some vehicles running again. Our garden will be our first task. We'll wait for some warm weather.

We left Saturday May 10 and arrived Tuesday late afternoon. the trip was uneventful, but still seemed long. To update this blog, we still have to go to the local library located in Detroit Lakes--about 12 miles away. The weather has been poor--rain, cold, and wind and cloudiness all day. After days of repairs and getting things started again we have made our lives livable. I finally have a boat in the water--so now we can enjoy our cruises (because of bad weather, we have only been on the water twice) Memorial Day week only gave us one nice day. Our garden is in, flowers planted, and some vehicles are running. Our satellite is up and we can get our TV working.

Just now when everything is starting to bloom, it is time for us to go. We'll load up the dogs and the bird--Yes he's been with us for over 15 years as you can see from the picture. We're planning to leave tomorrow and should be in Audubon in 3 days. The last few days we have been getting this house closed up --it is not an easy task because there are so many small things to take care of.