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After 2 days of tantalizing me with far off calls and appearing by the road when I was in a hurry on the way to pick someone up or drop off at school with no camera I finally caught the loon!  With a lake still half frozen the loon has restricted swimming area for awhile […]

The resort is finally quiet before deer hunting and Thanksgiving.. what does that mean… projects start.  The biggest and most expensive project next to Craig’s roofing project started today.  Kaubashine and Shamrock are getting 2 new septic systems and a new drain field.  The big equipment came in today only thing missing was Craig who […]

I caught Billy Borger fishing in the lake mists.  Billy has caught at least 2 muskies this week at last count.  This is is favorite time to fish among the mists before anyone is up See you in June Billy.

Walked down to the lake to catch the lake mists this morning.  Enjoy the pictures I like the reflection of the clouds in the lake with the mists I took this same picture yesterday and the change in the scenery with the leaves is amazing More pictures like these to come as the lake slowly […]

A quiet week at the resort without guests in some areas means Craig starts looking to the sky at dead trees.  They picked this tricky dead birch between out house and Kaubashine.  Odds on hitting the house 50 – 50 Discussing and tightening up the come a long Notice Craig picking up his feet, tree […]

Reading on the internet we came up with a recipe for poison ivy eradication.  The ingredients for 2 potions were purchased Troy trying out the 1st potion.  If you smell vinegar around the resort stay clear you are close to the poison ivy.  1 gallon vinegar, 1 cup salt, 1 tbl spoon dish soap.  So […]

A few days of Norway being open and it got 1/2 of its new roof on.  The rest will have to wait til fall.  Craig happily admiring his work.  While up on the roof he found an interesting message left from one of 3 characters under a few layers of old roofing… Bunger, Paul or […]

Beautiful afternoon and we escaped chores to go out for a little fishing adventure on the pontoon boat Wanna wow a teenager have them catch a big perch. The loon had to stop in and check out the fishing as well.   We spotted the new nesting spot of the loons in the back bay. […]