More moving

This last weekend we did somemore moving stuff from SSP to the lake. Rita was the only guest that came up. Saturday was rainy so we couldn't go out in the boat, so we went shopping in Rice Lake in the morning and worked in organizing Joel's garage. It finally cleared up around dinner time, so we packed Rita up on her scooter and we all went for a walk. Came back and had a cocktail and we all were in bed early. Sunday was a nice day, but very windy, so boating again. Came back early to do more cleaning in the SSP garage. Big Joe stayed up and will be home Thursday afternoon and we will be going up Thursday evening to start our vacation. Yea!

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Officially went to the island

Last year our first official date of in the water at the island was July 4th, this year the official date was June 20th. Saturday morning Joel & Big Joe put the jet ski lift into the water and boy is that slick. No more having to hook the trailer up to Big Joe's truck and haul it over to the Pokegama landing to launch it. Now we go down to the dock and hop on. Around noon we headed over to the island to meet Steve & Pam for lunch & a couple cocktails. Mike, Suzie, Baily & Maddie showed up a little later. It was a wonderful afternoon with absolutely beautiful weather. We all left around 4:30 pm to go back and get cleaned up to attend Tim & Sue's cabin warming party. Last fall, Tim & Sue started building their log cabin garage......it is officially the garage, but they converted it into a 2 bedroom house for them to live in while they try to sell their land & trailer over on the creek off of Pokegama (next to Steve & Pam) & their home. Once they sell thoses, I'm sure they will start on the main cabin and then convert the temporary cabin back to a garage. Well, anyways the garage cabin is beautiful and Sue has done a wonderful job of decorating and putting the homely touches to it. Also we were able to visit with Sue's son, Alex. He is the window washer that fell off 6 story bank building last week and lived to tell about it.
Here is the article from KARE 11:

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. -- It is an odd feeling knowing by any reasonable measure you should not be alive, but Alex Clay, 21, has spent the past day with little else on his mind.

"I can't believe I'm actually here," he says.

The window washer was crawling over the ledge at the top of Eau Claire's U.S. Bank Building Monday afternoon, transferring his weight, when he noticed his rigging wasn't properly connected.

He tightened his grip on a metal bar connected to his window cleaning apparatus. He can't say how long he held on with his feet dangling below him, but it felt like a long time.

"I held on as long as I could, but you get to the point where you're maxing out your body," he said. "You get to the point where I can't even support my life anymore. I have to let go."

Clay thought his safety rope would catch him, for reasons still unknown, it didn't. He fell six stories, hitting a metal awning above a doorway before hitting the sidewalk. A paramedic would later tell him that awning "'could have been what saved my life."

"He was very, very fortunate," says Dr. Brad Grewe, a trauma surgeon at Luther Midelfort hospital in Eau Claire. Grewe wonders if a rope or some other may have helped slow Clay's descent. "But to fall six floors - we don't even have many six story buildings in Eau Claire."

Clay suffered scrapes, bruises and a broken foot, but should be out of the hospital by Thursday.

"Everyone's just telling me it's a miracle," he says.

Anyways, it was nice to have the opportunity to visit with him instead of the alternative of visiting about him! He is doing well and is expected to make a nice recovery.

Sunday was father's day and Joel enjoyed his day with Jonathan. I made his favorite breakfast of Belgium waffles and then he did some work on his horseshoe pits and odd jobs around the house.

This weekend is shaping up to be another lovely weekend and we are hoping to get on the boat/jetski for some fun.

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Holy crap does time fly

It is already Thursday and I haven't even post to the blog yet. Oh well.....let's pretend it is Sunday night or even Monday morning:

This past weekend everyone was gone at the lake. Big Joe and Christina went to a powwow in Morton, MN. Pam worked on Saturday and hung our with her kids. Steve & Suzie were in the cities. Jeanne & Chris have put her land & camper up for sale, so I'm sure they weren't up. So that left Joel, Jonathan & me. Jonathan was flat on his back sicker than a dog, so by all reality....it was Joel & me.

We didn't want to uncover the boat and we couldn't take the jetski out for a ride, because we had no way to get it out of the garage into the water (Big Joe & his truck were gone). So we decided to make it a working weekend. After 24 1/2 years of marriage, we proved we can still do projects without killing each other. We totally cleaned out the garage, added ceiling racking to prepare for the move to the lake, added shelves under the steps for Joel to be a little more organized and totally clean off the work bench wall. It was alot of hard work, but boy does it look nice. We have been slowing moving stuff up and finally decided yesterday to rent a storage locker to storage all the stuff until we can get it figured out were it is going: the dump, the garage sale or keep it. We are cleaning out the SSP house in preparation of putting it up for sale.

Our beloved neighbor, Mrs B passed away in January, so her daughter Joann just listed her house on the market yesterday for $149,000. Boy that is scary. I hope the market turns a little more in the next month or two for when we are planning on putting out house on the market.

This weekend we are planning on having a fun weekend and have every intention of spending time at the island. On Monday we were fortune enough to have found a jet ski lift on Craigslist. Big Joe is coming home today from the lake so him & Joel can go out to Lake Minnetonka to pick it up. After last weekend of not being able to get the jetski into the water......well now that will never happen again! We are so excited.

Hope everyone is having a great summer .......talk to you all soon

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What a sucky Saturday :(

It is cold & rainy, but at least the wind isn't kicking up.....yet. Enjoying a quite weekend doing small projects around the house. Toilet is getting a new toilet seat (interesting fact: we have had to replace the toilet set after every Memorial weekend bash...huh!), fixing the slow draining bathroom sink, set up internet on the computer (hence why I'm blogging today), preparing for a garage sale here at the lake and planning the layout of the rooms in the basement. So not really much excitement around here.

After dinner, Jonathan & Jeromy are going to Northlakes Drive In for some ice cream and then go hang out at the bowling alley........I'm sure they are going on the prowl for chicks. Steve & Pam are coming over for a couple cocktails and to shoot the shit.

Hope everyone is enjoying their rainy Saturday.

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Lilly "The Dentist" Waage

We had a nice quiet weekend with rain Friday night, sun & wind Saturday and sun & wind Sunday. Overall it was a lovely weekend. After last weekend, we just took it easy and hung out with Rita. Joel & I purchased a 4 wheeled mobility scooter so Rita would be able to go for "walks" at the lake and that worked out quite nicely. Finn made a race course and was racing himself on the scooter. It's amazing he won every race. Joel finally after 2 years put his horseshoe pits in. Look out Wayde & Klaus.......he might even get some practice in before the horseshoe tournaments in July. Big Joe brought his friend, Christine to the lake this weekend. We didn't see much of either of them because they were in Hayward, WI for a pow wow. Christine entered a dancing expo for fun, so we were able to see 4 of her dancing dresses that were filled with indian beading that she does very beautifully. We didn't see Steve or Pam this weekend at all. We figure he thinks that if he comes over we will put him to work. HEY STEVE, COAST IS CLEAR........WORK IS ALL DONE FOR THE SUMMER! Now it is time to enjoy the lake :)

So here's a story for the books.......it is absolutely hilarious, now that it is over:

Rita came up to the lake for a nice relaxing weekend. We all arrived about 7:30pm and get everything settled. We decide to have a little cocktail or 2 and about 10:00 p.m., she decides to go to bed. It was a little cold for her, so heated up the bed in the guest room and plugged in a radio beside the bed, so that she would have something to do in the morning (she apparently is an early riser). I get up the next morning around 6:30 am so that I can go hang with her. I'm in the bathroom doing my hair and Joel is lying in bed. All of a sudden I hear him say "Shit" and I turn around to see him holding a set of teeth. After I shook off the disbelief, I realized they were Rita's teeth. I finish getting ready, grab the teeth & go racing downstairs to see what is going on. Big Joe is up and looking for Lilly. He saw her go racing out of the guest bedroom with something in her mouth. He didn't see where she had disappeared to. Well, we figured out very quickly what had happened. Lilly likes to check everybody out in the morning, so she raced into the guest bedroom where Rita was sleeping. Rita didn't take her teeth out, so when she fell asleep, her bottom teeth fell out. Well, Ms Lilly found them in the bed and figured she found a new play toy. She grabbed them and ran upstairs where she got back into bed with Joel and started chewing on them.......

So I put them on top of the refrigerator, because Rita obviously decided to sleep in. So around 8:00 am Rita shows up in the breezeway (Big Joe & I were having a cup coffee) in her nightgown & cane and "Good Morning". I look at her and asked if she was missing something and then went & got her teeth. She laughs and says "I didn't know Lilly was a dentist". You had to have been there......it was so funny, after we figured out that her teeth were still in working order and Joel & I weren't going to have to buy a set of teeth.

To all of you that come and stay with us in the guest bedroom........remember to put your teeth up on the dresser :)

This weekend Jonathan has his friend Jeromy coming, but other than that it appears to be another quiet weekend with nobody on the books to be joining Joel & I. So if you have an open weekend and want to toss in a quick get-away, give us a shout.

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Joel, Amy & Jonathan