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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