Sunday on the Boat

Today was our first time to take the boat out with all the kids. Luckily the weather cooperated, it was so beautiful out there. It was so hot and humid I think that on the boat was the only way we could have enjoyed the day!

Tommy and Dave drove the boat most of the day, but somehow I only got a photo of Savannah while she was driving.
Ha, bathing beauties. Cute how our swim suits match. Good job Char!
Sugar treats...not sure that was such a good idea...

Getting ready to swim.

We anchored at a sand bar and spent most of the afternoon there.


Nice looking couple!
In case you were wondering how the tattoo turned out....

Twisted Sisters 2008

There are 9 children in Dave's mom's family. Of that, 6 are girls. Every year for many, many years the girls all get together at a place sponsored by one of them, either up in northern Wisconsin (as most of the family lives either in Menomonee, in Janesville, or Oconomowoc) or down here. This year it was in Oconomowoc. Kim sponsored it and made all the arrangements. She did a fantastic job. Friday night we all met for fish fry and Fiddler on the Roof at the Kettle Moraine High school. Saturday morning we all met and drove down to Genesee Depot for the Ten Chimney's Estate. You can take full tours of the estate which are about 2 hours long and go throughout the 60 acre estate.

It is the estate of Alfred Lund and Lynn Fontanne.
This is the sitting room of the ladies room!!!
You can go backstage of a real stage. There are props, clothes, lights. It is so beautiful.
More of the bathroom. It was our favorite room. The phone actually works and is available for local calls!

Walking to the parking lot is beautiful.
They have a wonderful gift shop. This feathery hat was my favorite thing there! Only a tiny bit over a hundred dollars!



In between we drove down to the Elegant Farmer for a train ride to East Troy and lots of good food. I brought home apple pie!

Back to Duane and Kim's. Here is a table of desserts.... Thanks Auntie Esther! Roxie made her lovely triffle again!
Mom had a happy visitor!
Thanks Duane for cooking a fabulous dinner.Kim and Honey.
Eleanore, Margaret, Esther, Jean and Missy. Missy was a great help for Mom with Dad not here. She got her up all those stairs at the train depot.
Dave and Terry, Lois and Cathy.
Breakfast tomorrow at Olympia and then someone has to start planning for next year. It will be up north somewhere.....

Summer on the Lake

Dave is way too good to me! I think he would rather not boat than buy a pontoon boat, but he knows I love boating on a pontoon. We bought a used boat and some friends had told us about a lady who rents out some of her land for a dock near our home, on Lac LaBelle. Today Dave picked up the boat and we tried her out, oh, I was in heaven!!!! Thank you Dave!
See, he is even smiling as he tells me how slow this boat is...
This is the lake lot where we are keeping the boat. The owner feeds the ducks so there are alot of them all over the yard. Luckily we are parked over on the side of the yard so we don't have to disturb them.....
We needed to install some pipes to tie the boat up too. Al came and gave us a hand. Thanks, Al.

Happy 76th Birthday Mom

Happy Birthday Mom! She loves blue so Dave found some beautiful blue flowers in a vase, her other favorite thing, flowers!
Missy, Gina, Roxie and Mom eating lasagna. It was fun to sit and visit.
Al and Jessica.
Time for birthday cake and candles. We had a wonderful chocolate cake and fruit triffle from Roxie! She always outdoes herself.
Great Grandma got lots of help blowing out the candles!
Can you tell who is mother and who is Daughter??? Here is Gina dressing up her favorite dog Zeus. He doesn't look too happy with the pink boa!! Gina stayed over night, for the last time for awhile as her and Ben are moving to Indiana (boo for us...), but happy for them of course. While we were eating breakfast we had a nice surprise, Clint called.

HA! Dave got caught sneaking food to Zeus..

Tattoo Shop

For years Dave has talked about getting a tattoo. In the beginning it was going to be a small shark on his leg. Now it has turned into a bat, on his arm. Anyway, he, Gina and Rox have talked about doing this together. They knew of a good shop in Madison so we made our stop to talk to the artists. If you know me, you know this was my first stop in a tattoo shop, and most likely my last.
Here is Dave and Gina talking with Dave about what my Dave wants on his body.... And making an appointment for next week. Sorry Dave, didn't mean to embarrass you.

Madison Art Fair with Gina and Roxie

Since Gina and Ben will be moving soon to Terra Haut, Indiana, we planned a play day with her. We wanted to go to the Farmer's Market in Madison, but this week was the Art Fair. Since Gina really wanted her Madison fix, we went up and walked the square and looked at all the expensive art.
This is Dave (and Rox) waiting for Gina. She had driven up from Chicago.
What is a visit without eating! We walked and enjoyed a beautiful morning. But we had another stop to make....

Eagle River

Dave promised to take me up to the northwoods this summer. I thought it would be fun to make it enjoyable for both of us and suggested we drive the motorcycle. We left about 8:30 Saturday morning. We had a wonderful drive...stopping twice. The bed and breakfast was as beautiful as promised. We enjoyed a short time of beautiful fresh clean air and blue sky..... It was short lived and before long the sky opened up and we could hardly see the lake!
Dave missed his Gunner and Zeus but there was this nice big wolf to keep him company.
Here is the lake side of the bed and breakfast (on the left) and the new house they are renting out on the right.
Here is the front side. Saturday morning after a delicious breakfast (although we have had better) the sky was blue as could be so we decided to head out on our ride. We drove to Minocqua and shoppped. Up to Sayner, Conover and up to Land O' Lakes and the upper peninsula of Michigan.
We had a delicious lunch at a little cafe in Land O Lakes. As we drove south back to Eagle River the sky was really dark! Somehow we lucked out and never got wet! After we arrived back in our room, again it rained! But that also was short lived and after a dinner ride to Three Lakes we came back and had a bon fire.

Ahh, I love the northwoods. Thanks Dave!