4th of July 2025

 We had heat 90+, humidity, rain, storms and crazy wind, then Sunday came... no wind, sunny and 83+F picture perfect on the day we go home. 

The end of another fun 4th with the kids and their friends! 

July 1st - photo dump

 Zoey's favorite place to sleep on Don's massage table, up high! 

We had a crab boil night 

Kayaking on Lake Marion and doing a little fishing too. 

Under the highway! 

Out on the lawn relaxing. 

Monday June 30th Mocktails on the deck. 

Sauk Weekend

We headed for the lake this weekend on Thursday afternoon. It was going to be a 90 degree weekend. 

We had 2 storm systems come through early Friday morning. One at 11pm on Thursday and the larger one at 2:30/3am Friday morning! There was a ton of lightening, so we had pre-planned to go to the truck and wait it out. We did get to sleep for a bit before the 2nd round came though. Again we went to the truck. This time, tons of lightning, high wind that lifted the truck and shook it, some hail. It knocked down both tents and soaked all inside. Our clothes and half of our air mattress was dry, so after the storm I was able to sleep in the tent. We had to wait till morning to dry all out. We took out everything and scooped out about 40 buckets of water from the large dark out tent. The next day we went to town and there were big huge trees knocked down all in town, boat lifts upside down. Glad we missed the worst of the storm as the park is now closed. Trees fell on the storm shelter/bathrooms and crushed the roof. We were sooo lucky! Should have drove out of the woods during the storm! 

All calm and quiet the rest of the time. Another big storm system missed us and went North, that one killed 3 people and did a whole lot more damage! YIKES!!!

We had a really nice sunset Saturday night. 

The storm!

 

Father's Day 2025

This was the exact car my dad had back in the 70's. My childhood. A green Impala. The heater would make a turkey sound when turned on. 

We all meet up in Hastings for the Car show. Walked around then had some beers at the brewery in town while we sat outside. After we all drove to Prescott and had dinner by the river. 

Steve and his dad looking at cars. 

I should have taken a photo of the kids with Steve. 

Happy Father's Day!

                                                       Happy Father's Day Steve!!

Rose Bushes & Misc Photo's from our summer

 Our front rose bush has a bumper crop of flowers this summer. 

Mocktails on our patio

Shrimp next to the St. Croix river 

Drinks also by the river 

Trying a little St Croix shore river fishing