The trip back up north on Tuesday evening was relatively uneventful. We are planning to meet some of my family at Big Rock Resort on Leech Lake in a couple of weeks so we decided we would take a side trip and check it out. The resort looked fine but my GPS seemed to be having issues when I put in the cabin as our destination when we left the resort. While the mileage was about 50 miles, the travel time was about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Well, it turns out that 50 miles did take 1 hour and 10 minutes, so I obviously had forgotten how the roads wind and twist and turn up here!
Yesterday (Thursday) evening, we had multiple guests watching a basketball game in the lodge. One of them was making pheasant for dinner but it apparently was not ready when the game started. Another of the guests overed a pizza (the small frozen kind) that all of them shared, which was fairly obviously only an appetizer when shared by 5 men. At about the end of the first quarter, the guy cooking dinner left the lodge to go back to the cabin and when one of the other guys went to check on him and get some pheasant, he found out that the cook (whose perceptions were perhaps a bit impacted by alcohol consumption) had thrown out the pheasant because the one guy had ordered the pizza! Wow...what a waste of good pheasant and a waste of good brains cells!
K and I had to run to Deer River today as she needed to get a license for the pontoon (yes, we did find one for those of you who knew we were looking for one) and we needed some groceries. We stopped at a garage sale right off the road and that, of course, just whetted our appetite for garage sales! So, when we saw another garage sale sign on a dirt road, we decided it probably wasn't far to the sale. Well, that was not quite a correct assumption to make up north but the drive was beautiful! The trees are multiple shades of green and yellow as the leaves come out and there was a really cool creek with tree trucks sticking out of it. K and I both said that we need to have Bill come back and see about taking a picture. After a much longer drive than we anticipated, we finally found the garage sale and they were selling paving stones...which we just happen to need for our water tank! Since I am not really familiar with what we need, Bill gets to make the drive tomorrow morning to see if he wants them and can check out the creek for picture material!
We have seen a woodchuck a couple of times and we now believe that he is living in our culvert!! While this does mean that skunks will not live there (which we believe may have happened in the past), we are also not so excited about this. Bill is trying to decide what we do about this so stay tuned!! :-)
Tonight we are heading back to the resort after dinner to hang out and make rhubarb crunch. Tomorrow, my sister, Mary, and her husband are coming up to plant flower gardens. We will be doing the planting either between or during the rain, so we are praying for some breaks in the rain!!
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