Daily Photo: The Sky is Falling

Sept 5th - Hillcrest Country Club, Adel, IA

Sept 5th – Only my dad would want to go golfing with thunder and lightening in the sky. Actually, he’ll go golfing anytime during the year if he could. Crazy golfers! My stepmom, sister and I joined him and I ducked out from the cover of the golf carts to snap a couple pictures of the sky. Crazy and beautiful all at the same time.

Does anyone else but me think that Bob Ross is painting skys in Heaven?

Daily Photo: I’m Going to Squish You

Sept 4th - Clark Tower, Winterset, IA

Sept 4th – this is my little sister, I like this picture cause she looks super small.  She’s only slightly shorter than me.  Poor Rachie, it was her birthday and we walked about two miles to this tower.  She was not impressed and neither was I.  No fireworks shooting out the top.

Daily Photo: John Freakin’ Wayne

Sept 4th - Winterset, IA

Sept 4th – Look who I got to meet over the weekend. He’s a real gentleman, a real nice guy. Tipped his hat and said how do you do ma’am. And then he walked off into the sunset all cool like.

A Funny from the Weekend…

Okay, so I visited my dad, stepmom and baby sister over the weekend and this exchange took place:

Dad had bought a bag of licorice and was trying to open it while driving.  Stepmom opened it for him and gave it back.  Dad put said bag on the floor of the vehicle between them.  A piece of candy fell out onto the carpet and Stepmom put it back into the bag.

Me: “You put the fuzzy piece back in the bag?”

Dad: “You put the fuzzy piece back in the bag!”

Stepmom: ” Yes, it’s not like you’d know the difference anyway.”

I love my stepmom.

Okay, I’m a little miffed…

I had a date tonight, which was fine until the guy reached for the check, said I got this one, but turned out he didn’t and I had to pay.  Kicker, he leaned in for a kiss after he walked me to my car.  Very classy.

Daily Photo: Frog in a Bottle

Aug 23rd - Are you going to let me go?

Aug 23rd – I found this frog on my deck. I love frogs, I got really excited when I saw him. No, really excited. I started to entertain the thought of having a frog for a pet, but the I worried that I, or one of my cats would kill him. So I let him go. I think he’s happier this way. At least I hope he is.

Daily Photo: Water, water everywhere…

Aug 22nd-Jay Cooke State Park

Aug 22nd – I took this at Jaye Cooke State Park, by Carlton, MN. I like taking shots where I can play around with the shutter speed. I like that the water looks foamy. If you have a chance to go to Jay Cooke, take it. It is beautiful!

Daily Photo x 2…again

Okay, so once again I forgot to post yesterday, so here’s two pictures to placate you:

Aug21st - Red Birch

Aug 21st – this is from my second day at Lake Vermillion, we stopped at an island (I think it was an island) for lunch after fishing all morning.  The area we stopped was full of these Red Birch trees.  I love birch trees and these were just beautiful.

Aug21st - Rainbow

Aug 21st – it’s really hard to hear people when the boat is going fast.  My friend JK kept pointing behind me and shouting “Look at the Rainbow”.  It took her a little while for me to get it.  It’s pretty, don’t you think?

Daily Photo: Chains

Ch-Ch-Chains

Aug 20 – These are the chains that connect the boat trailer to my friend’s truck. We had just dropped the boat in the water and I drove the truck and the trailer to the airport parking, slowly. Hey, he’s got a nice truck! Then I wait for him to trek on over so he can back the truck and trailer in by the cabin.

Lake Vermillion – Day 1

A friend of mine has a cabin up at Lake Vermillion, right outside of Tower.   This is were I spent my weekend.  We did this last year, you can see the post here.  Only this time there were only three of us.

Hoodoo Point, Tower, Minnesota

The cabin is on the Southern end the lake, just outside of Tower, MN.  We made a couple stops along the way.  In Cloquet, we stopped at Sammy’s Pizza.  They have a pizza buffet that is really good.  They make three different pizzas at a time, but the go fast.  My favorite was the Sausage.  The also have a salad buffet.  I think the only bad thing was I didn’t get a picture.  I kind of slept on the way up.  I get motion sickness pretty bad if I’m not driving, and I found that if I was sleeping I didn’t feel so sick.

F&D Meats

Our next stop was in Virginia, MN.  There is a meat store there that my friend JR always stops at on his way up to the cabin. It’s smells like meat in there.

It's smells like meat in here!

The meat is pretty cheap here, we usually get sausage of some kind for breakfast and sliced meat for sandwiches. This time we got some Porketta sausages, Garlic sausages, Apple Cinnamon sausages and a Porketta steak. All where really good. We also got some bread and chips for lunches.

The Palatial Palace

Once we go to the cabin, which my friend refers as a Palatial Palace but it’s only a trailer home, we have some stuff that needs to get done. We need to open the windows, no one is there during the week and it gets a little stuffy. We also have to get the boat all gassed up.

Auto Shot Off does not work

We stopped at a gas station in Tower for that, I had a little laugh over this sign. I also got my Fishing License here. $18 later, I was legally able to fish. After getting the boat gassed, we need to get it in the water, and I get to help with that. Well, I only get to drive JR’s truck back to the cabin, but that’s still helping.

The Wake

And after getting the boat in the water, we got to take it out for a drive. That’s the fun part, flying along the water, the spray from the wake flying up at you as you go along.

Brewski

As long as your in the boat, mind you safely and not over doing anything, it may be time for a brewski.

The Ugly Stick

It is also most certainly time for fishing…and that is what we did. Too bad the only thing caught the first day was a crawfish, but we had better luck Saturday.