1st half of June 2017

June 1: Eric went to work on the Ice Age trail for the day.

not sure what kind of moth this is but it was pretty

as I was taking the pictures of the moth this juvenile Bald Eagle flew overhead!

We celebrated Eric's birthday on the plane to Orlando Fl.  A last minute trip to Florida to attend the funeral of his Aunt Jane.  We flew down with Jenny, Ray met us at the hotel in Lakeland.

We enjoyed meeting up the the cousins, its been a long time since we seen all of them.  I forgot my camera at the hotel!!  I brought my small lens to take family pictures!!  but some of the cousins took pictures with their phones, my phone was at the hotel too!!

Eric and I did manage to get out for some walks.

pigs in the park??

cormorant guarding the mermaid

Florida birds:  Common Galunule with babies

 Limpkin

red faced Ibis

Florida Turtles

Wisconsin turtle..  a bit smaller

beautiful wild flower in Wisconsin.

Eric checking out cousin Linda's kayak for a future trip.  it was a little shaky at first but he got it to settle down.

 looks to be another great year for making blackberry jelly and syrup!

June 10:  cousins came over for a visit, lunch and games..

Cathy, Mike, Terri, Linda and Emmett

Terri, Linda, Dan, Ed and Emmett

Ed, Me, Eric and Emmett

the Guys agains the Girls

Dan was coaching the girls

Ed was refreee

needless to say the girls lost two games!  it was very hot and humid but we gave it our all...  next time..

Sunday June 11:  Really bad storms knocked out power out!  Luckily we have the generator!!

The wind was blowing so hard we actually had to get in the basement for a few minutes.  We lost about 10 trees down by the lake and some damage to the boardwalk but that was it!  The second storm brought hail and about 5 inches of rain.  Eric's brother Ray arrived at about 4 pm in-between the rain activity.  Eric made his mom's Meatloaf for dinner.

Ray gets addicted to the puzzle

Monday we are still out of power.  Beautiful day to take the pontoon out for a spin.  Needless to say the lake was just about empty.  It is nice to own the lake.  We had a great lunch at the Pioneer.

its a lot of work here in NW Wis, Ray had to take a nap...

Tuesday we are still out of power!!  so glad we have the generator.  Just as we were getting ready to leave for the day the Line Men showed up in our driveway!  When we returned home the power was on and the noisy generator was quiet.

our first Peony...

We went to Cumberland to visit with  Ray and Eric's Aunt Carol and Uncle and Bill Julson.  We had such a wonderful visit, we always have a fun time visiting with them, we really should do it more...

Wednesday May 14:  Ray headed to the Twin Cities while we took the RV in for repairs.