Liz went to the garden today to fetch a pail of peppers and found only one...

(if you don't double click this one, you must not be a gardener)

I took Sails Call out to the river (Lake Oahe) last week as part of a working/vacation. Yes I did work... however when my boss called I told him I was on a "sails call" and would get back to him later--- much later!

Maybe 40+ boats of all types and sizes. Since I travel here every other week for my job, I am thinking about leasing a slip for 2010 so I can use the boat alittle more often.

I was in a slip way at the end of the dock, probably 150 yards from shore. It is a deep water marina alright and the depth gauge on the boat read 99 ft.

Joe and Nancy included us in their whirlwind tour of the midwest. They became FAMILY to Ryan when he was stationed in their town in Washington and couldn't wait to meet his new wife Hillary on this trip. Thank you two for keeping us a part of your lives.

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This is our trip thru Lynn's "eyes"

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYNN

Always up for a celebration and never passes up a chance to be a fun grandma. This is Josie and yes that is Jett back there too.

Happy Birthday Malynda. Hope your birthday was celebrated in STYLE !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHANY ... every notice how people just like being NEXT to you?? ( Karl must be counting his lucky stars since we didn't give him any room anyway)

The trip to Superior for '09 included new crew on Sails Call since Liz decided not to sail this year. Barb, Lynn and Ray signed up early, prepared well, and made sure there were no dull moments... Lynn started the trip by handing each of us on the boat a white T-Shirt with the Sails Call logo printed on it, plus a personalized log book to record our thoughts. We never missed a happy hour and I think once we may have even started early! We were also joined by Jim and Janet Jensen our neighbors and hopefully now friends from Lake Pelican. They were in their Catalina 25 and named "Jim.n.I. Two days into the adventure we were also joined by our loyal sailing buddies Eilert and Mary Helm. They were on their McGreggar 20. We visited 5 islands and went to the top of the lighthouses, hiked lots of trails, met some interesting follow sailors and ate 'til the cows came home. You can get more detail if you click on the following.

Just giving this grill a test for next year since we had a failure with the one we used this year.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAWN

It was fun seeing you with your little family a few months back. Thank you for the work that you do for our COUNTRY.

This pair has been hanging out here for about a week, and probably want to get about the business of raising another brood.

This is NOT a dock.... We now have our own B-T-N and we are a long way from Alaska.

Long Winter

We went to visit this little guy a couple weeks ago in NC. Jake is 14 months and can get around like nobodys business!!

I think this was STORY (confession) night. These two daughters aren't so innocent after all...

Steph never let us get hungry

A favorite time for both these guys

Jake and Grampa B... together at last, and we made up for lost time!

We got wind!!!

Wind gusts up to 58mph lifted this 2200# boat off its trailer.

The mast missed the boat next to it by just inches... other wise it would have been "curtains" for something , either the mast itself or stuff on the deck boat.

Believe it or not the only thing that broke in all this is the bow eye.