closet

This is a picture of my clothes in the closet after Jen, my daughter-in-law organized it.   It will never look this good again!

First quilt

This is Joy's first quilt made with alot of love for grandson Alec.  Also made a matching pillow case.  It was fun.

Healthy Cooking Solutions

Joy co-ordinated 2 healthy cooking classes sponsored by our church, "The Shepherds House."  Ed is making taco soup.  Joy lectured on heart disease, the number 1 killer.  About 45 people attended and everyone wants to know when another class will be held.

Fall Fest

Our church had a first annual fall fest.  I won the donate eating contest.  Ed hurt his tailbone and heel when he got dunked into the tank!

Trick or Treat

We enjoyed going with the grandkids for trick or treat

Joy's Mom's 92nd birthday

Ed and I drove up north to Spooner and helped mom celebrate her 92nd birthday.  She says she doesn't have an ache or pain in her body!

Decorated Weiners

Maria, our granddaughter, decorated our 2 weiner dogs for her dad's 34th birthday.

First watermelon

Picked the first watermelon I ever grew in the garden.  The grandkids helped eat it.

Birthday boy

Ed and I helped our youngest son Bob celebrate his 34th birthday.  After we had a big 4 man hug.

Trip to visit Mom

Left Ed a week and went to northern WI to visit my mom in the Spooner Nursing home.  Shown are myself and an old friend Joyce Ginsel whom I haven't seen in 20 years or so.  She and her husband gave me a ride from Rice Lake to Spooner.  I got a ride to Rice Lake from a gal from our church in Wausau and knew Joyce attended Rice Lake so called her and asked about a ride 1/2 hour up the road and she graciously offered to take me!  My mom and I are in the next picture singing songs at the Bible Study in the nursing home. I think we were the only ones singing!  The last picture of the big guy was someone at the nursing home who looked just like my brother Dave.  Every time mom saw him she would say "There goes Dave."

Record Northern

Sept 3 Ed caught the biggest Northern Pike of his life on an ultra lite rod.  It is almost 36".  He was by himself and had to reel it in and net it himself.  He was just a little excited.

Labor Day

Went to Milwaukee for Aunt Mary and Aunt Nancy's Labor Day party-they are shown in the pictures getting the food ready.

campfire

Carm, Ed's mom, stayed a week with us and her last night we had a campfire and roasted marshmellows.

apples

We picked all the apples off the 2 apple trees and made apple juice.  The grandkids enjoyed them too!

Company

Our friends from CA and Idaho came visiting.  They had already driven 8000 miles!  The 2 in the middle are sisters:  Sadie and Louise.  Sam and John are the husbands.

Winter project

We had 2 full cords of wood delivered.  Ed and I built a frame first and it took us about 3 hours to stack all the wood in it...we were a little tired after that.

Garden tomatoes

First tomatoes and first tomato salad of the season

Peaches

This is a bushel of peaches after a half day of work canning them-a thing of beauty!

Carrot cake

I baked this carrot cake from scratch using carrots from my garden-now aren't you impressed!  It was Jen's birthday-my daughter-in-law.

High school friend

My friend from grade and high school came a visiting, Nancy. We took a boat ride up the little Eau Pleine River and tried to I.D everyone in our 5th grade class-we remembered about half of the 50 kids in our class.

The Fair

Attended the Marathon county fair where there were alot of cows-this is Wisconsin you know!  Shown are Ed and I and our son, Bob, and wife, Jen.

Ed was on the roof today adding a gutter shield so this fall the leaves will slide right over our gutters (hopefully.)

John Deere rides

Don't worry, Ed is Mr Safety.  The grandkids all love riding on the Deere with grandpa

Enjoying the lake with friends and fam

Brian and Maria, grandpa Ed and Maria and Ben and Maria with Eric, who has a neat haircut.

garden glory

Ben and me shown in front of the killer tomato plants and corn which is 7 feet now!  Hope the coons or deer don't get it.  

Lost pole

Maria wanted to fish so I made her a cane fishing pole.  However, we put it in the pole holder and went inside and when we came back it was gone!  Some fish must've bit on the worm and taken off with it.  Also shown our son, Jeff, who purchased his own fishing rod and reel for the lake to the tune of $200!

Raspberries!

My neighbor was gone a few days and asked me if I'd like to pick her raspberries.  The kids and I had a blast.  Nothing was made from these as the kids divided and ate them all!

Garden bounty

Shown are the first pickles and squash.  The squash looks like a pumpkin but is suppose to have a fabulous taste-hope that's true because my favorite squash is butternut and I don't want to regret not planting it.

An outing

2 sons-Bob and Mike and families and us visited Dells of the Eau Claire River-a very scenic area in Wisconsin

Love It!

I LOVE living on the lake.  As bad as last winter was, it was all worth it.  This has been the best summer of my life in every way-the weather has been near perfect here in good old Wisconsin with day temps in the low 80's and night in the low 60's-can't beat it.

I also have been enjoying the best garden of my gardening career!

3 sons together

Our 3 sons were together for the first time in a year and a half at our home in July.  Shown are Jeff, Mike and Bob playing pool in the basement.

Best garden ever!

Grandkids Grant and Maria enjoy eating peas in the garden.