Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Memorial Day Week(end)

Holy moly, this was an 11 day island marathon that started with a bang. I was on vacation and had the party crew up for the weekend followed by the walleye crew and then Memorial day weekend with the family.

I did make it out on the boat one evening for some fishing. Here is a photo looking back at the Kelleys Island public beach.

Kelleys Island Beach from boat

I caught my first walleye on Wednesday night.

walleye - nice!

Sunset from boat looking west at Perry's monument - Put-In-Bay

sunset

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we worked on staining the deck. This was a big job and took much longer than expected.

Deck stained

On Thursday, Tim and me worked on installing a center beam in the crawlspace. Not very fun at all.

Big Tim - crawlspace work 

Bonnie and the kids came up on Friday. I missed them all very much and we had a great weekend with awesome weather.

Bon and the kids

Me and the kids

I need a few days to recover and I'm ready for more island time

Monday, May 9, 2016

Mother's Day Weekend

Got the whole family up to the island for Mother's Day Weekend. I was able to plan nine trees on Saturday morning while be waited for Bob and Judy to arrive. The rest of the family came up on Sunday morning.

first trees planted!

Here are the 4 "Crimson King" maple trees along the road. This is the first actual landscaping done at the cottage, much more to go. On Sunday, the family celebrated Mother's Day. The kids had a blast running wild all day long.

Happy mother's day!

My family