Monthly Archives: June 2011

We’re up at the crack of dawn to join a birdwatching walk at Bearhead State Park, it’s just a few miles off Mud Creek Road, but we’ve never been there. We’re in the Bayliner at 6:10 and we get to … Continue reading →

Lynn and Bill Overland are coming to dinner tonight – we had joined them for dinner at their cabin a couple of days ago and we want to get together again before they have to leave. We have plenty of … Continue reading →

We spend today with old and new friends as well as more communing with Momma Nature.  We’ve been invited for breakfast to Steve and June Keibler’s who have a beautiful log house a couple of miles east of us along … Continue reading →

Our initial trip back to Ely was on Monday, and our first stop was at the public library to use their free wifi and for Jan to pick up her week’s worth of reading.  But our library card has gone … Continue reading →

Today we begin reconnecting with Mother Nature.  Jan is planning on spending a lot of time while we’re up here with dirt under her fingernails, she’s a happy camper even just getting the front yard under control. A Yellow Bellied … Continue reading →

Not quite at the crack of dawn we’re heading north again.  Our two-hour trip to the cabin takes us through Virginia, the county seat of St. Louis County, which includes Lake Vermilion.  The region’s economic foundation for many years has … Continue reading →

We’ve left Evergreen Park and gotten on the road to LakeVermilion, but it’s a ten-hour drive and we decided to break it and spend the night in Duluth.  One of the Subaru’s cool features is that it continuously reports cumulative … Continue reading →

Finally we find a moment to go over to Western Avenue for an authentic Rainbow Cone, complete with orange sherbet, pistachio, Palmer House (Venetian vanilla with cherries & walnuts), strawberry and chocolate.  NYDQ!  That is: “Not your Dairy Queen”. We … Continue reading →

In the afternoon we drive down to Orland Park to visit Jan’s cousin Tom and his wife Patte, we tour their antique filled home, meet their two dogs, and they take us for a lovely dinner at a nearby restaurant/winery, … Continue reading →

Being retired, on vacation, or whatever it is we are, we seem to find it harder to get up at the crack of dawn these days.   But today we get a fairly early start and drive up to Millennium Park … Continue reading →