Mike's Lamp Is Done except...

I have to buy a lampshade to match it better.

We don't have to shower downstairs anymore!

More Beautiful Woodwork From Mike

Vases, lampbase and pen/pencil holder...

Where Oh Where Did My Vacuum Cleaner Belts Go....

To my talented husband of course...putting scrap wood to better use than using it for our woodstove!

Fishing In The Trees

Mike and I went out fishing for an hour and 1/2 and caught these nice sunnies...fish fry tonight!

We are deer killers again!

After driving 825 miles with no problems today...we met a herd of deer on highway in Indiana. Car ahead of us hit one too.

A Week On The Ice

My old 24 year old Si-Tex did as well as the Vexilar!

Brianne got worn out from following Mikey with the minnow bucket.

Sunset on O'Leary Lake.

Mike snowmobiled 30 miles to see how well we were doing on this lake...he was glad we had some hot chocolate! We then all met up and had a burger at Swampsider's.

Some of our Saturday night fish fry. Mike Hexum came over to enjoy the feast as well.

Brianne finally getting to fish...

Mikey and I hit Blue Lake early in the week and caught a mess of nice sunnies.

Heck with games...

I jinxed myself on my last post...I forgot about the two Mikes in this family... especially the son who would fish till his dying days...that Mike and his Mike the dad...would go looking for another lake they could get stuck in the slush on...I didn't want to join in on that fun and had too many loads of laundry to deal with. First time I saw that old Mike excited about ice fishing his son's method when those guys came home! Frozen fingers again...not using fish house! They nailed the big crappies! O Freddie the Filet Knife this time! Fantastic fish fry at our house tonight or I'll give bad reviews to our chef! Not!

Picture Fun!

Emily posted on her blog a picture game that I like! You are supposed to post the 4th picture in the 4th file of your pictures in your computer and describe the picture. This is pic was taken last spring of Carly when she and I were crappie fishing off our dock. No belly pics here! :) And I'm sure glad I don't have to clean those today!

We tried...

Emily and I tried ice fishing in our neighbor's ice shack. Last week this was the hot spot for large sunnies and northerns. Well we didn't do so well Saturday. Only 7 sunfish and 5 crappies. Emily did catch a tree about 4 times. Neighbor warned us about that hole as he has around 10 lures lost to it as well.

Back On Blue!

Mike and I took our neighbor out ice fishing on Blue Lake this morn. The old guy has been so itching to get out and ice fish. Since most of the lakes around here including ours have serious slush problems it has been difficult to fish. In fact, Mike managed to get two of our snowmobiles stuck in the middle of our lake last night. Andy helped get both out...one last night and the other this afternoon.

First...we decided to try Mikey's nightmarish backwoods route to the lake. (I can't believe he took Brianne down that trail !!!) my thoughts...I was in back seat and no way to get out of truck but did keep my mouth shut (my wide eyeballs might have been seen by Mike in rear view mirror)...so we backed up and drove another 15 minutes back nightmare trail to the main access. We went out on lake as far as well-travelled trail took us and then set up lines. This area was definitely not like our "Honey Hole" but Mike was able to catch 2 northerns and lost more of course to the trees. I was panfishing and didn't have the touch today...I needed Mikey's girlfriend Brianne's anger to catch them I guess. Charlie caught a few perch. Tomorrow we (Mike) are hauling Charlie's shack out to that lake so Charlie can drive out himself to do more fishing. You should see this guy with his diamond willow cane with ice pick bottom in that snow-packed ice! I was a nervous wreck!

Ice Fishing Again!

Mike, Mikey and I drove up to Red Lake today. It wasn't a hot bite but we managed to catch around 10 fish. We kept one wallhanger crappie that Mikey caught and 5 walleyes that were under 17 inches. There is a slot on that lake where all walleyes between 17 and 26 inches have to be released back into the water so our nice 18 1/2 inchers took our minnows and took a dive back down the holes.