It's been awhile since anyone has posted on the blog! Lets see if we can get going again........we had the family (less Brian's family and Spencer) here Christmas Eve. A little hectic, but nice to get everyone together. It was nice to see the snow, but worried a little about the family getting home. But everyone made it home safe! And from the reports I heard today - Santa made it okay last night, Ken and I even saw deer tracks in the driveway this morning when we went out to shovel.
I have the next couple days off, so I'm hoping to get some organizing done and maybe a little sewing.
So Merry Christmas to everyone, and a Happy New Year. I'm praying for a good 2014!
Now lets hear from everyone else..........
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Thursday, September 26, 2013
thanks
Just wanted to thank everyone for the kind words, prayers, emails, and calls this week. It is so important to stay close to family.
Love to all
Ann
Love to all
Ann
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Can you use?
Does anyone have a need or a use for a king size mattress pad? It was brought at Costco a few months ago, so almost new condition. Please let me know if interested
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
We are back from Vegas
Hi Everyone,
We are back from our week of vacation and Crabtree reunion in Las Vegas. We had a great time and were able to see my brothers and sisters, except for one who couldn't make it. We stayed at a resort-casino called "Sam's Town". It was an old hotel I believe, with a wonderful atmosphere and the people working there were great. There was a laser light show at night, and during the day time there was a pool for those wanting to use it, a bowling alley, arcade and of course the gambling. The kids were all busy with everything above except for the gambling.
We went to the Strip and to the M&M Store, Hard Rock Cafe and the Coca Cola store so everyone could do some shopping.
Here is a picture of my brother, Darrell putting some money into a box so that a mime(??) could do his little act. Really surprised him and us!
Guess that's about it for now. We are home for a couple of days and then off to Litchfield MN for the Minnesota Trapper Convention on Thursday.
Barb
We are back from our week of vacation and Crabtree reunion in Las Vegas. We had a great time and were able to see my brothers and sisters, except for one who couldn't make it. We stayed at a resort-casino called "Sam's Town". It was an old hotel I believe, with a wonderful atmosphere and the people working there were great. There was a laser light show at night, and during the day time there was a pool for those wanting to use it, a bowling alley, arcade and of course the gambling. The kids were all busy with everything above except for the gambling.
We went to the Strip and to the M&M Store, Hard Rock Cafe and the Coca Cola store so everyone could do some shopping.
Here is a picture of my brother, Darrell putting some money into a box so that a mime(??) could do his little act. Really surprised him and us!
This is a picture of the 6 of us who were there.
The order we were in is: John, Nona, Janet,
Diane, me, Darrell. We are missing my brother
Richard.
Barb
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Hello from Alaska
Hope everyone has a happy and safe 4th of July. We are still in Alaska and having a BLAST
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We went out of Deep Creek on Monday for some Halibut fishing. The seas were pretty rough, but we still managed to limit out. Tuesday we tried our hand at King Salmon and unfortunately struck out. From what we hear, the Kings just are not running like they used to and the game and fish department is at a loss as to what is going on. We did meet a very nice couple from Texas that were in the same boat as we were.
On Wednesday we had our float plane fly out to Wolverine Creek. We went sockeye fishing and did some bear viewing while we were there. The plane ride was spectacular, and the fishing was a BLAST. Sockeye salmon are a fighting machine when they get hooked. They FLY through the air...and I mean FLY. It was so much fun, it is on our must do again list. We tried our hand at Kings again today, and I did hook up with one, but it got off as I was bringing it in to the boat. The action was fast a furious there for a while.
Tomorrow is our last halibut trip, and we might try to sneak in some sockeye fishing on Saturday. Our guide told us to call him and he would see if he could squeeze us in.
I am posting some pictures from our trip so far.
The black bear had two cubs, but I just couldn't get a good picture of them. The brown bear had three and you can see at least two if you look at the picture really close. Bob and I are holding a couple of the sockeye that we caught, and that is a picture of the float plane that we flew on.
Bob and Julie
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We went out of Deep Creek on Monday for some Halibut fishing. The seas were pretty rough, but we still managed to limit out. Tuesday we tried our hand at King Salmon and unfortunately struck out. From what we hear, the Kings just are not running like they used to and the game and fish department is at a loss as to what is going on. We did meet a very nice couple from Texas that were in the same boat as we were.
On Wednesday we had our float plane fly out to Wolverine Creek. We went sockeye fishing and did some bear viewing while we were there. The plane ride was spectacular, and the fishing was a BLAST. Sockeye salmon are a fighting machine when they get hooked. They FLY through the air...and I mean FLY. It was so much fun, it is on our must do again list. We tried our hand at Kings again today, and I did hook up with one, but it got off as I was bringing it in to the boat. The action was fast a furious there for a while.
Tomorrow is our last halibut trip, and we might try to sneak in some sockeye fishing on Saturday. Our guide told us to call him and he would see if he could squeeze us in.
I am posting some pictures from our trip so far.
The black bear had two cubs, but I just couldn't get a good picture of them. The brown bear had three and you can see at least two if you look at the picture really close. Bob and I are holding a couple of the sockeye that we caught, and that is a picture of the float plane that we flew on.
Bob and Julie
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Family Reunion 2013
So many have other plans for Saturday, June 29th that we will be cancelling the family reunion in Lanesboro this year. Hopefully the last Saturday in June will work out better next year! Hope everyone is doing well and that most of us will see each other September 7th at Crystal and Derek's wedding or at Spencer's barbeque July 6th.
Ann and Linda
Ann and Linda
Friday, June 21, 2013
Wyoming News
Hello from Wyoming.
It has been a while since I had anything to post on here. It has been a pretty strange spring/summer here. We went fishing one weekend with the temps hanging around 70 and the next weekend had 6 foot snow drifts in front of the boat barn. After that it seemed like it stayed snowy and cold for a long time with the temps just finally warming up the last couple of weeks. Now, the wind is blowing. Seems like I can't get anything done on the yard after work because the wind is blowing 30+ mph. We did manage to get some fishing in at Grey Rocks last Saturday. The fishing was slow, Bob was catching some bass, and a few small walleye. I had caught one really small walleye and had thrown him back. Then, something BIG decided to bite. It took me about 15 to 20 minutes to get this bad boy into the boat. Bob did a great job of netting him for me, and I was shaking by the time he got in the boat. This is the biggest walleye I have ever caught. Bob has caught a couple this size, but my biggest to date. We weighed and measured him when we got home, and he weighed 7.4 pounds and was 27 3/4 inches long. (Bob says it was all excellent boat placement and superior netting skills.)
Unfortunately, no fishing for us this weekend, Bob has to work Saturday morning, and I have to concentrate on getting packed for vacation. We fly out of Denver at about 10:30 next Saturday night, and will be gone until July 7th. We are really looking forward to this vacation, one of our fishing trips is a combo salmon fishing and bear viewing. We will fly out on a float plane to one of the silver salmon fishing stream and after a few hours of fishing we will do some bear viewing. I am thinking we might be competing with the bears for the fish. We also will do two halibut fishing trips out of Deep Creek, and two king salmon trips on the Kenai River. Hope the kings are running!
Bob and Julie
It has been a while since I had anything to post on here. It has been a pretty strange spring/summer here. We went fishing one weekend with the temps hanging around 70 and the next weekend had 6 foot snow drifts in front of the boat barn. After that it seemed like it stayed snowy and cold for a long time with the temps just finally warming up the last couple of weeks. Now, the wind is blowing. Seems like I can't get anything done on the yard after work because the wind is blowing 30+ mph. We did manage to get some fishing in at Grey Rocks last Saturday. The fishing was slow, Bob was catching some bass, and a few small walleye. I had caught one really small walleye and had thrown him back. Then, something BIG decided to bite. It took me about 15 to 20 minutes to get this bad boy into the boat. Bob did a great job of netting him for me, and I was shaking by the time he got in the boat. This is the biggest walleye I have ever caught. Bob has caught a couple this size, but my biggest to date. We weighed and measured him when we got home, and he weighed 7.4 pounds and was 27 3/4 inches long. (Bob says it was all excellent boat placement and superior netting skills.)
Unfortunately, no fishing for us this weekend, Bob has to work Saturday morning, and I have to concentrate on getting packed for vacation. We fly out of Denver at about 10:30 next Saturday night, and will be gone until July 7th. We are really looking forward to this vacation, one of our fishing trips is a combo salmon fishing and bear viewing. We will fly out on a float plane to one of the silver salmon fishing stream and after a few hours of fishing we will do some bear viewing. I am thinking we might be competing with the bears for the fish. We also will do two halibut fishing trips out of Deep Creek, and two king salmon trips on the Kenai River. Hope the kings are running!
Bob and Julie
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