Friday, August 1, 2014

Today everyone was slow going.  We met everyone at 9:30am for a group picture.  At 1pm we loaded the float boat with three kayaks and headed to Piskegomang.   It took us 50 minutes to get out there.  Alan, Scott, and Hannah all met us out there in the new boat.  Mom and Hannah kayaked in Mom’s kayak and Scott and I each in our own.  We started down Piskegomang and quickly found a detour.  We headed down that detour and the water started to get kind of gross so we finally turned around.  It was beautiful and peaceful.  Scott and I paddled all the way into the lake at the other end.  Mom and Hannah turned around when we were almost there.  We met them back at the float boat.  We got everything loaded but Dad had taken the key with he and Alan on the other boat.  They showed up shortly and we switched back to original boats and headed out.  It took us 45 minutes to get from there back to the dock.  The other boat fished for a little while before they came back.  Bridget had a delicious fish dinner made.  I took a bath and grilled some chicken for those of us who did not want fish.  Then Mom and Bridge quickly cleaned up for our dessert party with Groves.  Hannah and I had to arrange the brownies and cookies - Nana said it looked crappy and we had to start all over again!  At least she gave us a bigger plate this time.  Dessert was really nice, it was one of the first times we all got to really visit.  I got the teenage girls going on a domino game and then sat with Scott, John, Kim, and Bridget.

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Hannah and Bridget come today!! I’ve missed them so much!  I just hope I’m better by then.  My throat hurts worse than ever but I feel a little better.  I was up every hour last night.  Scott, Bob, and Jason left around 8:15 to go to Three Towers to fish.   I definitely have a cold, I break out into a sweat just walking to the restroom and I’m gasping for air.  I didn’t eat until lunch.  Mom whipped up some potato soup so I had a small bowl of that and a slither of blueberry buckle from Kim and John.  I did my Bible study and then started to clean up our walking closet.  Then I helped Mom make the chili for tonight - a tradition when people are arriving.  Then washed my sheets so I wouldn’t give myself a cold again.  The fishermen came back around 1pm.  Scott ate lunch and then took me out to Eagle Island to get some cool eagle pictures.  Now he and Mom are staining the front of the cabin and I’m working on cleaning up the camper.  Alan, Bridget, Hannah, and Jake showed up around 7pm.  It was good to see them all.  We took Jake down to the water and he tried to chase a duck - it was quite the show.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Woke up with a sore throat, but still went in to do our Bible study and mom had a plan.  I was going to kayak to Connaught Point and she and Scott would take turns going with me while Dad fished on the flatboat.      Dad had an even better idea, he said I should paddle to Piskagamong.  I was stoked.  I convinced them that I should paddle to three towers by myself and made it out there in about a half hour.  They were fishing and had caught a couple of perch.  Jason and Lennox followed in Bob’s boat.  I got out there and rested because it had been a rough paddle through the waves.  Then I started to head to Canoe Narrows.  I heard a shout and Mom was in Scott’s kayak on her way toward me.  I waited and we paddled from tip of Canoe Island to the Indian Drawings.  Dad and Scott showed up.  I told mom the next part would be rough and they should let me do it alone but she got up and Scott got in.  We paddled to the Back Channel to the tip of Boat Island and then Dad said we had to quit pretty soon because there wasn’t enough gas.  I was pretty disappointed.  Mom and Scott switched and we headed back down the Back Channel along Boat Island.  Mom was convinced we would make it to Connaught Point but I don’t think she remembered how long Boat Island is.  It was a rough paddle against the wind and the waves were not big enough to be useful.  We basically just paddled really slow until the guys caught up.  I was afraid the open water just before the Point would be too rough for her to paddle.  We got up on the float boat and loaded the kayaks and headed home.  We didn’t run out of gas until we hit Eagle Island, but we had just enough in the other tank to get home.  Mom and I took baths while Scott and Dad went to Deer Trail for gas and to talk walleye holes with Richard.  I laid out on the dock and Scott laid in the float boat and we read for an hour or so.  By the time we went up I was not feeling good.  I don’t know if it was a cold, dehydration, too much sun… so I just went to bed.  Mom made dinner and fixed the fish.  I didn’t think that I could eat, but I tried a couple slices of beet.  It was good, but I couldn’t eat any more.  I got my Eagle Lake map out and figured I had paddled about 9 miles.  Dad had bleeding issue again.  We prayed and I went to bed and everyone else went to Jeff’s for Blueberry Buckle.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Woke up around 6pm and it’s 62 degrees but if feels pretty nice outside.  Not sure what we are going to do today.  We need to take garbage somewhere.  We can do Eagle River in the am or  wait and to VB in the afternoon.   I guess it costs a $1.50 per bag.  Dad wants us to walleye fish in the am but isn’t planning on going and we don’t have any minnows.  He wants us to take Bob but no one has told Bob yet.  I need to get some internet so that I can pay some bills and check email so I’m not sure what will happen.  I’m just going to get ready to do our Bible study and put the day in God’s hands. 

So Scott, Dad, and Mom took Bob and Sue out fishing in the early evening while J2 and the kids went to Boat Island.  I kayaked out to the three towers, but there was a storm heading over and it was a tough paddle.  The plan was to get on the boat and have hotdogs with them, but they were catching walleye and it was too rough to get on the boat.  I tried to fish but couldn’t even get a minnow from them so I just paddled back.  My hormones are off so I cried, confessed, prayed, cried, confessed, prayed all the way back.  I don’t know why because paddling was great the waves were going opposite way and it was a really easy and fun paddle.  It's such a beautiful place to paddle!!