October 12, 2012 - What Have We Been Doing?

Since we got back to Wisconsin we have kept busy visiting family & friends, hunting, doing some farm work,  remodeling a smoke shack and moving.  Our push to make it from Sterling to Pardeeville in eight days was about as short of time we could do especially with 2 dogs and pulling the trailer.  It was an uneventful trip and the fall colors were at their peak.  The truck now has over 14,000 miles on it and is running good, but needs a good cleaning.

It has been good to spend time with family and friends and getting caught up on what we missed since we left in May.  We still have many friends and co-workers that we want to meet with as time allows.  Ken has made it out duck hunting a few times and had some success.  He has not made it out deer or turkey hunting yet, but maybe in the future.  Ken also did some brush hogging around two ponds and some trails on The Farm and tore down the old horse shed and remodeled part of it for a smoke shack.  He hopes to try smoking some salmon next week.

Our biggest project was packing up the trailer, storing some stuff at The Farm and moving the rest to our rental on Big Green Lake, it is the same place we stayed at last year.  The house and view hasn't changed much and it nice to be settled in.  Rebecca & Dad helped us load the Trailblazer and truck Sunday night and we took our first 2 loads to the Lake on Monday.  After unloading we headed back to The Farm for the last 2 loads.  We spent Tuesday getting things put away and set up and put the finishing touches on things Wednesday.

As mentioned before we will ad posts to the blog, but probably not as frequently as we did when in Alaska.

Thanks for looking

The view from our deck looking north/east on Big Green Lake