It feels like I need to do an update because time is flying by.  Thanks to you who put the nice comments on the last post.  Tom and Barbara are on their own adventure with Sandi,Max and grand kids.   We hope you are having a great time across Florida and up the East coast.

Marie has arrived since my last post.  We are happy to have her here.  She arrived in time to prepare for us to make our Memorial Day Hayward trip.   Up to far north western Wisconsin.   We had a great time with Dick and Carol.   They are great hosts and show us around the area.  Dick and I spent a fair amount of time on the water.   We caught a lot of great eating 16-17 inch walleyes on Sand Lake.  Unfortunately  the size limit on Sand Lake is 18″.    But we did OK on Crappie and Perch, enough to do a fish fry.  I wanted Marie to get a fish fry this year.   It started out well,  but before it was done I was trying to fry in a rain storm.   The last batch did not fry up quite as well,  but I ate those!

But beside time on the water we had plenty to eat and drink.   We had very nice weather and some buckets of rain, spaced out enough to have a great time.  We stayed up there Thursday to Tuesday, then the almost 5 hour drive home with the trailer.

We have taken Marie to our favorite places, seen some old friends.  And put her to work helping out around the house!   Saturday I worked a community booth at the Oshkosh Farmers Market,  they had given it to my homebrew club.  We sold some glasses and T-shirts and talked about beer.   And possibly have some new members coming to the next meeting.   Then we spent in the gardens.  I am late planting,  for having such a nice spring.  And the girls picked up lot’s of flowers on Saturday that we planted.  So we are further ahead now.  I still have a few things to finish up with but it is what it is!  The yard does look better.   And Chris has been keeping the new plants watered so they get a good start.

I brewed this week with a friend.  He lets me brew with him once a year and we share the 10 gallons.  He is a great brewer and I come away with some great beer.  This year Mark named it Octopple Bock.  We wanted a big malty Octoberfest/bock.   And everything went well on the brew and seemed that everything came out as planned.   Now just have to let the yeast do it’s work.  Marie and Chris came over so we could teach Marie a little about brewing beer.  Maybe we can get her a new hobby!    She is wanting more flavorful beers!

Our sympathies to John Ebel and family,  John lost his mother this week.    Never an easy time.

Chris and Marie are getting even more excited.   June 19th they will be heading Switzerland with Mary Jane.  So the time is getting close.   I told them to work on their German, but as usual I don’t think they are following my directions!  But they will have a great time and can’t wait.  Charles good luck keeping them out of trouble!

Get out and enjoy life!

Dick, Marie, Carol and Chris in front of our trailer

Hard to keep the oil hot in the rain