16 Mile Lake - Munising

Munising 2009

 
 

Another wonderful year in da UP. Good Food, Friends, Kayaking, Camp Fires, Pictured Rocks, Snapping Turtles!

I grew that beautiful purple flower

just thought everyone was wondering.

Very Excited

Steve Carter is coming to visit tomorrow, he was one of the first people to come up to Northern Wisconsin when we first moved here. He is such a good man that if he was less than 1000 miles from us he would stop to say hi. He is a joker, and he had a big part of this blog from the beginning. He came and stayed at Uncle Art's cabin and we were attacked by bats. Fun Times.

We are gearing up for school to start, we want to pace ourselves with shopping, school supplies, going to bed early, because even more so than CA, you really need to enjoy summer. I'm hoping the treehouse is close to being finished before the first snow. Last night Mike and Isabel went out and watched the meteor shower in the Treehouse it scared me because there is no railing yet, but they were fine.

Blue Moon Emporium is doing well, what you don't see is the sales I make at the Fire and they are up! I'm gearing up for Fall and Winter. Frankenstein Pendants, Turkeys, Christmas Fun. Keep checking out Blue Moon Emporium on Facebook for new things, I tend to put more stuff on there to see if people like them.

Hope you are all doing well, I love hearing from you and hearing stories from others how people are hanging in there in CA with hard times. They say these times create the best innovation and the people I know in WI/CA are the most creative.

More Culture

This weekend had so much to offer culturally in Northern Wisconsin. I wanted to go to 2 main events; Catfish Races in Greenville and State Tree Climbing Competitions in Appleton at Erb Park. The night of the Catfish races there was a great lightening and thunder storm so we didn't go, but Saturday was the Tree Climbing competition.

On a scale of 1-10 in excitement it was probably a 3, but I was very impressed with the skill and the determination of the people climbing those trees. The kids watched one guy climb a tree and they were through. Mike and I at least watched 3 guys climb trees before we said "ICE CREAM" and we were off to Van DeWalls.

Today we spent the afternoon at a beautiful Waterfall near Crivitz, and then a little drive around and found those cool old cars.

Speaking of trees, Mike got the final board into the treehouse floor, now we just need the walls, ladder, tree swing, trap door and railing. Actually the railing is going up next, I still get a little queasy going up there it is really high. I'm so proud of Mike for working so hard on this.


I've not blogged for a very long time, well, not here. I've posted notes on facebook. I think I'll rekindle the blog for a while.

I have been selling my pendants, owls and softy things at The Fire and also started on online store called etsy.com. I'm not too sure how this is going to turn out. Could be a time waster. I'm grateful for the sales that I have made.