Hello, everybody!!
We are back on the Southern Belle after a wonderful time in Minnesota visiting family and friends. We had a great time but we are also glad to be back on board.
To catch you up on some of our 'missing time'...
What I did on my summer vacation...
We drove to Minnesota from Ottawa, Illinois, leaving Warren in charge of the Southern Belle.
We stayed with sister, Linda, and enjoyed the St. Croix River, which is our favorite chunk of water in the world
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| Sunrise on the St Croix from Linda's back yard!! |
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| St. Croix Morning |
While at Linda's we did some jobs around the house...my favorite was the gardening. We ripped out some straggly plants from the front island and brought in some black dirt, grass seed and a new light post with her house name.
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| My beautiful big sister |
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| Front lightpost and new grass growing |
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| New entry lights |
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| Artsy view of Linda's new light in the side garden |
Kerm's birthday was celebrated in July and I bought him what every man needs...
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| 'The Kerminator' |
Also, Kerm and Graham (brother-in-law) were official photography boat for the St. Croix Sailing Club's Labor Day regatta. Look at these guys having a great day...
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One day was really windy and they got wet!
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| Patrick and Katie running the Committee Boat |
Dan came up from St. Petersburg and we had a chance to meet his girlfriend, Carrie. That's her in the green jacket. |
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| Sailing Regatta from Linda's house |
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| Hot action at the mark |
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| Shenanigans' Crew at the awards banquet- good job!! |
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| Fast Lane's crew at the awards banquet- Congrats, Mary!! |
Kerm's Dad has a cabin up by the Canadian border. Kerm took his Dad up there for a week. Pelican Lake is beautiful in a rugged, northern way.
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| Eagle |
My 'other' boat is there...
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| 1964 Lund 'Resorter' |
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It's heavy duty, pre-dented and well used. It came complete with a coffee-can cement anchor! The side of the boat has a worn out, barely legible, hand-painted sign from Cabin O Pines Resort, an old fashioned resort on the other side of the lake.
On Labor Day there was a family gathering at Mary and Graham's house. It was wonderful to see everyone again. As sometimes happens when I'm the having the most fun, I forget to take pictures. This explains why there are no pix. Sorry!
Starved Rock MarinaOn September 9th we said good-bye to Minnesota and headed back to the "Belle". When we opened the door we were welcomed home with a flower arrangement from Linda...so nice.
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| Daisies are my favorite |
Warren did
not do a good job of taking care of the boat...the outside was covered in spider webs and spider 'schmutz' when we got here. But a good washing and spray down with the pressure washer brought her right back to beautiful.
Kerm has done lots of maintenance and refitting.
- Installed a search light on the mast
- Rewiring
- Installed new lee cloths on the fly bridge
- Replaced a big starter battery
- Lots of other miscellaneous stuff
On Saturday night were were invited to a Lobster boil and Steak grilling extravaganza here at the marina by a fellow boater, Bonnie. We had good food, dancing and a chance to meet some really nice people. Bonnie won the raffle so there was excitement at our table. We also met Laura and Jack from CarolLee who spend almost every weekend on their boat and who want to do the Loop some day. Hope to see you out there!!!
We are leaving tomorrow morning ...Tuesday, Sept. 13th.
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| Capt is anxious to get going and the boat is ready... | | |
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