Jim (plowed in 2013)

…d it in the water for the opener by ten. He has been reading about this boat since Christmas. The old Alumacraft goes to Arnie's nephew. Jim Hrdlicka was in the bow. They came in at four with five walleye and a discussion of the trim that continued through supper. David had meant to come and could not get away. The…

Opener: Ray and Jim, six walleye, and a 26-inch northern. Found: no mice (!). A woodpecker hole in the boathouse fascia the size of a quarter. Kangas came Friday about the septic. He will send a price.

Found this year: the outside spigot on the lake side split along its length. It froze with the hose still screwed on. The plumber: Mike Juntunen from Arbor Vitae came Saturday afternoon. He put in a frost-free one. $164.00. So: HOSE OFF in October. Otherwise: one mouse, no leaks, feeders up.

The truck (Ray, the dog): the Bernina in its case, wedged with quilts; the cutting mat; two tubs of fabric; Ray's hand tools and the small lathe; Birdie's crate; the chest freezer's contents in three coolers. The CR-V (me): Sigrid; 40 lb of flour and 10 of sugar; the pills, ninety days of everything for both of us, i…

The dock: two of the decking panels on the third section had cracked across. The frame is untouched. $118.00 each from Pike Bay, and Ray dropped them in himself. No mice. Nate's crew comes Monday to start the porch footings.

…lake side, screened, from Samir's drawings, which arrived in a tube last fall as a present. The footings are in. R. has checked them with his own level and pronounced them "within reason." Alice Nettesheim from the quilt guild died on the 6th. Her fabric has come to the guild in eleven boxes. I helped sort it on Mon…

- MUSKY, 44 inches. September 17, 2016. Rock bar, north shore, about 7 in the evening. Black bucktail. Arnie netted it. Released. - WALLEYE, 26 inches (Arnie says 24). September 12, 2020. Rock bar, 12 feet, jig and minnow. Kept. - NORTHERN, 26 inches (Jim says 28). Opener, May 7, 2016. Released. - WALLEYE, 21 inches,…

…nying it. Lucas is eleven and took his grandfather ice fishing on a reservoir an hour away, with David to drive, and they came back with two trout and a great deal of opinion about Colorado ice. Maeve is eight and has read everything I have sent her, and wanted to know why the girl in last month's book had to give th…

The shed is empty for Nate's crew on the 12th. Where things have gone: - The mower and the gas cans: the lean-to on the back of the pump house. - Rakes, shovels, the wheelbarrow: the boathouse, left wall. - Paint, 31 cans: to the county's clean sweep day in Rhinelander on the 17th. Ray kept two. - Canoe paddles, the c…

Lakeland Hardware & Bait. · Fatheads, leeches, crawlers, and a jar of pickled herring for Jim

…Friday; the truck is at Gary's. Earl had the water on. One window screen chewed, no mice in the traps, and the generator has run itself every Tuesday all winter. The loons are back, both of them. I heard them last night from the bed, with the window open an inch, and R. heard them too. Jim Hrdlicka came for the ope…