Sunday, July 10-Tuesday, July 12, 2011
There's only one day left of my blog. I will miss it.
The picture is of my daughter, Danielle, who is pregnant. We were at her baby shower on July 3. The cradle sitting on the table is the same one that she was in as a baby, as well as her brother. It was made by Melvin Jacobi, our neighbor growing up. He was like a grandpa to us kids.
Sunday is usually a day of rest for me. I went to church, bought a few groceries, and then came back with the Milwaukee Journal. I took the paper down to the beach and several customers read it as well as John. I then made sandwiches and took those down to the beach for John, me, our niece Jaeden and nephew Tommy. They were swimming with a bunch of other kids. The water was really warm.
Several people took out their boats as they were leaving to go home after the 4th of July vacation.
We had a bunch of people in the lodge in the evening visiting with us and talking. We recently had a group of 3 baby raccoons at the resort and that night the mommy raccoon finally came back and got them.
Monday was another day spent at the beach. At 6 pm we had our pot luck. Some groups didn't bring enough food for their teenage daughters and guests. So all the food was gone pretty quickly. I made a big veggie/Italian sausage/pesto dish as well as a salad. Even though there wasn't enough food, it was still fun and everyone stayed awhile to watch the homerun derby, as the pot luck is a private party. It was pretty late by the time we all went to bed.
Tuesday it was cooler than usual. I could finally bake the blueberry pie I've been wanting to bake. So I did that, and then Jaeden and I went into the girl cave. I call my sewing area in the basement the girl cave. We sewed for a couple hours and when we were done, Jaeden had finished her first quilt top. She didn't like the tedium so I don't think she will continue this interest anytime soon. When I was 9, like her, I wanted to sew badly. My mom and aunt bought me a very old Singer for my 9th birthday. I sewed on that until I was in my 20's. I love to sew.
Jaeden didn't like sewing because she doesn't like to be bored. We did a 9 patch quilt. There are 5 squares that have 9 patches and then 4 squares of matching fabric. When she got to the last 9 patch square, she gave up. So I sewed on the borders. Oh well.
Later in the afternoon a customer's son caught a large musky that was in our bay. It jumped out of the water and they filmed it on video. The musky broke the line and got away. I can't wait to see the video.
I got out some boards, cut them to about 8" X 8" and brought a bunch of stuff up from the girl cave and basement. Each kid who participated got a printed gothic font letter of their first initial. I cut out the letter, which was about 4 inches in height, and pasted it on their board with a glue stick. They then pasted stuff all over the board. They had my old tackle box so they used old tackle. They had my old buttons so they used those. They had my scrap fabric box so they used some scrap and tassles and old keys, etc. They can take them home and hang them up now.
Tuesday night some more people came into the lodge. John and I were watching the All Star game but then we had to visit with customers. It was very fun as they stayed late in the day.
It was a good day.
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