Tuesday night – fish

Ok… so .. one of the amazing things about this place is that they have TV.. not just TV but cable tv.. That may not seem like much to most of you.. but I’ve lived 30 years without a TV hooked up to the outside world. Now I realize why it’s so easy to get sucked into this thin and watch it for hours. Last night the boys and I sat up late watcching adult swim on cartoon network. Eventually Aqua Teen Hunger Force came on.. It was always one of Sam’s favorites.. In fact this was the original show..

Sam always identified with Meatwad..

On this show .. Meatwad would always say “Can I go swimmin'”.. and the other guys woudl tell him no.. Sam could do this line just like Meatwad.. it was one of our catch phrases.. now when I’m travelign by myself and talking to Sam.. I always say “Can I go swimmin'” in that same voice.., and here it was on TV..

TV is great..

We woke not so early today.. Diane and I did a great 3.5 run on a hiking trail nearby.. we put anther Samstone out there on an overlook of Lake Superier..

The housholds were waking up just as we got back. Uncle Billy came in with his broken Macbook.. the video settings were busted.. so everthing lookedlike pretty quilts.. not very usefull.. but oh-so-pretty.

We’ve had a couple of Crows looking in on ous since we’ve been here… This guy sits on the birdhouse of our patio and Caws’ .. He’s HUGE..

Late midmorning Gabe. Max and i went with Billy down to fish..

Gabe caught a tree in our front yard.. and it was a big one ! We were going to take it hoem to eat.. but we decided to release it.

We went up the street to get soem fishing tackle and found the locals prefered bait.. Ewwwwww..

We went down to where the polr river flows into Lake Superior and started fishing.. Well to be truthfull.. I had nothing to do with it. I just followed along to be companionable.. I can’t stand fishhooks.. so I just kinda hung back

Hey. we got one !

Gabe set up on one sire of the nouth of the river.. and Max was on the other..

About30 seconds in, Max got a bite..a pretty big one.. !

Uncle Billy came running with the net.

It was a trout .. about 20 inches long !

Billy headed up the river to fish… we stayed where we were…

I sat back and stared at the clouds.. I took too many pictures.. but here’s two .. I think it looks liek the tail of a shark… I’ll spare you the other 100

Max caught the bottom of the lake..

It was a beutiful day.. and a beautiful palce..

Ooops… tangle..

We headed up the river to look for other places.. There was this cool old building that used to be a hydro power station for the resort.

Just outside, Max got his second bite.. this one aout 8 inches long..

The boys then inched there way under the overpass for the road.. about 12 inches of les over a huge casm.. eeeeeekk

Gabe got to the other side and waved back at me through an acient pipe that was still there ..

Around 5 we headed into Grand Marais abotu 20 miles aways.. Lots of good stickers up there..

First stop was the hardware store.. we’re lookign for mischief to make.. the plungers looked attractive.. but in the end we opted for spud gun makings..

Then one more stop at the grocery store.. We ran into the guys we met there the other day.. their all from macedonia.. just working here for the summer.. They’ve had a good time.. but they say it’s pretty quiet around here..

I was pround because I remembter my 10 words of Serbo Croat.. zva ivo molim “two beers please” .. kako ste ? “how you doing ?” hfala “thanks” molim “please”, dovijenia “bye”.

We gave them a SamSone to take home..

We headed back into town to look for food. We found an old Firetruck for sale.. if Erin from Mexicali is reading this.. please take a look and let us know if your Dad might be interested.. He collects old firetrucks.