Error in Judgement

We decided to launch the boat today when I got home from gallivanting around a few counties.  A friend and I went to a few shops that were recommended to us that also had a recommended restaurant next door.  It did not disappoint.  What a great day to spend a retirement Friday!  Anyway, I get home and we launched the boat.  Ten seconds after it was in the water, we both realized that it is too windy.  It is already in the water so it would be nearly impossible to get back on the trailer in that amount of wind.  We spent a good deal of time cussing, pulling on the ropes, cussing, jumping in and out of the boat, cussing, trying to get it started before it blows into the rocks...and did I mention cussing?  Case had to travel in a serpentine manner in the lake to get to our dock.  He did make it although in a much longer time than usual.  Tying up was uneventful.  Wow!  That is done.  We leave the boat in the water until fall.  Even if that is not how we usually do it, that is how we would handle it this year.  

Exhausted

It is spring planting time in the Northwoods.  Every year we continue to "beef up" the forest in our line of sight with additional trees.  This year was only birch.  They were labeled Canoe Birch.  Won't be hollowing out any canoes very soon.  The trees are about 2 feet tall.  The birch trees in our area are in a maturing cycle so we want to make sure some young ones are on their way.  In addition a friend is re-doing her yard so we came home with a trunk full of plants.  Both of us are exhausted from all the planting.  I haven't had the nerve to tell Case that I ordered more plants that are on their way from a catalog.  I'll let the UPS guy let him know.  I hope that I am at work when they arrive. 

Only in the Northwoods

• The smelt are running in Lake Superior so there was a beat up truck in a parking lot selling them.  Case slows.  I say, "We can't buy smelt on the way to church and have them sit in the backseat for a couple of hours, can we?"  Case continues to slow.  I state, "No, we can't."  On the way home from church the truck was already gone.  This goes to show you that prayer works.  
• Ads are starting up for Mother's Day gifts.  A new fishing pole seems to be the going thing.  
• The DNR set up a net in our bay of the lake.  They caught huge muskies, removed the eggs and milt, returned the fish to the lake and then took the eggs and milt to the state fish hatchery in Spooner, WI where all the muskies for the entire state are raised.  Wowzer!
• To complete my piscine blog today, Case is cooking talpia (from the store) for dinner tonight.

Random Bits

• A critter has been eating parts of fish and leaving the remains on the dock.  Case has been burying the remains with small trees we have been planting.  A critter - the same one or different one, I don't know - digs up the buried fish.  Case reburies the fish.  Ah, fertilizing in the Northwoods.
• We have been traveling and having fun seeing friends and family.  But there is something about sleeping in your own bed that you can't duplicate.
• Didn't watch much basketball with Wisconsin and Duke out early.  Case went to high school with Coach K.  And we live in WISCONSIN!
• This spring has had the earliest "ice out" on record.  (ice off the lake)  We even ate lunch on the porch a few times.
• My walking group went to a wonderful program and hike at an Audubon Sanctuary.  I had been hearing great things about the director.  I mentioned the experience to my boss.  The director was my boss' scout master 20 years ago in another part of the state.  Small world!
• My diabetes has not been acting as it usually does so I am paying close attention to it to make adjustments.  And that makes me cranky.  It better start behaving.
• Speaking of cranky...I am also cranky about lawyers.  The township did win the zoning hearing that I am secretary for.  However, there is an appeal so I have even more busy work putting papers together to give to the other side.  It makes me slam drawers and the like.
• I am working on a sewing project so that calms me down.
• We have formed an agreeable routine of participating in local organizations and of short trips to see Lucyna and Tad in Iowa and southern Wisconsin, respectively.  It's a comfortable feeling.