The Happy Couple

Our church held a "Faithfully Yours" marriage encounter all day yesterday.  There were lots of good sessions.  The one I really looked forward to was renewing our vows.  This was the first time to renew them since the original time May 22, 1976. 

The bride wore white (turtleneck).  The groom wore a formal flannel shirt.  Folks, this is March in the Northwoods.

The photographer got artsy.                     We do have a silhouette photo like this after our wedding.

Lady 'Canes

The Hayward High School girls, that's right, girls hockey team won the championship game over Onalaska (near LaCrosse).  That makes them number 1.  All the schools (all grades) took a couple of days off to go to Madison to watch the final game.  An anonymous donor picked up the tab for the bus so the students only had to pay their way into the game.  The nickname of the schools is the Hurricanes (don't ask) but most of the time, especially in the newspaper headlines, they are referred to as 'Canes.  This is very exciting for a little town like Hayward. 

We Booked

And we will book no more.  We are suffering the aftereffects of playing a younger person's game.  I walk 8K once a week but on solid ground not snowshoes.  The course was much to be desired.  Case ended up taking off his skiis and walking his way across the finish line.  At least the stars were bright and the entertainment along the way, and the band in the victory tent was good.  This event will be listed on the category:  Been There, Done That.

Walking Lake Superior

Guess what I am doing...snow shoeing across Lake Superior...at night.

Oh, the crazy things that go on in the Northwoods.   On Saturday evening I (along with 4,000 of my closest friends) will be snowshoeing 6 miles across a small bay of Lake Superior.  The ice is 30 inches thick.  There are 3 food/comfort stations along the way on the ice.  The entire route is lit with 1,000 ice luminary.  Case, of course, is taking the skiing route that parallels the snowshoe route.  It is called "Book Across the Bay." 

Alive and Kicking in the Northwoods

The good part is that the procedure is over and recovery is going as expected.  Today I am going to finish my taxes. 

The last two blog entries are to let you know that retiring in the Northwoods isn't ALL fun and games...just most of the time. 

Another blog entry of: he retired too early

I have another dental procedure - extraction of a tooth with a root canal that split.  It can't be saved and it can't stay because it is really bothering me so out it goes.  Argh!  Another retired dentist in the area recommended an oral surgeon that he used...so off to Rice Lake - 75 minutes away...instead of driving 5 minutes away to oral surgeons who I know by first names.  Life in the Northwoods.

SUPERBOWL

Even though the Packers weren't in the game, I enjoyed it anyway.  Got to see Clay Matthews in a suit in the pre-game; lights going out was fun; game was close; watching a man in full football gear make a confetti angel on the field was a nice finish.