Saturday, September 22, 2012

First Day of Fall
First wood stove fire to start off the fall season :)
To have a fire like this you have to have fire wood.  On Tuesday we got a call from the city that there was some firewood available for pick-up, so we headed over to Birch Street after Wayne came home from work.  As we were loading these huge chunks of the trunks :) and 5 foot long, 12 inches in diameter branches, one tipped over and the other end came up hard and hit me in the jaw.  It was quite painful and I saw stars and was dizzy.  But I had one of those create on the spot cold packs, so put that to it right away.  Took some ibuprofen when I got home and all is o.k. except for the abrasions and the black and blue.  Wayne thought I should put on some beige make-up, but I thought maybe I should just use a black permanent marker and turn it into a black goatee :)

Wayne went out in our woods on Friday and picked up all kinds of kindling wood to start the fires, and today he is cutting those up.



Over Labor Day weekend we went camping up north of Minocqua in the Northern State Forest.  Ben and Brenna and Ben's parents, Joyce and Brian came over for supper on Sunday night and then Ben and Brenna stayed in the trailer with us for the night.  The following pictures are from that camping trip.

The bottom part of this sign was a spiritual inspiration for my testimony that Sunday.

Where we went for our Friday night Fish Fry.

Our campsite.

Me prepping for the meal on Sunday night - Bratwursts and
Potato, Onion and Carrot packs.

Brenna grilling her marshmallows for S'mores!

Joyce and Wayne

Wayne and Brian relaxing

On Wayne's birthday, Kristi flew into Milwaukee, and we took her up to Shane and Nikelle's in Berlin.  They surprised us with other guests to celebrate our birthdays and Kristi's arrival.


Delicious meal by Nikelle and Shane and enjoyed by Randy and Cathy ...

Wayne, Kristi, Jaime and Meredith

Birthday cake with the candles in a W for Wayne and turn the cake around and it was a  M for Marilyn :)
Those kids are pretty clever!!


Betty, Blake and Madeline using the nursery in the our trailer during convention :)

She is so cute!!



Wayne's steam wound from one of the cooking vats in the kitchen at convention