Hunting with Mike

We are home from our week at my brother-in-laws cabin near Wellston. It was a different vacation for me as I was laid up most of the time with a “bum” knee. I hobbled around the best I could trying to entertain grandkids but just couldn’t do everything we normally do.

The weather had been in the 90’s the day before we arrived, but dropped into the hi-60’s low 70’s the rest of the week. We still went to Lake Michigan swimming several times. Kids don’t seem to mind the cold like the adults. Everyone (except me) took a drive up to Traverse City for the cherry festival and spent the day there. Kyle caught his first sunfish, and his dad caught a few brook trout. Tony, Quinn, and Nina rafted part of the Little Manistee, and also jumped off the rope swing a few times. Played “uno” a lot, ate good healthy meals, and had a big bonfire. The girls went shopping while the guys watched the boats come into the river from the lake.

The deer we saw all looked to be in great shape with one of them being a velvet covered 8-pointer. The turkey population has really taken off in that part of the state, as we saw lots of hens and little ones. Nadia and Quinn saw a huge black bear in the back yard, and got everybody all excited, until the neighbor called for his Rotweiller to come home! All in all we had a good time, but its nice to lay my head on my own pillow in my own bed-amen.

Thanks Brett for the great blog you did while I was gone. I’ll have to see if I can do more guest blogs in the future.

Mike

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