Sunday, May 27, 2012

Memorial Day Weekend!

Hi, everyone - hope everyone is having a fun, relaxing and safe weekend so far.  Thanks go out to all of the Veterans - we greatly appreciate your sacrifices.  

Yesterday Jamey & I started planting some of our flowers.  We hope to finish tomorrow afternoon.  Also, last night we were over at some friends' house visiting and when we got home this is what we found next to our door!
This moth was very hairy and beautiful - Jamey had fun taking pictures!  Here's one more:

We have some lovely guests this weekend - very thankful for that!  It's so much fun hosting and meeting new people!  This morning for breakfast we had scrambled eggs with cheese, ham, red peppers, onions and spices; blueberry pancakes with maple syrup, banana bread, fresh oranges, grapefruit and kiwi - very delicious.  Here is a picture of the fruit tray:



Tomorrow after serving breakfast we  are going to the Memorial Day Service and then we will attend the Community Potluck lunch.  Thanks for reading our blog and feel free to comment.
Good night!

Friday, May 25, 2012

Time for planting flowers!

Hi, everyone!  Yesterday Jamey and I went to Munising and bought some flowers for our hanging baskets and I can't wait to get them planted!  It was extra fun because several other Grand Marais locals were there and all of us were trying not to get blown away - it was REALLY windy!  Here is a picture of the flowers we picked up - more pictures when they are planted:
 Another cool thing we experienced is two sand hill cranes along the side of the road - there were 2 babies but they didn't come out on the picture - I think we scared them.  Here is the picture the 2 babies are in the middle:
Jamey and I had a good trip out of town - long but productive.  Today we attended the funeral of Frank Mead - I did not know him very well, but he did come over to our home last year.  It was a very touching funeral - many family members and friends said very wonderful things and the music was great.  It was very obvious that he was very well loved and will be missed by many. 

We hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Memorial Day weekend - we will post more pictures soon!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Beautiful day!!!

Hello, everyone!  Jamey & I had another beautiful day by the bay!  Jamey went fishing early this morning with our friend John and they caught 6 fish!  1 coho salmon, and 5 whitefish!  Here is a picture of Jamey holding them before he filleted them:


 This was taken while Jamey was picking them up for the picture - Bear and Domino were very interested!


 





Here is a picture of the fish before they were cooked:
 While Jamey was cleaning the fish I went for a nice walk with some friends from town.  It was just beautiful on the beach - what a great area we live in!

We had our friends Genie, John and Pat over for dinner to help eat the fish.  We tried something different (for us) with the cubed fish.  We dredged them in seasoned flour, then Greek yogurt thinned out with milk, and finished with crushed cornflakes.  We placed them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and refrigerated them for a while.  They were baked @375 degrees for about 25 minutes.  We served them with cocktail sauce - it was absolutely delicious!!!  I love to create new ways of preparing food.  FYI - I helped with the process, but Jamey did all of the work!  He sauteed the other fish in butter and various spices, we also had garlic smashed potatoes, roasted vegetables (cabbage, broccoli, onions, and carrots) and salad - everything was just so tasty!  For dessert we had mud bars and coffee.  Jamey and John plan to go fishing again tomorrow morning - hope they catch some more! 

Today was also Jamey's son Ryan's 19th Birthday!  We spent time with him last week to celebrate - we were sad that we could not be with him today. 

We have also been working on our landscaping lately - I will post some pictures of that soon!

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Cinco de Mayo!!!

Hi, everyone!!!  Jamey & I had another fun and productive day by the bay!  We got up very early this am and went fishing.  I caught 4 menomenee (I don't know how to spell that)  one got away - I almost had it and right before I was reeling it out of the water it got off the hook!  Oh, well - 4 fish were enough for a meal!  Jamey always lets me catch them!!!  He cooked them for dinner tonight and they were absolutely delicious - he is becoming very proficient in filleting - no bones and the fish were very small - a great feat!!!  We had roasted broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and onion which went excellent with the fish - a delicious and very healthy dinner!  In honor of Cinco de Mayo we had blue corn tortillas and salsa for an appetizer.   Jamey is going out again tomorrow morning before church to try to catch some more!   The sunrise was gorgeous - here is one of the pictures that I took:
  I actually got down on my stomach on the pier and took this!
Here's a picture of me and one of the fish:
Here's a picture of the light house - I really like how the sun is reflecting:

After we got home this morning Jamey went out and got 2 loads of wood and I worked here at the house.  I'm almost done with the staining - woo hoo!  Later in the afternoon Jamey & I went out and did some more work on our rock garden.  Maybe by next year we will be ready to be a part of the garden tour in Grand Marais!!!  Have a great night!!!

Thursday, May 3, 2012

May!!!

Hello, all - Jamey & I just got back from Pittsburgh on Tuesday!!!  We were there to celebrate my daughter's graduation from the University of Pittsburgh graduate school!  I guess that I am bragging a little but it's an awesome accomplishment to get a Master's Degree!!!  She is going to be a Registered Dietician and I am very proud of her.  We had a wonderful trip and spent lots of quality time with my daughter and her husband as well as my parents, and other family members.  We are very thankful for safe travels back and forth.  On the way home we received a call for some reservations and had some lovely guests - a mother and her son (who is a medical student) stay with us for the past two nights.  They are traveling around the UP during his two week break.  The best part is that they were referred to our B&B by one of our previous guests - who also happens to be a medical student.  We are so fortunate to have such interesting people stay with us from all over - and, the best compliment is to get a referral from a previous guest.  Yesterday for breakfast we served fresh wheat bread, sausage quiche, parsley potatoes, fresh grapefruit and oranges, and cranberry bread.  This morning we had cheesy scramble eggs with onions, ham and spinach, oatmeal/wheat bread, oven potatoes, fresh apple slices and molasses muffins. 

We are still working on our house, which is an ongoing job, obviously.  We have a flower garden, that is a work in progress, and some primroses and daffodils are blooming.  Here are a couple of pictures of that.
I am eager to see our other plants start to bloom!!!
Here is a picture of our elderly dog, Domino - he was watching me take the pictures of the flowers so I decided to take a picture of him.  He is doing pretty well today - he was very stressed out when we picked him up from the kennel on Tuesday.  
FYI - Jamey & I plan to go fishing tomorrow - hope we catch some!!!