Izzy's 10th Birthday!

Wow. Isobelle is 10 years old!

She had a couple friends over to celebrate on the weekend. Isobelle invented Littest Pet Shoppe themed games for them to play. Brownies were her choice of "cake" with buttercreme frosting. They had snacks and prizes. A good time was had by all.

Today, October 12th, is her actually birthday. We are taking the day off of school. She enjoying her new presents with Victoria.

Winter Arrives In Cloquet

I'm SO NOT ready for winter to come this year. And to top it off, it's settling in nice and early. We had our first snowfall October 10th and it DIDN'T melt! Ugh! Usually the first few melt away. Winter, ready or not...

John's Rendezvous

Sometime in late September, John was asked to participate in Duluth's Lester River Rendezvous. Here he is depicted showing his skills to a interested boy. A most excellent festival!




John has been trying to sell the truck for many months. Finally, this fall is sold and is going to a good home that will use it exclusively for it's plowing talents and not it's reliability (though it was none too shabby in that department either, if you minus the carbon monoxide poisoning you fast approached while riding long distances.) Here John waves around the cash. Victoria was very put out he would not share.