waking up to snow on ground....brrr

Much to my suprise after posting a snow day on Oct 26th, I woke up to snow sticking to ground the morning of Oct 27....Not much, but I guess it counts, btw the temp. read 22 degrees.

first snow for 2008/09

Yes, we did have a good amount of snow coming down, but with the ground staying warm, the snow was unable to stick around. whew.

It may be hard to see, although some slight accumulation on the truck window.

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very hungry loon

My Aunt Patty captured photos of this loon on Lake George back in Aug 2008. If you can see from the photos the loon has caught a good size bass....unsure if was able to feed on all at one sitting....I guess I wouldn't mess with a loon...haha

click on images to make them larger. (ignore time stamp on photos, was not set up at time)

The return of a nature walk at Sleeping Fawn Resort

I asked Tom and Nona- Regular visitors of the resort to help me find a route through the 10 acres of untapped woods for the new nature walk. Of course they were honored to help with the venture.
Our chore was to place pink ribbon tape for the brush cutter crew to find its way through.

I have posted a couple pics to give you an idea of whats to come for 2009.

Another Airstream visitor

The Lee family of Moorhead, MN camped for a few nights here sportin this classic 1963 Airstream. One of my favorite campers. They said it also contains solar pannels for the elctricity...how clever is that.
This is our second Airstream since ownership of resort in 2003.

Joe, showing off?!?

haha, hardly- The Olsons of Rochester offer their toys for me to play with when they venture Sleeping Fawn every July. I decided to try out the knee board again, it has been a while since last on them, but I caught on quick.

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Baby Loons! yes- 2 of them

These pictures were taken July 12-19th. There were two baby loons in 2008, we had 1 baby loon in 2007 as well.

The sad news is we lost one of the baby loons, unsure the cause of loss. But we still wanted to share photos of when they were just days old. Enjoy

(click on image to view larger size- note one baby loon is on the back of adult while the other is swimming)

loon photos taken by the (LOF) group of Rochester. photo enclosed

MVCC BINGO night

It was our last night of Bingo for the year at the Mantrap Valley Conservation Club, we had a record amount of people, in fact we had to turn people away due to the fact we ran out of bingo cards....as you can see, I am the caller for the event....haha Until next year!

taste of Dorset

Every 1st Sunday of August the town of Dorset puts on a eating festival called "taste of Dorset" which draws thousands of visitors to the area. The main street is closed off, the live bands perform polka and other folk music, and all the restaurants have sample food for dirt cheap...The food is simply amazing, all the other shops open up with crafts and such.

This is a must see event if you can handle the crowds!

nesting loon

One of the guests was able to capture the loon nesting just 30 ft from shore on a bog.

We are happy to report as of today the loon had 2 baby loons and are showing them off for all the guests to see.

I will update with photos of the loons once we have some to share.