June 20, 2012 Michigamme Shores RV Resort

Yesterday our car was picked up before dinner and today, before breakfast, it was fixed. Whoever heard of a service department of a car dealer being open 24 hours? But they were and they were able to replace the worthless part so we’re back in business. (One in five in the country and we were near one of them…our good luck.)

We spent the afternoon at our friends’ (Curt and Debbie Johnson) cabin on Sundog Lake about ½ hour away. We had initially talked about taking our motorhome to their cabin in the woods on the lake. Not knowing what the drive in looked like in terms of road condition, overhanging branches and other unknown hazards we opted to stay at a regular motorhome park. Thank goodness we did. The drive in is absolutely beautiful, however, many, many trees over the road way would have done damage to the roof equipment. The last little bit of road into the cabin is slightly narrower than our coach is wide. All in all, a good choice to stay where we are.

As soon as we arrived their grandson, Eric, announced that his gramma (Debbie) told him Rob would take him fishing. From then on “Robert” as Eric called him, was engaged in checking fishing gear, digging for worms and instructing both Eric, almost 5, and Elliott, almost 4, in the fine art of fishing. Their grampa Curt helped some, mostly in digging the worms and holding Elliott’s pole. The equipment was lacking sufficient bobbers so a wine cork was called into action. The afternoon was beautiful, albeit slightly hot and humid. Biting flies were voracious, but were handled with a liberal application of bug spray. The boys soon tired of fishing and everyone eventually retired to the cabin to await dinner of baby back ribs, potato salad, corn on the cob, green salad, bread, and freshly baked rhubarb pie (made by daughter-in-law Heather) and blueberry pie, both ala mode. I had precooked the ribs in my Advantium oven in the coach yesterday. We previewed a couple of ribs last night to test the effectiveness of the Advantium. I have to say they turned out exceptionally well. All Rob had to do was reheat them and dispense a liberal application of BBQ sauce.

Dusty was in heaven exploring every square inch of the property, swimming in the lake, chasing the winecork bobber,  playing with boys (although I’m not sure the boys knew he was playing) and eating everything he could find. I’m sure he’ll be upchucking again tonight after finding the watermelon rinds the boys through in the woods yesterday.

Lots of good conversation catching up with our friends whom we haven’t seen since April.

We left before sunset, (this being the longest day of the year sunset would be late) and ran straight into a thunderstorm. We also almost ran into a deer who darted across no more than 5 feet in front of us. The rest of the drive home was uneventful, but the windshield wipers were furiously working to keep us able to see the road. Water is pooling around our coach requiring a short wade through the puddles to enter. Of course, as soon as we’re inside, Dusty needs to go out.

We scheduled for golf tomorrow with Curt and Debbie. Fingers crossed for no rain.

 

Rob and Debbie checking out the fishing equipment with Eric and Elliott waiting patiently.

Little cabin by the lake in the woods.

Grampa helping Elliott fish.