Play Days...

Whew how much can you squeeze into 4 days...
Boggie boarding on Lake Michigan

Beach Bums Ball games,

campfire, redneck smores, family times,cousin times, fishing,

Stonehouse sandwiches, Cheese Shanty Sandwiches,

Windy Ridge Boys, kayaking, shopping in Leland,

shaking cherries, sparklers, sailing...sunsets

The perfect smore, dark chocolate & cinnamon grahams!!

We have been lots of places but...

There is nothing like...

Summer time

in Northern Michigan!!!

"Splashing through the sand-bar, talking by the camp fire,

It's the simple things in life like when and where We didn't have no internet ...

but man I never will forget The way the moon light shined upon her hair ..."

A Day at the Lake

Babys hands
Daddys hands
Dirty hands


Dad & Moms Beach
Their house from the front
From the back

Hey can I throw that stick for you Daddy and his Little man

Yesterday there was a gathering of family

at my Dad & Moms on Lake Leelanau

It was a beautiful Northern Michigan Day

Blaze LOVES the water (Lake Michigan)

Whats Beautiful Red & Ready for shaking!

Leelanaus Cherry Harvest

In our spare time...

Tis the Season...
1st CuttinLooks like he is havin a "binder twineder"
Hay boys, are you countin dem dar bales? Cuz dars lots of em
Hmmmm wonder what MDOT would think of this?

This is what we do for entertainment.... ;-) and fitness!!

556 bales later...off of one 7 acre field
& just in the nick of time

as we had a torrential down pour about 15 mins

after we got the last load in - whew!

We now have hay boogers & aching bodies

But hay in our barns here at the farm

and in our barn down in Cedar

& hay at our Farm Partners, Quartz Farm

down in Mesick - -

Thank you to the Kolarik brothers for their help

and Thank you to Berkley and Jennifer

for the field of hay!!

We were LUCKY this year as the weather was lots

cooler than last year!

I LOVED driving this big truck!!! Truck drivin Momma

Bruce and I got here first and unloaded over 100 bales

then this load showed up

with Tom and Wens

so we had ;-)HELP!!!

Just a BarnScape for your view pleasure

This was across the road from the field

where we picked up hay

MORE PICTURES

On our way to Cedar the other day

we stopped in Leland looking

for my brother Dennis

Hoping to catch a glimpse of him kiting...

we never found him but

it was a Big Blue Day!!

The man & his dog ;-))