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Update on 2012 from the Vilbaums

Here's some of what we have been up to this year.  We'll play catch up!

St George's Island light house

 Us at the top of the light

 Out on a walk

 Lunch time visitor

The end of another glorious day!

2011 visit to Florida

Doug's sister and Brother-in-law are spending winters in Florida so we took a week this year and last and visited with them.  It's been so enjoyable both years that we look forward to going again. 

Hope you guys don't get tired of us.

2012

Out getting his suntan!

These guys were at the fish cleaning station waiting for a free lunch!

Doug - Chandelier Islands Fishing July 2012

My 2nd time to go on this trip.  I would have gone more but BP Oil Spill and  Hurricane Ike made a

mess of these Islands and there was no fishing for a couple of years out here. 

 Jim stout went along on the trip this year.  Finally, a trade I can offer in return for the Canada trips!

 A nice trout

 And a Red Fish

 Another nice trout

and some more red fish

And then the catch of the week! A Jack Clavell

Everyone likes the look of this fish.

It was a very enjoyable and productive trip.

12 guys - 3 1/2 days = 396 Trout, 37 Flounder, and unknown number of Red fish



Labor Day Tour

We took a trip to Wisconsin to visit family and we had a great day on Labor day riding the back roads in a model T. Ron & Kathy had their model A (with only 2 seats) so they got us a ride with a friend in his T. It was a lot of fun


This was our ride! Open air and all.

Ron & Kathy's car & I can't remember who has the yellow one.


On another note, We brought back some corn stalks from our trip so I could use them for Fall decorations. They still had some corn on them so I put out an ear for the squirrels. It's been out there for a week and they haven't touched it. I can't believe it. Maybe they know that corn fattened squirrels make good dumpling companions. Or maybe they just have too many acorns and can't be bothered with corn!

I don't know where the end of 2009 went. I was just preparing for Christmas and next thing I knew the year had ended and we are already nearing the end of a month in 2010. I'll put up a few pics of the highlights of the end of 09 in the next day or so. Just can't seem to get caught up the last couple of months.

I have always supported the military and was happy that my Son-in-law was serving. But they (the army) sure messed up Thanksgiving this year. My daughter and son-in-law were coming from AZ. They left on Friday afternoon and were about 2/3 of the way here. I don't know what happened, but the commander called and said they had to come back. So no Daughter and family for thanksgiving. Although our older Daughter did make it from Austin, and in the long run it was sort of nice to have each set of Grandkids seperately so we could really focus on them individually. The AZ family was here the week after Thanksgiving. Of course we all ate too much while they were all here. I made cinnamon rolls twice (once for each family) but that meant I ate them both weeks. Yummy!! But too many calories!!
It's been a long day and it's getting late so I had better shut this down and go to bed.

Going back in time, Back, Back!

Let me back up a few months and comment on why I have not posted anything to this blog for so long. I had been concentrating on posting to my stamping blog and realized that my family was getting no info from that one. So I am back and will make up for lost time.
This is what we did with half of July!

Projects for Grandma!

I guess Alicia thinks I have too much free time (and most days she would be right) so she asked me to make Lucy's Halloween costume. I haven't done much sewing for quite some time so I was not really enthusiastic about doing it. But I'm glad now that I did. It was a lot of fun and it turned out quite nice, and most of all Lucy liked it and had a lot of fun on Halloween wearing it.

Fishing vs. Stamping

Had to get up early to help Doug finish up his packing and get all ready for his fishing trip. Although I will have more days by myself I am glad he is going on this trip. I can maybe catch up on some stamping projects and besides the fish he brings back will be a nice addition to the freezer. At least it will add a little variety to the fish from the lake. Got a phone call earlier this evening to say that they had arrived at the jump off point and had all their stuff on the boat. If this is a really good deal, maybe I'll just go with him next year (ha ha, I don't think the guys would let me come).