Saturday in Ely

Argh!! my little travel water heater died.  I have only used it 4 times.  I tried to contact Amazon about doing a return.  But I have passed the date that I could do that.  They gave me the link to contact the seller.  Hopefully, I will get a refund.  I am very disappointed.  Luckily, there are plenty of ways to heat water at Jeanne's.  

Jay made pancakes for us this morning for breakfast.  Yummy. Topped with bananas and blueberries.

We went into town to do some dinking.  Fun poking around in the various shops.  Some stores are closed now for the winter.  

Those were some tall sunflowers

Now there's is a necklace.  Don't mess with me!!

This was a miniature model canoe - about a foot long.

Main Street.  Almost like walking up State Street.  ;-) NOT.

Nancy Scheibe, artist: Seasons of Splendor

Jeanne took me to see where their new mailbox is located.  It kept getting knocked over when it was beside the highway.  This is a side road. It is not really the correct place for their box but the postal carrier okayed it, as long as it was the one on this end.

Great colors near the mailboxes.

We got home in time for lunch. 

 Jay said that the battery did charge so we could go out in the pontoon. It started right up.  Unfortunately, it was a much chillier day today than it was yesterday..  But the colors were spectacular.  We had a great time.

We had brought hot cider. I think that it should have had some fireball whisky in it.  That would have helped to warm us up. 

We got back and Jay had a neighbor, Kevin, come help him take the boat out of the water and load it on a trailer.  It was time to store it for the winter.  Kevin's wife, JoJo, dropped Kevin off and then gave Jeanne and me a ride home while he stayed to help Jay.  Once he got it home we helped to put the cover back on.  It is quote the job.

Once the boat was taken care of, Jay came in to cook the steaks.  Jeanne did the baked potatoes and broccoli.  It was a delicious meal.

We watched 3 episodes of Only Murders in the Building.  That was fun.  I will have to sign up for a free month trial of Hulu so that I can watch it.  

Friday in Ely

 

My coffee station.  It works pretty well.

View from the deck.

We had cereal with blueberries for breakfast.  

Deer eating the left-over bean plants.

We went on a nice walk. We checked out the trail that Jay has been working on.  It is very nice.  He has done a lot of work.

It is a constant job

We went into town to run a few errand and then it was time for lunch.

Jay had offered to take us out on the pontoon.  So we went down to get it ready to take out.  It is quite the process.  I wish I had taken a picture of it all covered.

The metal pieces that help hold the tarp up are from their old satellite dish.  How creative is that!?

We got it all set and ready then .... DEAD BATTERY!!! argh.  Jay got the battery out to take up to the house to charge it.  We just enjoyed our Smirnoff and the ambiance.

Maybe we will try again tomorrow. 

Jay was taking the canoe back up to the house to put away for the winter.

Jay went back to work clearing brush. We relaxed.  Jeanne was able to get some  work done.

Jeanne fixed dinner.  

Chicken Alfredo and home grown beans.

What a nice day, sunny and warm, a perfect fall day.

Thursday, Sept 29 to Ely

It looks like it will be another gorgeous day

Laura made crepes this morning.  There wasn't enough time for Liam and Emmet to enjoy them.  We sure did.  It was a pleasure to be able to spend some time at Laura and Wilhelm's.  They really made me feel welcome.  Laura is enjoying her time at home.  She has a year to enjoy being at home, before she has to be back at work.  She isn't getting paid but Epic guarantees that her job will be available when her year is over.

Nutella, bananas and more wild blueberries.  (Apparently, Wilhelm picked A LOT of them) 

Out of the way spot where Wilhelm parks the van

Jeanne and I packed up and left around 9 am to drive to Ely.  

The trees are starting to turn color.

We made several stops to get groceries at stores that are not in Ely like Woodman's in Eau Claire.  This was also a lunch stop.

We split a Reuben sandwich and fries.  It was a good sandwich.

Next stop was Virginia for another grocery store, Super One.

We arrived.  We got to Jeanne & Jay's about 6:30 pm. 

Jay was at a dinner we had planned to attend.  This was another disappointment due to my Covid.  Of course, if we could have gone to that we would have missed Laura's crepes!.  We would have left Laura's by 7am.

We had a nice dinner of left-over chicken fried rice.  Yummy.  It was nice to have a meal that was so quick.  We got laundry started and then ate.

Jay got home from the dinner.  He said that it was a big success.

In the evening we watched the Chicago episode of Somebody Feed Phil.  Jeanne had not watched it before.  It was a great review of where we had been.  Fun to see so many familiar places.  After that we watched the Portland episode.  I had not seen it before.  I was a little disappointed because many of the places they showed were not actually in Portland.  It felt like they did not think that Portland had enough to offer.  It was still fun.