Wednesday and home. "It's Closed!!"

 

Some mornings just do not have much of a sunrise.  

Coffee, breakfast, showers, pack and then it was time to leave.  We were allowing enough time for a few little stops.  Also Jeanne wanted to be back home before it got dark.  

First stop was to drop off the trash.  They do not have trash pick up.  Then to the Log Cabin for our morning coffee.  It was closed!  Argh! I guess the owner hurt her back last week and it must not be better yet. 

So we went to the Front Porch instead for our coffee.

It was 9 am when we left Ely.  Next stop was Tobies' Bakery (not counting restroom stops).  I was looking forward to their Cinnamon Roll French Toast.  It sure was a pretty drive.  Not as brilliant as last year when I was out, but still nice.

We got to Tobies' right at noon, to find that the restaurant was closed for a private party.  Hardeys, DQ, McDonalds all closed because not enough workers.  The drive through was open with the Taco Bell so we did that.  We ate in the car.  Not quite the same.  After that nothing else was closed. ;-)

I asked Mary Prescott to be the zoom host for the Super Wednesday Zoom.  She was ok with that, so once I got on I got her on as host.  That worked out great.  We could chat while I was in the car.  As we got close to the airport I left the zoom and they continue to chat.  

Coming into Minneapolis.

Jeanne dropped me off at 2 pm.  She should be able to get home before it gets dark.  My gate was VERY close this time.  

I had time for a glass of wine and time to work on my blog and work on other computer things.  Since I was in a restaurant, I did not need to have my mask on.  

I got into Portland a little aftr 5 pm.  I heard that Jeanne arrived safely at home.  I got on the MAX and was at Nathan's by 6:30pm for dinner.  George met me there.  Then home.  

Tuesday

 I woke up to the actual full moon

After our morning coffee and breakfast, we went down to the bay to see if the boat needed to be bailed again because of the rain yesterday.  There was only an inch or so of rain in the boat so it did not take long.

Jeanne's bay is off of the Kawishiwi River.  No name.

Jeanne has been having a problem with their freezer.  It is filling up with water in the bottom.  So we took every thing out and put it in the freezer in the basement.  30 stair steps ... 8 times!!

Jeanne had turned it off and left it open.  By then it was lunch time.  After lunch we headed into town to do some errands. We stopped by Eddie's place to give him some banana bread. We checked the rain guage before we left.

2 inches of rain over the past week.

Ma, see what I caught!

We parked at the Veteran's memorial

Then walked the Trezona trail.  It was connected with the Mesabi Trail.  

It is a 4 mile loop but we only did a part of it.

Miner's Lake.  Man-made lake from the Chandler iron mine.

Can't have a day without deer

Old Miner's Dry, which has been renovated to be an event center. A "dry" is where the miners would change out of their wet mining clothes.  

Ahhh! All the chairs and tables were made by the local high-school students.

When we came home the ice at the bottom of the freezer had melted enough that we could get the bottom shelf out and we could remove chunks of ice.  About a dozen towels later and it was all cleaned and dried.  We started bringing a few things to put back in.  That will be Jeanne's job later. 

Jeanne made banana bread.  She makes a lot of banana bread. 

She made a delicious broccoli cheddar quiche for dinner. Yummy.  

After dinner our movie choice was "It's Complicated".  We had not seen it before.  Neither of us were impressed.  

Notice the photo theme - moon and deer.

Monday September 20 - Good news

 

Very orange sky this morning.

The camera did not do justice to the lighting

After breakfast, Jeanne was on the phone doing all the things that couldn't be done on Sunday.  Jake was scheduled to come pick up the Subaru between 10 and 11 today.  We arranged to meet Margie at the church at 8 am on Wednesday so that she could drive us to Duluth to pick up the car.  The Subaru people are all on board with this plan.  Jeanne will pay Jake and then submit the bill for reimbursement.  We got all the stuff out of the Subaru. to prepare for the towing and repair. She also reported the damage to the mail box to the local Sheriff.  

Jake called to let us know that he was on his way with the tow truck.  When he got there he started checking things out.  He said that sometimes with a fuel pump that after sitting a while it may start.  He was right.  He got it going, so, no tow truck needed and no charge!  We needed to drive it some so he followed us to the gas station to make sure that it would run ok.  We needed to gas anyway.  After that it seemed to work fine.

We checked out the mailbox on our way home.  The neighbor, Eddie, had done a pretty good job of straightening it all out.

Wow.  Impressive.  Great neighbors.

We had lunch.  Jeanne made more phone calls.  This time to cancel many of the previously made plans.  Then we headed out to dink and run some errands.  

cool art store

I always like coming in here.

Then it was time to head off to Bev & Dan's home for game day.  They usually play 2 - 5 pm every Monday. They alternate homes and who brings treats.

the lake in front of their house.

Garage

A very nice house and well landscaped

Bev & Dan playing Rummy Joke

It started pouring while we were there.  It had been sprinkling on and off all day.

The welcome to Ely sign.  

No moon pictures tonight.  We watched a movie.  "The Queen Bees" is a cute movie.