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I just got my second Moderna shot on Wednesday, so I tried to be hydrated and take it easy. I missed fishing on Saturday morning, but couldn't waste the beautiful U.P. spring weather entirely. We drove eastward along the lake shore this time. Found two hands full of morel mushrooms at our old spots, plus forest floors filled with trillium.Put another 250 miles yesterday to take a day trip to the other Grand Marais, this time in MI. We got to take part in the first official day of "back to normal, mostly" at a bar.Today, another gorgeous spring day, we played on our home ground. Still, enchanted by the sweet smell of trailing arbutus in woods.Amused by yet another small part of the same big lake. We swear it was too nice a weekend to do housework.... Hopefully we both got recharged enough for another week of work!
Joe had to give up part of his vacation week, but he was able to have the 5th off from work. We fished Apple Creek, my first day this trout season, in the morning. We actually caught a few fish, ranging 10 to 15 inches. Decent, but we were hoping for much bigger steelhead, like 20-30 inchers. We weren't however expecting to find morel mushrooms... it hasn't been very warm at night. Spring time in the woods is fun because we run into different wild flowers and plants. Later we checked out our local lake shore and found it was filled with sand... and it's still the same big lake!And today we celebrated Cinco de Mayo a day late at home. Cheers!
Though we couldn't travel to Japan again this year, we drove 400 miles along Lake Superior shore towards the Minnesota-Canadian border for a mini vacation. Still amazing how big Lake Superior is. The MN Shore is much more ragged, but the weather patterns are similar to ours. It was 80 degrees on Saturday, then back to 40-45.We checked out High Falls on Pigeon River, which divides the US on left and Canada on right. Gone as far north as we could...and turned around. Even though our trip was short, we managed to enjoy a handful of good eats. Last night we found a cozy hang out spot, too.The best part was that we stayed two full days right on the lake, before the summer vacationers arrived.
