All day - just going from one thing to the next

Today is Saturday, so it's Dump Day, of course.  A quick trip to the marina and we found that the circle drive was so full of people and cars with boats, that it was almost too crowded to get through.  So the holiday weekend has begun and the fishermen are out on the lake!  It's one of those days when it's 70˚ up at our house and 46˚ down at The Lake, 2 miles away.  You can just feel the cold air from the lake colliding with the warm air coming up from the south.

We put in a few more hours this morning painting the Town Hall pavilion, adding more Town Hall Green to the posts and trim.  We left about noon, but we hear that the painting continued until about 6pm tonight.  That old wood just sucks up the paint, and they had to go buy two more gallons of white paint.  It should be done soon!

Then home to wait for our guests - Leann's Mom, two sisters and nephew.  But first I made a new batch of our granola, seen below.  Oatmeal, slivered almonds, coconut, dried cherries, cranberries, apricots, and honey to bring it all together.  Tastes great with yogurt and all ready for summer guests!

Homemade granola out of the oven and cooling

Leann's family came in her sister's pickup pulling a trailer loaded with a new (to us) riding mower and a new (for real) snowblower for next winter.  No more little city-sized snowblower! Next year we'll be able to make paths all over the farm!  But let's not think about snow anymore for a while.

Then, to our surprise, while using the new mower in our orchard, Leann's sister came back carrying something in her hand.  Morel mushrooms! (we think...)  We have NEVER seen morels ANYWHERE here in Port Wing.  Then they went back to look for more, and found another one.  They weren't very fresh, so we're going to dry them a little and crumble them under the tree where they were found.  Maybe the spores will make more for next year...now that we know they can be found here!

We finished off the night with a campfire and s'mores out in our newly-mown back yard, a gathering that lasted until long after dark.  While we watched the fire, we heard all kinds of "night sounds" - cows bellering on the neighbor's farm, frogs "peeping" in the woods, some kind of wild animal with a high, shrill distressed bark, and even some sirens - kind of a rare sound up here, but maybe not so rare on a big holiday weekend like this.

It was a full day.  We'll see what we can find for fun tomorrow!