You blink and a week has passed by!

I was right.  It WAS a busy week with B&B guests, visiting cousins from Missouri and Kansas, and all kinds of preparations leading up to Lake Superior Days yesterday and today.  The days and evenings went by so fast and nothing was posted to the blog! So here are some of the highlights:

First, stringing ropes around the entire Town Hall to get ready to hang quilts for the upcoming Quilt Show.  Then on Wednesday, all the quilts arrived.  It was quite a process!

Here is the start.  More photos coming tomorrow when I post other weekend pictures.

Leann picked strawberries at Johnson's Berry Farm, then we made two batches of strawberry jam...and strawberry shortcake for my cousins, strawberries and ice cream, and still more strawberries in the fridge!  

And the garden is growing.  I never noticed how pretty potato blossoms are.  These are from the Kennebecs, the lavender ones below are from the Red Pontiacs, and the Yukon Golds aren't blooming yet.  

 We mowed the final loop on our trails because my cousins were hiking them in the mornings.  It wasn't until the last day that they noticed the presence of wood ticks on their shoes and clothing.  Nothing attached though so they should be okay.

We're still on Monarch Watch and taking note of all the caterpillars on the milkweed plant.  No chysalis[es] yet though.  

Brought the cousins to Village Inn in Cornucopia for dinner and checked out Siskiwit Falls after dinner.  Unfortunately, as soon as I led them down the bank to see the rest of the falls, Leann saw a bear cross the road behind us.  Oh, well, just missed that one!

Not sure what was happening at the marina tonight, but that is a person at the top of that mast repairing something.  I don't know how he got up there, but Leann saw that he was tethered to it somehow.  

And finally, here is our neighbor walking on water.  Okay, he's on his stand-up paddleboard.  He paddles every day on one of the bodies of water connecting to Lake Superior, or on Lake Superior itself.  He's really sold on paddling as a great way to stay healthy and connect with nature.  I think I'd be IN the water...often...

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Tomorrow: Highlights of Lake Superior Days