October 6, 2008

The rain and winds during the night cleared the trees of most of their leaves. The colors were beautiful - the oranges and browns with hints of green reminded us that fall is here!

We packed up the truck and headed home!

October 5, 2008

Since it's raining - we couldn't do much outside. So after breakfast, we went to town to buy more stuff that we really could do without. This "really" is different than the stuff we bought yesterday! Had luch and relaxed the rest of the early afternoon. Carlo caulked the eaves - another valiant effort to weatherproof the cabin. 

After dinner we got things together to leave for home in the morning.

October 4, 2008

The day started with cool crisp air and blue skies. After breakfast I put some filters I had bought onto my camera lenses. We headed off to Wal-Mart to pick up more stuff we could do without. After lunch we some chores...brought in the wind chimes, put the rockers away, covered the patio set and blew the leaves. There were a lot of leaves! Carlo installed a vent under the house. We borrowed a log splitter from Paul and the split the trees we cut down the last time we were at O'Wich. It wasn't nearly the amount of work that I thought it would be, except we had to take all the chunks of tree out of the wood crib and put them on the ground...split them and put them on the ground and then re-stack all the split wood in the crib. But we were done in a little over an hour. Now, we'll have plenty of wood - unless someone "borrows" some!

October 3, 2008

Finally a weekend at O'Wich! We got off to a late start but had a good ride. The normal traffic and of course - construction! 45 mpg through it and it only put us behind about 8 minutes. The one good thing about construction...no speeding tickets! Crossing over the river, we noticed it was rather high - Always a bit of stress until we see everything is okay - and it was! 

We arrived in time to catch General Hospital and have lunch. Thank goodness we bought an antenna for the tv.

We did a little grocery shopping and then visited Paul and Betty to deliver some freshly baked houska. After dinner we just kicked back. Our favorite thing to do after working all night and then traveling!

August 23, 2008

This trip involved cutting a couple of trees. The bark of this tree was falling off and a bat flew from it when we starting working on it. It was a lot of work, but we'll be warm for the winter. The tree was pretty dried out; soon we'll have to split it....sounds like more work is coming!

The river has gone down a lot. The sandbars are visible and you'd never know there was such a massive amount of destruction just 6 or so weeks earlier.

The fence is along the road from County Hwy O to the cabin. One day we spotted this enormous wasp next hanging on it. The thing was the largest nest I've ever seen.

June 27, 2008

       

Here's that barn again. The water didn't go down much in two weeks.

This sign is letting us know that the road is closed. Yep, it was under water.

The is a view of the river. Generally, this is full of sandbars!

June 10, 2008

  

This is a barn that we pass on the way to O'Wich. The floods were damaging.  Lake Delton, which is in the Dells, crumbled and flooded the entire area. This barn is off of 108 and we were amazed at the amount of water...and concerned about what we may find once we arrived.
 

This is a view of the river as we cross the bridge just before our exit. 

Luckily, our troubles were small in comparison to others in the Dells and Portage area.