A Beautiful October Weekend

It was a great weekend...actually unbelievable for October. The temperature got up to 80 on Friday and Saturday.

Saturday, I was supposed to go to Iron Mountain to help with Cub Scout Training. I was about to leave when I checked my phone and discovered a voice mail message from the night before saying the training was cancelled due to insufficient sign ups. So I had a free day, or a retirement preparation day as I consider it.

The 11 year old Scouts were camping at Stuart and Beth's back yard, so I went to visit for a bit. Andrew and Austyn were part of the crew. I helped with some knot tying instruction. There were a half dozen boys there having a good time.

Buddy and I took a beautiful 2 1/2 hike- Wetmore Landing to Little Presque Isle along Lake Superior, up Harlow Creek to Harlow Lake, along the rugged east side of Harlow Lake with two beautiful outlooks, and back to Wetmore.

Susan and I went to Austyn's football game after lunch. He made a key tackle at the beginning of the 3rd quarter, but was down after the play. He laid there quite a while and an ambulance was called. He went to the emergency room to be checked out. He is wearing a neck brace for the sprained neck and has some soreness, but is okay.

With the beautiful weather, we went to the beach at Little Presque Isle with Angela's family. See her site for great pictures. Susan went in for a swim. The muscles in the calves of my legs cramped when I stepped in the water.

Everyone but Stuart and Austyn was in church Sunday, so that was very special.

I had to leave after church for a meeting of the Scout merger committee in Menominee. That took up the rest of the day. The meeting went well.

My camera is not working, I plan to replace it this week, but Angela and Sabrina do a great job with pictures on their blogs and Facebook pages, so visit those sites.