July 2010 at Lake Fenton

It has been a long time coming but I am going to try to catch up with my blogging . I may jump around a bit with the dates. I have lots of pictures so I'll try to load the blogs with lots of photos. I will start with last summer.

Our family of swans come to visit. It is the same family that comes every year.  We know this because they "call" us by name and consider us friends [OK, we are just a meal ticket] .  Actually if they are within range we just say "Hey, come on in". They leave a wake getting to us. 

During July 2010, family from California arrive transforming our house into Party Central..  Non -stop people 24 hours a day. All the water activities repeat every day.  Tubing, skiing, Kayaking, wake boarding and this year Gary brought his long board from Wisconsin and discovered surfing the wake behind Lisa's boat Oh yes, there was just plain old swimming and relaxing on floats..

Daughter Lisa and her Grandson Trypp are regular visitors all summer. Trypp really enjoys the lake.  He is an easy going happy child. 

The photos below are some of the day and night action on our new deck.

The Palm Tree, Mike sent from California just to show Tina what a real Palm Tree is, not the cheesy plastic one she has in her yard. We added lights just for show. We had a great time with this all summer.  In spite of all that harassing Tina took "custody" of this Tree for the winter and she is charged with keeping it alive until next year.

With the deck full , we used the annex
[ yard]

 Gary entertained us every day and night with his singing and playing.

Trying out the long board.

Lisa's famous Boat  "The Moomba"

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Best buddies, Bob and Mark.

Best Buddies Dennis and Chloe

The "Girls" hang out.  Chloe, Kelly, Hannah.

The Young Adults play President and Butt Heads..It escapes me why, but they love this game.

One of the days was cold and rainy, as we were headed off the lake we had to rescue another pontoon and tow them to the farthest end of the lake...  You can see how much we enjoyed this journey.  After dropping the helpless off we had Kevin and Dennis shelter us with towels and we real cranked it up to get back to warm, dry shelter.

The  Helpless Pontoon

Kevin says he is not cold.  The rest of us were freezing.

I guess Tina was happy,, or was it beer?

Gary had to return to our house to load up his long board even though we tried to hide it on him.

 This was at lunch on the way to airport, I am really hoping these faces mean they do not want to leave Grandma's house., not a indication of their visit.

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Tina loving the Palm Tree