Friday, August 5, 2011

Temple Bay Lodge on Eagle Lake – Ontario (July 2011) part 2

 

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Sunset photo taken from the porch of our cabin. The dock area as seen from the balcony on the Lodge. Naturally our boat was on the far left side about as far as you could walk out.

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Inside the cabin. Two rooms (bathroom in the back) was plenty when all of the meals are included with the trip. John holds up one of the Northern Pike we brought back.

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This Northern Pike that Mona caught was just in the slot size that had to be returned to the water. The next photo she holds a walleye that didn’t get so lucky.

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Mona was bartender here as she makes up a couple of Whisky Old Fashion Sours. Great touch before heading to the dining room for supper. One of our neighbors from the Milwaukee area took this photo of us on our front porch. (Why is my drink darker than hers?)

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John pulls in a Walleye as the guide looks on  John caught and released a Musky. It’s the first Musky we caught in 5 trips to Canada. Little guy was only about 13 inches long though.

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Our guide caught here cleaning fish for shore lunch. The rest of the meal is already being cooked as he takes time out to do this. He has his secret egg and breading mixture that he coats the fish with before it goes in the frying pan.

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The fish being cooked to a golden brown and finally dinner is served. A nice slab of onion tops off the bread as we served this buffet of food. There are some things that I didn’t have room on my plate for.

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Mona finds a chair along the shoreline to eat her dinner. This little squirrel even got his share of the left-overs as the guide was packing up all his cooking materials. This little guy is stranded on an Island probably from winter so I’ll bet he enjoys it when people stop to visit him. Everything was gone when Mona and I went back the next day to use the bathroom there.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

DURBEN REUNION 2011… another one in the books

The 2011 Reunion has come and gone. Turn out was pretty good. The weather was hot with a few rain drops every once in a while but it looked like everyone enjoyed themselves. The food was good and plentiful. (Grilling was done by Chef Doug.) The event was sponsored by Toni Durben this year at her house in Darboy.

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Once I get more time, I’ll try to post more photos. If anyone else wants to share some of their photos, please get them to me. I’m sure there’s a lot of good ones out there.

(The John M. Durben Family will host the event in 2012.)

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Reminder - 2011 DURBEN FAMILY REUNION

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Where: W5641 Michelle Way, Appleton, WI 54915

Noon Picnic Dinner: Bring a dish to pass (hamburgers, brats, hot dogs, chicken breast furnished by Douglas) BOYB (Bring your own Beverage).

Plates, forks, knives, spoons will also be furnished.

Relatives from Texas, Florida, California and possibly Ohio (Mitizie is not sure if she will come) will be in attendance. Everyone is looking forward to a GREAT get-together.

Please inform members of your family (brothers, sisters, children) .

Photos from 2010…

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Whole Bunch of Pictures from the 2nd Neverman Family Reunion (2011)

As promised here are a few more photos from the big event. If anyone else has some they’d like posted – get them to us so we can do so. Of course you will get credit for your efforts. The photos may look pretty small so click on them to make them bigger…

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Some of the people were taken up with the Monopoly Card game. Actually playing until 11:30 P.M. and starting again in the early A.M. hours.  Looks like there may be a new tradition? (Heard there’s been a few card games purchased since then.)

Saturday evening we started going through some of the slides from Hawaii back when Mona and Walter were young. The fourth photo up on the left are Harvey and Bernice; too bad the slide show had to end early after the projector malfunctioned, it would have been great to see all of the photos because all the rest of us that weren’t on that trip in (69?) will perhaps never be able to see them now.

Although we were still only going together – I remember sending Mona off with her parents at the Airport in Manitowoc.

The next reunion date has been set for next year.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Chippewa Flowage #2 - 2011

John caught and released a small Northern Pike midway through the week. The weather hasn’t been cooperating this year like it normally has. Between the rain and thunderstorms and wind – we’ve been spending time watching TV.

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Small Northern Pike-released.

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Mona and Brew as we spend a little extra time in the cabin because of the weather – We are fare weather fishermen.