After catching this impressive batch of crappies at Old Frontenac pond... |
... and looking south toward Gardners' home and treehouse. |
News and history from the Minnesota (Claus/Maria Augustine) Sprick and (William "Brother"/Alverna) Miller families. This scrapblog celebrates our best qualities and honors characters, oops, we mean CHARACTER. Your comments are welcome at pamelamarianmiller@gmail.com. (We've limited comments on the site itself because of spam.) Don't forget to click on "Older posts" at the bottom of the pages to see more postings. Longer documents are at www.thesprickfamilypapers.blogspot.com.
After catching this impressive batch of crappies at Old Frontenac pond... |
... and looking south toward Gardners' home and treehouse. |
Taken in summer 1997. Turtle the then-kitten was trying to get Noah to play with her rather than reading about his hero, Superman. |
Looking west toward the field, up the driveway into the garage area. |
Some pipes (water? natural gas?) are going in. Looking southwest. |
This will be the sliding-glass door leading from the great room to the screened porch. Looking southwest. |
Mike Willers' folks are making it happen. |
Swanie near the trail's end. |
Beavers have been busy changing the landscape in the area where one loop of the trail opens up along the sandy beach. The water is low after this summer of drought, and the beach is wide. |
A beaver's handiwork, or rather, toothy-work. |
Goodbye to the old outhouse and shed...they served us well. And, as Mom (Alverna Sprick Miller) used to say, "There's 50 years of history in that place!" |
Builder Mike Willers after ground was broken. You can see Mom and Dad's old place, now home to good neighbors Nathan and Jeananne, in the background. |
Ground is broken! Photo by old friend Karen Swanson, who is in Minnesota visiting family, and lucky for me, me. |
My dirt! My dream! |