Carol and Dick’s potluck group heading out for a night on the water.

The gangs all here! This potluck group has been getting together since 1958, many happy memories together.

Congratulations Andrew for the nice small mouth bass caught today. We are so excited that the small mouth bass population is coming back on White Birch Lake!

17 inch, 2 1/2 pound small mouth bass.

Caleb and Russell were very proud of the crayfish they caught.

Having fun in the water catching crayfish.

With all our repeat guests this group has become really good friends and it’s always hard to say good-bye after a great week of having fun together. The good-bye lasted about 1/2 hour in the parking lot.

Hugs, tears and laughter!

Tucker and Charlie giving a "chicken fight hug".

John and I finally made it out on the water Saturday. Our boys joined us for a night of fishing. It was a beautiful night and with the water levels good we had no problem getting the pontoon boat through the channel.

Enjoying family time together.

John caught a musky on his new walleye rod. It was about 32 inches in length.

We are all so excited that the telephone company is offering DSL to our area. We are all hooked up and all our network router issues have been resolved.  Now when the rain is falling and it’s cloudy outside you can still connect to the internet. Good-bye satellite! We hope you will enjoy the faster speed and constant connectivity, I know we sure do!

We had a bad router that was only allowing us on certain websites and the blog was one it didn’t like, so we apologize for the few posts lately. I’ve saved up pictures and will add them today.

Wishing everyone a Happy 4th of July.  Currently it’s raining here at WBV, but hopefully it will clear up by tonight for those going into town for fireworks.

One of the many flags waving around our property.

The playground is finished except for the shingles on the one tower roof. It has gotten a lot of use in the past week! Kids have been enjoying it from sunup to sundown!

It's finished!

The rock climbing wall

Having fun climbing!

The playground continues to move forward. By Monday the spiral tube slide and the preschool slide should be in place. The tire swing went up today, no pictures of the tire swing yet as it rained most of the day (YEAH!!!) today and I couldn’t get any photos taken. The pictures posted here were taken yesterday.

Swing extension. There will be 3 swings on the new playground.

The 2 towers, the tire swing will hang in the middle.

The view from the old bridge. The monkey bars will be on the left side.

After a flat tire on the trailer was replaced the raft made its trek out of winter storage to its rightful place on the lake.

Using the tractor to push the trailer is the only way to get the raft to the boat launch.

John guiding the raft in.

Chris taking the raft out of the channel

A leisurely swim?

Shallow enough to walk it around the point.

Securing it into place

Closing the trap door and now it's ready for the swimmers!