FINALLY BACK TO THE CREEK

WELL I FINALLY GOT BACK TO FISHING AND WADING BUFFALO CREEK BUT HAVE TO SAY IT WAS STILL HIGH FROM THE RAINS. QUITE A FEW MORE TREES IN THE CREEK AND STILL VERY LITTLE WILDLIFE BY THE CREEK. A FEW DUCKS AND ONE CANADIAN GOOSE. I GOT 13 FISH TODAY AND A FUN DAY UNTIL THE RAIN CHASED ME BACK UP BUFFALO. AS I WADED TO MY SPOTS I CAME UPON A 13 INCH BROWN TROUT BELLY UP. BUT HIS GILLS WERE STILL GOING SO I TURNED HIM OVER , GRABBED HIM BY THE TAIL AND MOVED HIM BACK AND FORTH TO GET WATER THROUGH HIM. THEN NESTLED HIM IN SOME GREENERY TO KEEP HIM UPRIGHT. CHECKED ON HIM LATER AND HE WAS GONE SO HOPEFULLY HE MADE IT.
WAS NICE TO SEE SOME OF THE FARMERS FINALLY GETTING THEIR CORN PLANTED AS I DROVE OUT TO MAZEPPA INCLUDING THE BRUBAKERS WHO BOUGHT OUR FARM.

PARADE

WHAT A WONDERFUL PARADE AND CEREMONY AGAIN THIS YEAR. SPEAKER WAS RON WAGNER WHO DOUBLES AS SCOUT LEADER AND LAY MINISTER.
SOME PHOTOS IN THE ALBUM. REALLY LOVED BILL AND SANDY BAKER IN THE GOLF CART AND GRANDCHILDREN BEHIND ON THE JOHN DEERES.

FIRST WADE OF THE YEAR

I ACTUALLY GOT WADERS FOR THE VERY FIRST AND FINALLY BROKE THEM IN TODAY. NO WAY I COULD HAVE WADED IN THE CHILLY WATERS TODAY WITHOUT THEM. WATER WAS A BIT HIGH AND THE CURRENT WAS SCARY STRONG AT SPOTS.
AND LOTS OF DOWNED TREES IN THE CREEK FROM ALL THE FLOOD WATERS THIS SPRING.
SAW GEESE...MERGANZERS AND A GORGEOUS BALTIMORE ORIOLE THAT KEPT WATCHING OVER ME. I CAUGHT 18 IN ALL BUT I LANDED A MONSTER SMALLMOUTH THAT REALLY MADE MY DAY. A 17 INCH SMALLMOUTH !!!

CELEBRITIES

WELL WE HAVE A FEW CELEBRITIES AS I SENT THE PICTURES FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS HAM AND EGG SUPPER TO THE LOCAL PAPERS AND THEY WERE KIND ENOUGH TO PUBLISH THEM . NICE TO PUT MAZEPPA ON THE MAP !!!

HAM AND EGG SUPPER

WELL I ACTUALLY MADE IT OUT TO THE WORLD FAMOUS MAZEPPA HAM AND EGG SUPPER LAST NIGHT. FOOD WAS GREAT AS EVER AND SO WONDERFUL SEEING OLD FRIENDS. LOOK FOR SOME PICTURES IN THE FOLDER.

DOROTHY BAKER

DOROTHY BAKER , WHO GROWING UP WAS A DEAR FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR IS NOW AT THE BUFFLAO VALLEY NURSING HOME AND THIS WEEK I STOPPED TO SEE HER. MARRIED TO LESTER FOR I THINK OVER 60 YEARS AND BETTER NEIGHBORS WE COULDN'T HAVE EVER HAD. WHAT A WONDERFUL VISIT WE HAD TALKING ABOUT OLD TIMES IN MAZEPPA AND WAS STUNNED TO FIND OUT DOROTHY ACTUALLY LIVED IN MONTANDON AT ONE TIME. ASKED DOROTHY IF SHE EVER GETS BACK HOME TO THE FARM IN MAZEPPA AND SHE SMILED.......YEAH I HAVE TO GET HOME OCCASIONALLY.....TOO MANY GREAT MEMORIES. THING I STILL CHUCKLE ABOUT IS THAT THE 2 COOKS WE HAD AT BUFFALO CROSSROADS ELEMENTARY WERE BOTH.........." BAKERS "

MUC CHILDRENS LIBRARY

WONDERFUL NEWS FROM THE MAZEPPA UNION CHURCH. LAST YEAR I HAD GIVEN THE CHURCH SOME MONEY ON TOP OF THE RENTAL OF THE HALL, FOR MY 50TH BASH. WANTED THEM TO DO SOMETHING FOR THE CHILDRENS SUNDAY SCHOOL IN HONOR OF ROBERTA. GOT WORD THIS WEEK THEY PLAN TO START A CHILDRENS LIBRARY AND THE FIRST BOOKS HAVE BERTS NAME IN IT ALONG WITH HELEN STAHL WHO WE JUST LOST. HAVE TO THINK BOTH HELEN AND BERT ARE SMILING DOWN ON THE CHURCH AND THEIR DECISION : )