I've realized that it's much more fun reading blogs with pictures. So in continuing my effort to show you all of the wonderful goings-on in Lake David, here are highlights from the past week.

Tuesday night: Twin vs. Braves at the Metrodome (big thank you to Dan and Becka and Luggage World for the nice seats!)

The grand celebration after the bottom of the 9th comeback and victory!

Saturday

Roofing project at Cory's phatty bachelor pad



Party on the roof!!



Wow, there were a lot of ladders!

Don't jump!



Christine with the Staple flogging machine:

Finish the night off with some Liberty frozen custard!

Over a 4-day Memorial Day holiday weekend, we went to Cathedral of the Pines on Caribou Lake in Lutsen, MN. It is Mt Olivet's camp property on the Superior North Shore which they've owned since the late 1940s.

The annual opening weekend activities included gratuitous eating, deep cleaning the cabins, getting a dozen lawn mowers and whip wackers working, repairing broken screens and screen doors, replacing dead light bulbs and more. This place houses 200 campers per week all Summer long, so the chore list was very long but it was fun team work, and nice being outside of life's daily amenities for a few days.

Enjoyable activities included 2 visits to Grand Marais, a camp fire with s'mores, a softball game, trivial pursuit and a 500 pc candybar jigsaw puzzle.

View my Cathedral of the Pines photo journal!

This year was my first adventure to visit Art-A-Whirl and it was memorable!

Art-A-Whirl is an open-studio and gallery tour of Northeast Minneapolis. It is a sprawled out festival open to the public to enjoy a taste of art being produced in NE Mpls.

More than 400 artists participated, including potters, tile makers, painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, glass blowers, printmakers, and textile designers. They showcased their art in warehouses, homes, storefronts and cafes. (from nemaa.org). An old school trolley circled the neighborhood to bring art-goers from one stop to another.

For event details, visit the NEMAA Art-A-Whirl homepage!

or the about.com abbreviated description.

or check out this massive list of Mpls art galleries!

or visit Citypages' lively write-up.

Also enclosed is the event map (just click Download). Of these locations, Christine and I visited the Grain Belt Bottling House, the Keg House Arts Building, 6 floors of the California Building, and one other gallery on the route.

Special finds and highlights:

~ Top Ten ways to relieve stress and anxiety

~ Video of 100 foot steamroller "stamping" or ink-pressing a hand-carved design

~ Tile/mosaic shop with a gorgeous lamp table and coffee table

~ Complimentary chocolates, fruits, cheese & crackers, bottled water and red vines

~ first visit to the Mill City Cafe

~ decorate your own baton?

~ 30 new cards for David's business card collection

~ Susan's art in the basement, lovely reds, oranges, yellows

~ The photographer's 6th floor suite looking out at downtown Minneapolis

~ Flippy ancient windows

~ lots of iMacs

~ a trumpet (and trap set and guitar) in an artist's studio; same artist had sever thousand original records in what was presumed a valuable collection

~ "the bathroom gallery"

Last Friday I enjoyed watching all my money vaporize as experts from Southside Electric brought the electrical capacity of our garage and yard to the 21st century. We tore out all the electrical in the garage, including the hazardous service lines, installed a new circuit, buried a new rigid conduit under our yard, added 4 new outlets, 2 lights in the garage, a double flood on the back corner of the house with a 3-way switch to the garage, and an outdoor GFI receptacle. Boy was this fun to watch.

All new switches inside the service entry


"Where did the steps go?"


"Oh, there they are in the yard. Good time to do some repair work on them!"


"WOW!"

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