Almost done....

Well, the pergola is up, and the stone deck is almost finished as well. The fire pit is in place, and we are cooking with ...wood. It was so much fun, having everyone around the fire, a glass of wine, some hot dogs and marsh mellows.

It was a lot of work, and a lot of rock piles got cleaned up in the process.

Also, we really got to appreciate the view again. We hope to be able to spend lots of time there. And imagine, just sitting there , enjoying the outside and no mosquitoes.

Here are a couple of pictures of the fire pit. Mom ordered it online :)

It works well and looks amazing. You can see on the bottom picture the motive of grape vines. It shows up real nice in the dark, with a good blaze going.

Fun was had by all........

Fishing at Ben's Lake.....

We went trout fishing on Saturday past.It was organized by Paul and Patty Lynn Larsen. They offered a fishing trip for ten with a BBQ to finish of, at the Christian School Auction. So the farm bought it, and we all shared. Klaas, Alice, Andrew and Kenneth. And from our family we had Matt, Amanda, Damaris and me. It was a lot of fun and it was guaranteed to be successful. After all, it was fully stocked with nice big Rainbow Trout.
Catching them was slow at first, as it was a warm day. But by four o'clock, the first fish started to come out of the water. The first picture shows Matt and Amanda patiently waiting for that eluding first fish. That happened as soon as Alice gave her rod to Matt. Go figure.Matt caught one, but Amanda's fish just went to the other side of the lake. Best thing to do would be to follow it I would think. Below, you can see some of our crew trying hard to be patient.
And after Amanda went to the other side of the lake to try, she had better luck. Isn't it a beauty?

Weighing in at a whopping 11.68 pounds, it was one of the biggest fish caught that afternoon.

Not to be outdone by her sister, Damaris soon caught her own big one. Weighing in at over nine pounds, it was quite a catch as well. She has tried her hand at fishing for trout several times before, but this time it was successful.

Petra Larsen may have been the smallest person there, but she caught one of the biggest fish that afternoon. It weighed an amazing 12.8 lbs.

But the biggest one was caught by Kenneth. It's no fishy story either. His fish weighed 12.87 pounds. He didn't beat Petra by much.

After that, we went over to Point Prim for a BBQ with Paul and Patty Lynn. There was lots of food. Amazing hamburgers and hot dogs, followed by a very tasty desert of Raspberry shortcake and Ice cream. After all that, we rolled home again, a wonderful day was had by all.