~Trout Hatchery~

You can kinda tell I like where I grew up, in the UP of Michigan, God's
Country as we call it.. It is too.. Beautiful place. On the way out of town
on US 2 highway, going west, to 45 north to Watersmeet. You can tell
the Indian heritage up there by the names of the towns.. By Watersmeet
is the old highway US2, go east and you will come to the old fish hatchery
for trout.. We went there, David, Diane, Tim and I, it was great.
(David,Lois,Tim)

I looked at that photo a dozen times and not until today did I realize
that's me up there in the middle. Diane took the photo, usually I am the
photographer! The hatchery was bought by new people a few years ago,
the hatchery provides fish for eating or for to stock lakes, ponds, or
whatever. Good eating? That goes without saying.. Until you have actually
eaten fresh trout you have NO idea, good stuff.. :-)
(Tim, hatchery lady)

There were tons of fish in all sizes, the lunker pond was amazing the size
of the fish in there, the water just swirled around like it was alive when
you dropped food in and saw how huge the fish were..
Diane,Tim,hatery lady)
They give you this thin pole with just a hook on the end and they put
what looks like a piece of dog food on it and when you drop that in the
pond, well they go nuts, just drop the line in and pull it up and out just
that fast.
(Diane,hatchery lady, fish)

Then you got to pay for them and take home what you wanted, all cleaned
and prepared too... Which made it nice,just after I took this photo and
the lady had taken Dianes fish to put up for her, Diane walked back

to the edge there to catch another one, when she got up to it, her foot
slipped and Diane went swimming with all those fish.. As many fish as
there were I'm surprised that there was room for Diane.. I had just
turned and gone to go look at another part of the place and I missed
getting a photo of her falling in.. I wish I had.. :-) Diane was a klutz,
she kept us entertained.. :-)
(Trout Hatchery Now)

I went to the net to see what they had about the

hatchery and the area, put Watersmeet Trout Hatchery

into your browser, then you can read about it and all

the lakes, and attractions there, like the Paulding Light,

and Bond and Tequaminine Falls, and its on the way up to

the Porkies.. I hope they don't mind I borrowed their

photo... Big difference in then and now, which I am pleased

to see...

I had heard about this new PC to land phone called icall.. You

can call from anywhere in the WORLD to the USA and Canada

for free.. A dear friend phoned today to check out how the

connection is from Sweden, and it was wonderful.. The only

thing we noticed was the call was limited to 5 minutes, which

for free? Just recall after each 5.. easy.. I cant call anywhere

in the world for free but I can to the USA and Canada... And

I got this icall..on my land phone, from their computer and I

didn't have it installed on my computer YET. Its like skype.

They had it for free then stopped it.. You can voice chat, but

any other calls you have to pay for on skype now.. So anyway

icall works great!... :-)

Well this is my tale for today, I have done nothing but scan

those photos, wrote this, emptied my inbox and the rest of

the time I have just listened to music at some of my favorite

sites..although I found a new one last nite and theyre all MP3

and just great.. I only got through 1 category last nite so I

will have to finish today, Donnie phoned and he will be by this

evening after work. So I'm gonna play some solitare and wait

then its TV land and sleep.. I am still getting up at 5 every

day.. I wish the kids would reset their alarms.. Dutch starts

at 4 to try to wake me.. He knows all he has to do if hes

really desperate for breakfast is lick my eyes or sit on my

face and well ,,, who wouldn't wake up? smelly kittie butt

in your face :-) Time to finish and say my GORGEOUS
WEEBLE "nitey nite" :-)

Y'all have a good one now, Y'hear? love ya and Thanks :-)

Always, Lois ****

God Bless You, is my prayer today,

I'm so honored to call you "friend"

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

until I write again .....