I'll be arriving in Duluth Saturday 9/9 and a few of us will get together for dinner at Duluth Grill. Please join us if you can. I have a long travel day, but should be there and ready for dinner by 6:00, barring unforeseen travel delays. If you can make it, email me with Duluth dinner and your forum name in the subject. I hope we can get a pretty good group together this year.

That will be good food and good company... lookin forward to it.

If anybody wanted to, you could come up to my place and camp, and we could ride together for the evening to Duluth. Just throwing that out there.

As of now there is a decent chance that I can make it. Little duckling's soccer looks good for that weekend but that could change as teams have until this Friday to reschedule games and usually 1 or 2 of the games get changed from the original schedule. I'll have a better idea next weekend.

Hoping to meet you boonie and it would be great to see you again Ben.

Hope you can make it, ducks. If you do, maybe there'll be "roast duck" on the menu! ;). I'll be there, inspector13, and nctry. Puffin Gin and Round River were also there last year. I'm hoping they'll make it again, but haven't heard. Pete (pswith5) is a possibility.

Be paddling in on the eighth, miss it by a day. Heading in on Brant.

Have a good trip, housty! One of these days schedules will mesh . . .

What's your trip plan through Brant?

Sounds good. I'll plan to join you. Will be good to see Ben again, as well.

Good, I was hoping you'd make it again Mike. Ginny will be there again and Karen (Hawbakers) too. Looking forward to it.

I was doing a job search and got lost on the internet. I saw a light and found myself here. See you next week.

bummer.......... I'm not going to make it. Now we have a late afternoon game that day. Have fun!!!

bummer, dude! :) You're just going to have to take a day off from your life sometime and enjoy an "alternate reality" ;).

bump . . . It looks like 6 or 8 of us right now. Anybody else?

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It'll be tight... my friend's funeral is at 2 Saturday so I should be able to get there ok.

quote nctry: "It'll be tight... my friend's funeral is at 2 Saturday so I should be able to get there ok. "

We'll save you a seat, Ben.

Crap! Just saw this tonite! Would have been there! Hope you had a great time. Also, have a great trip!

Had? It's tomorrow.

Wish I could be there tonight. Have fun!!!

Birthday party for a friend's miracle baby that just turned 1 after spending the first 3 months of it's life at Children's Hospital and they didn't think was going to make it. Now he is a happy 1 year old doing everything a toddler should be doing. After that it's off to a soccer game.

I plan to be there just before 6 pm. Don't know if they take reservations. Many places don't on weekends so I guess I'll just ask after Boonie or bwca.com group.

Had a great time visiting and eating with Boonie (Steve), Inspector 13 (Steve), Pete (sometimes known as Steve to me at least, even though he has a brother Steve), and Karen. Sorry Ben wasn't able to make it but we all know how important it is to honor our friends by going to funerals. The Steves, including Pete, are up north on way to their canoe trips; Karen should be home from her time up north. Enjoyed seeing y'all and wish you great paddling. Here's a photo outside the Duluth Grill after we'd filled our stomaches.

Yes, I was so happy to get to meet up with Boonie again. It is always a pleasure to meet up with friends new and old. I finally got to meet Ginny and I had a wonderful evening in Duluth with Pete and Steve, too! I had a camera, too so here is my pic with Ginny and the guys. and a view from Enger Tower.

nice photos! sounds like a good get-together. looks like the weather will hold up for upcoming trips.

boonie and all,
I'll try to make it in 2018.
I'm leaving Alaska for Duluth in 6 weeks. (Retiring).
Looking forward to it next year.

quote PuffinGin: "Had a great time visiting and eating with Boonie (Steve), Inspector 13 (Steve), Pete (sometimes known as Steve to me at least, even though he has a brother Steve), and Karen. Sorry Ben wasn't able to make it but we all know how important it is to honor our friends by going to funerals. The Steves, including Pete, are up north on way to their canoe trips; Karen should be home from her time up north. Enjoyed seeing y'all and wish you great paddling. Here's a photo outside the Duluth Grill after we'd filled our stomaches. "

Who is who, left to right?

Steve (Boonie), Pete (pswithfive), Karen (Hawbakers), Steve (Inspector13)

I was so discussed Saturday night. The funeral was for a friend from here like Jan was to the bwca.com community. When they did the last call through dispatch there were guys just bawling. Earlier in the day I'd failed to finish getting the plate on for the trusses as the framing was so time consuming. I was ready to give up for the day and tried to give up. I called my buddy Pete who told me he'd be there at eight with his excavator to lift the trusses. He brought several guys and here is what I ended up with...










The reason this is a big deal is after next Thursday's surgery I'm done until possible foul weather season. So this put me on pace to get it closed in enough for what will keep the building going come winter.