Furlough autumn 2007

During the fall we like to spend our furlough (time when the government sees fit to lay employees off for about 6 weeks) visiting family and friends in the midwest. Here were some of the highlights of our last trip.


We headed up north to Iron River Wisconsin to do some more work on our little cabin. On this visit, we built a loft, insulated most of the wall space, finished insulating under the building, put up knotty pine walls, and got Scotty started on bowhunting.

We went to Staples for our annual gunhunting opener, and had a great time as usual and met with some success. Jenny shot a fawn and Scott shot his nicest buck to date, a nice 8 pointer. Jonny got a nice one too (scrub buck).

After visiting everyone, we headed east to visit our friend Kimberly near Green Bay and checked out Door County. Kimberly showed us a great time as always and she let us help her with her nightly feeding of her uncle's dairy calves. From there we headed south to Chicago to see Mike's art show. This painting was from his Lakeland series. The colors he chose were Scotty's house colors growing up along with another neighbors house color. You can check out more of his art on his web site.

From Chicago, we headed west to Moab Utah and hiked in Arches National Park. We had perfect weather and saw many amazing rock formations.

We stopped in Portland to visit Jolene, Erik, Aidan, and Morgan before catching the ferry home.