On April 23rd Terry and I went crappie fishing on Prior Lake. We spent all morning looking for crappie, but all we could catch were bass and sunfish with just one crappie, so it was time to hit some other spots and see if we could get into the crappies. After spending a couple of hours checking out other spots we found a bay where they were biting and ended up catching over 50 crappies in an hour and a half. We ended the day catching 103 crappie, sunfish and bass. (Sandy here---only an obsessed fisherman would count every single fish!)
This was one of several Smooth Softshell Turtles along the shore. From the size, this was a female as the maximum size of males is about 9 inches in diameter and this one looked to be over 12 inches in diameter.
Here is Terry landing a "Terry" size crappie, you have to look real hard to see this fish. The next time out I will have to take a picture of a "Dave" size crappie. We did catch several in the 10.5 to 11 inch range.
We have been thinking about replacing Sandy's car with a SUV of some sort. After looking around we settled on a Buick Enclave. It can be towed 4 wheels down so if we decide not to haul a boat in the pickup we could take the Enclave instead.
Something that has been in the back of Sandy's and my mind the last few months is to start looking for a small townhouse back in the Lakeville/Apple Valley area. On Friday (May Day) we contacted Chuck Ryan, a realtor/developer, who built and sold our last home. We went over our criteria and the areas we wanted to live in. He said he would get some information for us and that there were three homes in our old neighborhood. So Sandy and I drove over to look around. We called Chuck to say we would like to look at the two that were vacant. The first house was of no interest to us, but as we were walking back to our car a friend and former neighbor of ours, Brad, drove by and then stopped and visited with us. He mentioned that his house was still for sale.Then, after looking at the second house we came out and ran into Jack, a friend and former next door neighbor, who was walking by and also visited with us for a while. There went the hope that we could house hunt unnoticed. This home was very nice, but at the very top of our price range.
The next morning we got up and called Chuck and said we would like to look at Brad and Connie's home. As Chuck had a baseball thing that was going on all day with his son, we had to get a 9:30 AM appointment, sorry about that Brad. The size, 1562 main floor, is what we were looking for. Total finished area of 2464 square feet and, as everything Brad and Connie have, it's immaculately kept and maintained.
In the evening we went out for supper and then to the Vince Gill concert at Mystic Lake with Jerry and Donna. The concert was great. Too bad I forgot my camera.
One of the bad things about being at Mystic Lake is that it is 16 miles from our storage garage in Burnsville, so today we moved from Mystic Lake to the Lebanon Hills Campground in Apple Valley, which is 5 miles from the garage. But Lebanon Hills has a two week limit out of thirty days, so we do a lot of moving back and forth.
On Monday morning we went back to look at Brad and Connie’s home again. Well, we made an offer on the house this afternoon around 3:00 and we heard back at 4:42 that it was accepted. It looks like the closing will be on June 12th. This means we are moving back into the same townhome association we left 2 years ago to start this adventure we are on. Brad and Connie, we hope you don’t get too much heat for letting “Trailer Trash” back into the neighborhood.
That picture will scare the neighborhood.
While sitting here and composing, no more like stumbling my way through this Blog, I looked up and saw this young Turkey outside our window. I wonder if this is from the brood we saw last year?
On Thursday the 7th Terry and I went fishing and he finally caught a "Dave" size fish. Well, maybe it’s not the first time. We both caught a 13 inch crappie. We also caught five 11 inch crappies and the rest of the 20 fish limit was over 10 inches, so it was a pretty good day.
On Friday night we went out to supper with Jerry, Donna, John and Pat and then went over to Pat and John's to play cards.
Here are some “Spring has sprung in Minnesota” pictures. These beautiful maples and flowering crab trees are actually in a Burnsville cemetery, but we couldn't resist stopping by to take a few photos.
The time between post will be longer now that we are back in our home base.
Until next time.
Dave and Sandy
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