We are always looking for new places to fish and/or kayak. A coworker told me about Kiser Lake in Champaign County just past Urbana. 

One of the many things Bobby and I have in common is that we HATE surprises, especially birthday party surprises. I asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday and of course he said a nice quiet day of fishing. We haven't been able to fish as much as we would like with his new job so off we went. 

With travel baseball there isn't a lot of time to tend to our garden. We did manage to get 2 okra plants to grow. Tomatoes and onions were abundant, and the brussels sprouts are almost ready to harvest. 

One of my newly tried and favorite vegetable is okra - especially pickled okra.  Even our 14 year old eats them!

A bucket list item of mine (Kathy) was to stay on a houseboat. When I was in my early 20's (a very long time ago),  my boss owned a houseboat at Lake Cumberland and one of our employee benefits was to be able to use it for free for a week. At that time, I wasn't really sure what a houseboat was, figured I couldn't drive one anyway, so I never took him up on his offer. I quickly regretted that! 

July 24, 2021 I got to cross a houseboat off my bucket list! And drive it!
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We woke up fairly early this morning to get some steps in. We have been wanting to locate Hart Cemetery in Hilliard so we set out to find it. As a child, Bobby visited the cemetery with his elementary class but over the years, Hilliard has grown so much and buildings are taking over we didn't know the exact location. 
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We are soooo glad we purchased these for our houseboat trip to Dale Hollow. There isn't cell service on most of the lake. We also had a pontoon and it was nice to have these when some of the passengers were on the pontoon and the rest were on the houseboat.

​Even better was the fact that the workers at the dock we rented the boats from were on the same channel and could hear us. So thumbs up to this investment!