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Please go and2 LIKE my new Century 21 facebook page. If you know anyone looking for property please steer them my way too. Thank You. Thusday May 17, 2012 2:00 p.m. About a half hour ago I had an update all typed up and ready to upload when something happened and I lost it all....darn I hate that when it happens.....so its a nice day in frederic, been pretty quiet around town. We spent the weekend camping at keystone landing east of grayling on the ausable where it was a picture perfect weekend. I did 3 seperate float trips down the rive in my canoe trying to hook some trout by the only jerk on my line was by the one holding the rod...We got Melissa off last week on her trip where she flew into Frankfort and then onto Munich, I have a video clip posted on my sledheads facebook site where you can see that where she was visiting the nuswhenstien castle. I like that Germany stuff it reminds me of Coney dogs,,,,flying into Frankfort and then to Vienna, it makes me hungry. I got my new copy of the new book Coney Detroit and have been enjoying reading that. I have been to alot of the places in there but it looks like I have alot to see yet. I am taking my coney cart out to Camp Grayling this weekend for an event that the grayling chamber puts on that is called Men who Cook...and you guessed it I am making coneys.....so thats about it for today. Thanks for chekcing in. Pete -------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday May 11, 2012 6:40 a.m. Its a big morning here at home as we are all up and getting ready, Haley is off to school and Cathy and I are taking Melissa to the airport in Grand Rapids to head off on her study abroad trip to Germany with Ferris. She is pretty excited and she is ready to head out on her big adventure. Nothing exciting has happened around town in the past week and I did sell alot of stuff at my sledheads yard sale last weekend but there is still alot left. Last night I ate some tasty beaver. That was my first time eating it and I have to say I was a little leary of it at first. Every year Clarence and Eddie Papendick put on their annual beaver dinner and I have been wanting to go for years but either forget or get there to late. There were about 50 people there and if you didnt know it was beaver you would have thought it was the best beef stew you ever had. Tender as can be. Clarence is an old timer who has been trapping a long time. He was telling stories last night of the wild game dinners that he would attend in grayling with the late great Fred Bear and that Fred would always have some different kind of wild game, and one time it was walrus which he said was pretty darn tough. There was still some stew left when I was leaving so I got a to go container for the mountain man. I am sure he will like that. A couple days ago I had a possum in the back of my truck and left the tail gate open all day long to try to coax him out. I drove all over that day and he stayed back there for over 12 hours. I even tried to give him to the mountain man for lunch but he still wouldnt come out. Finally after it got dark I went and checked and he decided to hop out of the truck. So thats about it for now. Gotta get dressed and head for GR...Thanks for checking in. Pete --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday May 5, 2012 10:00 a.m. Its sunny and cool here in downtown frederic this morning and I have to start out the day by wishing Happy 9th Birthday to Ellie the Diabetic and going blind Beagle.....we sang her happy birthday morning and she went crazy opening her presents we wrapped up for her....it seems that her sight is better some days then others but there is nothing wrong with her nose. We have been out scouting for mushrooms 3 times this week and while we found some there hasnt been any great finds. Yesterday and today I am having a yard sale here at the shop as I have been cleaning house. I have way to much junk and what ever doesnt sell here I am going to donate to the grayling rotary for their annual yard sale...I dont know why I am such a hoarder but it feels good to have gone thru most everything and get it a bit more organized. People kept coming in yesterday asking if I was going out of business......Melissa came home from finishing her first year at Ferris yesterday so its nice to have her back with us but only for a short time as she leaves for her study abroad trip to Germany next friday and we have to take her to the airport in Grand Rapids. This is where I have to say a big THANK YOU to all of you that donated to her trip as it really helped her out but it also really helped me out too...so THANKS AGAIN.... Last week when I was down at Ferris I went thru their new museum of Racist Memorabilia....It was very interesting and eye opening to the way things used to be. It is in the lower level of the Ferris Library and you would be surprised at the things that have been around over the years that you will remember. So now we are into our first week of May so only a little less than 7 months till the trails open up. Thanks for checking in. Pete ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday April 29, 2012 8:25 a.m. Its a nice cool sunny morning here at Lake Margrethe and we are just finishing breakfast and getting ready to head out for another day of mushroom picking. Hopefully we will do as well as we did last week. Nothing to exciting to report from this past week except that I had a call from Art Vogel on tuesday and he said my site said it was suspended....I had Rebecca check into it and it was something at the server....I knew it couldnt be the bill wasnt paid cause that doesnt happen till fall...anyways thanks for cluing me in on that Art. On tuesday I went down to Ferris to move Melissa's stuff out of her dorm room into storage as her first year at colllege is almost over and she will be back home with us next friday, but only for a week till she leaves on her Germany trip. I ended up spending the night down there with her sleeping on the floor in her dorm room.....luckily we had a piece of memory foam which made it pretty comfy for a floor. We have just put 2 memory foam pads on our camper mattresses and I highly recommed that stuff....I also made a new video on the Big Rapids trip which is right here. Coney Islands of Northern Michigan Also from my update on friday night off my new ipad I have to say a little about that, we had an office contest at c/21 between the 8 of us that are in there and it was called PEP, (prodoctivity enhancement process) and it was an 8 week online class and it was to help us find new business. I was out knocking on doors all over town and did it more than anyone and made more contacts which left me at the top of the list at the end. Haley was so excited over this whole thing making sure I was out there working towards the end result. She was actually shaking when we went into the office and it was presented to me. We got into the car and she was in disbelief saying I cant believe we have an ipad......so it was pretty fun to see her excitement over this whole ordeal. I say that I didnt win that thing, I earned it because I surely had alot of work into it. Gotta head for the mushroom patch.. Thanks for checking in. Pete ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday nite April 27 2012 7:30pm Coming at you tonight on my new I pad that I got yesterday from our c/21 office contest. I say that I didn't win it, I earned it by knocking on a lot of doors. I just wanted to try an update on this . Will do more off the big computer later. Thanks for checking in. Pete --------------------------------- Monday April 23,2012 10:15 a.m. DARN,DARN,DARN, why cant we get blasted with snow the way the eastern new york and the east is supposed to get. We miss out on all the fun. So in the mean time the weather is cool in frederic, we spent the weekend at McIntyres Landing Campground on Lake Margrethe and we were the only campers there for the 3 nights we were there....nice and peaceful with a beautiful sunrise each morning. Sunday we spent out looking for morels and came up with about 120 of them. Also I want to send a Happy Birthday shout out to my HM buddy Rob Kelly who hits 59 today and is going to go out and celebrate by trying to find some mushrooms himself. Thanks for checking in. Pete --------------------------------------------------------------------- Noon Friday, Just heard the Mackinaw Bridge is closed due to falling ice...... Friday April 20, 2012 10:34 A.M. Exactly one year ago today I was out riding in great snow. Sadly it didnt happen again this year but if only it would have been colder overnight we would have a foot of snow now. Its been raining hard all night and still is now. There are spots north towards the bridge from here that did get some snow last night and some spots in the u.p. So just to make us all wish I am reposting my video that I did last April 20 here. A nice April 20, 2011 sled ride We are taking the camper across the lake today for the weekend to the state campground. I dont figure it will be to hard to get a lakefront spot. We were going to go to piegon river and camp and look for mushrooms but Haley has a soccer game tommorow so that blew that theory. Also please look to the top of this page and go to my link there as I am still way short of my 1000 likes that I want to get to on my century 21 facebook page......Thanks for checking in. Pete --------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday April 18, 2012 3:50 p.m. YEE HAH!! No more Rolling, Rolling, Rolling....A HUGE THANK YOU goes out to Chris Baird for his techno solving abilites and to Rebecca my webmaster for applying them.....The bad part about this is the fact that since the 13th when things really started rolling is that every refresh put another hit on the counter and I am up by a whole years worth of hits, over 250,00 more hits in that short time frame. I was so looking forward for the 2 millionth hit which would have come up next season...oh well just have to regroup from here.....Now I need to get that webcam thing handled. If the camera is working for you , you will see the mountain man has set up his stump in the back and has been back there practicing throwing his tomahawk and his ax....I am looking to find him a bigger stump. I have taken a few throws with the hawk but havent got to stick it in the stump yet. Also in the past few weeks I think the diabeties is taking its toll on the beagle as her sight is failing rapidly. She doesnt see food when I hold it in front of her and I have to move fast to keep my fingers...Her health seems fast but her sight has gone fast. Thanks for checking in and I will repost the trail conditons from the start of this season here shortly so you can look back a year or so to see how it was. April 20 last year was the big storm when I got to go for a ride, if we dont get a storm this friday I will repost my video from last April 20 just to make us all wish......Thanks for checking in. Pete -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday Morning April 14, 2012 I have removed all the past updates to try to get zoomed in on what is making this thing refresh all the time.....in the meantime I will post all reports from here on the Sledheads facebook page. 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