Full recovery; time for vacation

By Michael Fraase

Monday, 18 August 2008 10:36AM CST

Section: Announcements

w00tWe have a full recovery thanks to the wonderful Expression Engine support folks. It was a simple incorrect entry in a single record in a single database table. It’s fixed now and everything appears to be working as expected. Please let me know if you experience any problems.

Just in time for vacation. Karen and I leave tomorrow morning for Lake Vermilion, one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. I spent every summer growing up on a lake in northwestern Minnesota, so this trip will surely trigger a lot of memories.

I wonder what it will be like on a lake that is totally foreign to me. I knew every bit of Lake Sallie‘s 1,246 acres intimately and could navigate it with my eyes closed. I knew where the rocks were and the weeds where the big walleyes hid. I could take our 14-foot runabout through the channel and into Lake Melissa (1,831 acres) by pegging the outboard high enough to clear the rocks, steering by pushing the big motor from side to side instead of using the steering wheel. Wally, the owner of the bait shop used to laugh at my struggles, but I made it every time I tried.

Once across Lake Melissa, and through another channel, I was into the Pelican River and could make it to any other lake in the watershed. Most ventures ended at Detroit Lake, the largest lake in the chain, about 3,067 acres. Mostly though I was content to stay on Lake Sallie—and not just because it was hard work to navigate the channel between Sallie and Melissa. It was a small, peaceful lake, with mostly fishing boats. I could ski wherever I liked, and even on holiday weekends, Lake Sallie never had many boats on it.

Lake Vermilion, by comparison, is a whopping 40,000 acres with 1,200 miles of shoreline, and 365 islands. The plan is to rent a boat and get to know one small piece of the lake really well.

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