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woodrow03
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# Posted: 28 Apr 2014 10:59 - Edited by: woodrow03
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Here is our story.
My wife and I moved back up to Minnesota after living in TX for eight years. We moved back soley to be closer to family in hopes to start a family of our own one day. Well as our first year evolved my grandmother passed away and left us a small inheritance. Being in our early 30's we didn't want to squander the money so the search began for a lake lot in northern Minnesota. By May we had agreed on a 1.16 acre lot with a 151 ft of lake shore. The lake is an 800 acre lake with good fishing that is about 3.5 hours from home.
Two days before we closed on the lot Bri revealed to me that we were expecting a lil one.
So over the next 6 months we busted our behinds and backs cleared a building site, put in a culvert, a gravel drive way, bought a 1979 StarCraft camper off of CL for 1000$, (side note it is brand new from orgianl owner who said the last time he set it up was 1983, the year Bri was born) cleaned up the lake shore for a dock and put In a dock. I also put in a gate across the drive.
By fall we hired a guy to build us a 10x14 "shed".
We also made time to do a lil fishing and duck hunting while we were there.
I'll post more in a minute to where we are today.
See pictures.
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After a few weekends of Cat and Chian saw work
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Cleared under brush and put drive way in
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had a 10x14 shed built
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 28 Apr 2014 11:04 - Edited by: woodrow03
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Winter trip check in on the way to Red lake,
Fall crappie
More of the drive
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 28 Apr 2014 12:09
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Some pictures from last weekend.
Cleaned up a view and trail to the lake.
Cut only dead fall trees or blown over trees.
Bri and I want to keep it full and as natural as possible.
We also made some benches
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 28 Apr 2014 12:13
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Made stairs and bought posts to put in this weekend.
Oh and picture of our new addition Grayson.
And a picture of our dream cabin/place we found we want built.
Many years out though
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OwenChristensen
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# Posted: 28 Apr 2014 18:10
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Nice, I love Northern MN. You've got a great place!
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jaransont3
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# Posted: 28 Apr 2014 20:33
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Welcome to the site. Your property and "shed" look great. We have a place on the Iron Range....north of Hibbing. We love it up there, but don't get back nearly often enough. Heck it will be almost 6 months since the last visit when we get back for Memorial Day week. Tough being 800+ miles away. I really envy your 3.5 hour drive to your cabin.
Congrats on the little one too.
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missouriboy
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# Posted: 2 May 2014 16:29
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What a great setting. Congratulations on your lake lot and your new family addition. What fun he is going to have growing up at the lake.
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 28 May 2014 21:21 - Edited by: woodrow03
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Got up last weekend with the wife and lil one.
Got the dock installed.
Made a landing and a set of stairs down to the dock.
Cleaned up a few down fall trees.
Aired out the camper and set up the bunk house.
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OwenChristensen
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# Posted: 29 May 2014 07:32
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Concrats on the new family member. I see you have pelicans, there must be fish. One thing though....your dog needs a softer bed.
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2014 10:40
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Best 50$ purchase off Craig's List I've made in a while. 4 hours of elbow grease its like brand new. Can't wait to take it up North soon
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2014 11:08
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nice score on craigslist for sure!!! they will seat a slew of folks.... .what kind of wood??
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 23 Jun 2014 07:55
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 23 Jun 2014 07:57
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One setof stairs in:
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 23 Jun 2014 07:58
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Second set of stairs framed up
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 23 Jun 2014 07:59
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 23 Jun 2014 08:00
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 23 Jun 2014 08:01
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Inside bunk house
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 23 Jun 2014 08:02
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CaptCanuck
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# Posted: 28 Jul 2014 07:16
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Looks great, have you thought about cutting the poles down on your dock - to 10" or thereabouts?
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 31 Jul 2014 10:30
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 7 Apr 2015 22:21
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Solo trip two weeks ago; finished stairs to the lake. Myself and buddies are no perfectionists on this project but they serve their purpose
Calvin keeping watch as I work:
Enjoyed a great sunrise with the dog:
Heading up on Thursday with the wife to split wood, pull a few stumps out and caulk and stain the bunk house.
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missouriboy
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# Posted: 8 Apr 2015 08:20
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Looking good! I'll bet you are looking forward to the ice being out!
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pizzadude
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# Posted: 8 Apr 2015 15:01
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Hey great pics! I like your place a lot. That stairway looks like quite a project...
Nice to see Upper Red still kicking out nice crappies! I will never forget the winter of '99. Never will I ever see fishing like that again.. 10 of us went up one night(right about the time the crappie school was discovered). We caught over 300 crappies, the smallest being 14" majority were 15", one 17". Three of us in my house had 5 fish on at the same time!
Ahh memories of good old Red Lake..
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 12 Apr 2015 14:48 - Edited by: woodrow03
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Wife and I left our 14 month at home for a night and headed north to get some work done.
Ended up clearing 6 tress for a future building site and saved our stairs from a big pine which was over the top of them.
Split a lot of wood too. Still needs to be stacked.
Wife and I did go out to eat one night and had a nice fire before coming home
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beachman
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# Posted: 12 Apr 2015 15:21
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Wow. Northern MN looks at lot like NB in Canada. We usually lose the ice around mid April to first of May. Calvin looks a lot like our Arlo. Place looks great -so do the refreshments. OK, gotta watch the Masters.
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neb
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# Posted: 12 Apr 2015 18:37
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Really nice! You are a young couple starting a dream early.
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MJW
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# Posted: 12 Apr 2015 19:52
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Very nice.
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 20 Apr 2015 20:27 - Edited by: woodrow03
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Was sitting around playing cards on Saturday night with my parents after putting the lil guy down.
Wife mentioned how she wanted the bunk house insulated and walls put up before we take the lil guy up for his comfort.
I get a wild idea and say I'll go tomorrow and get it done. Mother says I'll join you. 10 am I leave with 63 year old mom. 3.5 hour drive. Calling for a low of 27
3.5 hour drive and 4 hours of work we are done at 715pm
Finished cutting up one big pine which fell 2 weeks prior only to see one more tried to take out the new stairs.
Will cut that one next trip
It was her 2nd time up to the lake. First time to spend the night.
She had a great time and said she wanted to come back to help with "work" again.
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woodrow03
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# Posted: 11 May 2015 21:08
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And..... We have water...
Had to go 101 feet down but its done. 45 feet further than projected....
Got the lot cleaned up, dock in and firewood stacked in one large pile. Very excited for memorial day weekend
This will be Grayson's first trip up with us since he was 3 months old.
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UPLIBERTY
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# Posted: 14 May 2015 14:09
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woodrow03, nice looking piece of land you have there. You guys are living the dream. Thanks for the pics.
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