Evelyn Wissmiller

Grandma Doc (Evelyn Wissmiller) passed away at 2:45pm Saturday, October 9. The services were held in Rantoul, Illinois at Lux Funeral Home on Tuesday, October 12. It was overwhelming the people that made a sacrifice to attend. Our church was well represented, along with family, friends from the Rantoul community, Ag Spectrum friends, and even old high school friends of Mom and Dad's. She was laid to rest at the cemetery in Rantoul next to Grandpa Doc's remains. After the services, we ate lunch at the Linden where she used to play Bridge with her friends.

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Sat. Aug.8

Bridget made BB Pancakes on our last morning. Paul dug the trench for the electric line to the garage. I started rewiring the plugs in the cabin. At noon we went out on one last cruise on the float boat before putting it away. It went on the trailer very smoothly. We all went to Dick & Becky’s for dinner, What a send off with steak and wild rice. Who can forget the cookies and ice-cream? I am sitting here in the Cabin listing to the rain and I should be going to bed. I think the Lord for my family and the time I am blessed with that I get to spend with them. I think the Lord for the opportunity to share time with friends past and present, recall memories of those I spent time with in the past and new times with old and new friends. See you all next year.
Alan

Fri. Aug. 7

The morning started with finishing up of projects started, windows, trim and cleaning up around the cabin and garage. We ate an early lunch and went for a 34 mile boat ride. We started at Canoe Narrows and worked our way to Piskegomang Creek. We hope to take canoes up the creek next year. We ended up at the Paxton Islands, Viking Reef and we tried to find the Mines. This trip helped Paul and Hannah finished up their scavenger hunt. They have been looking for clues that Nana & Auntie Ann left them (Hannah more than Paul). Paul once again water skied and Bridget made 2 Pumpkin pies for a pie party. We had the Groves and the Camerons. Hannah found her treasure hunt surprise, but Paul is trying to finish up his at the last minute, like normal. We will see if he makes it. We finished the evening with a game of Mexican Train Dominoes.

Thurs. Aug 6

Today we went fishing on Bunyan lake, half the fun was getting there. We had to rent a four wheeler to start with and load it in the truck and drive 45 miles one way, 20 miles of it were on logging roads, plus 2-3 miles of it were narrow trails pulling the boat. We crossed beaver dams and forged small streams. To launch the boat, we had to go down a steep and rock filled slope. When we got on the lake we motored around the corner to Don’s hole. I shut the motor off, dropped in my 3 day old minnow and had a bite before it hit bottom! We had 5 fish before 9:30 am. This is pretty good since we got there by 9am. The rest of the morning was fish after fish. We could have been back on the trailer heading home by 9:45 had we wanted to. We started being very selective for our last 3 fish. We had 3 or 4 fish that were in the slot size that we defiantly threw back. By noon we had caught our limit and a few nice northern, so we called it a day. When we got home we decided to have a fish fry on Aunt Irene’s rock in front of her cabin (now Ron and Dee’s). I am not a fish eater but there is something about fresh Walleye on the rock that seems to be really good. It also brings back memories of when I was really young and going out with our grandparents and parents fishing and having a shore lunch. Paul ends the day water skiing about 7 miles. He has become pretty good on one ski.

Wed. Aug 5

Paul, Hannah, Roger & I went out to do some fishing with storms clouds in the West. Hannah caught her first walleye. She named it Wallace the Walleye. Big mistake! Wallace went into the live well to determine his fate. Wallace spent 24 hours in the 12” X 28” live well {he did have fresh oxygen pumped in}. To make a long story short, we went fishing on Thus. and Roger cleaned fish that we caught. Wallace was next on the chopping block. Roger grabbed him to do the deed and he flipped around on the dock and into the water. Free Wallace (free Willie) must have been stunned because he hung around awhile in the water. Hannah was torn. She loves to eat walleye but not Wallace. While we were out fishing Bridget picked 2 quarts of blueberry with a mother deer and her twins. Dianne stained all the trim for the windows that I put in over the last week. We all had to race to the cabin because of big rain storm that came in. It was over in about an hour. Camerons came over for grilled Balsamic chicken, roasted potatoes, and fresh broccoli.

Tue. Aug 4

Bridget laid around the cabin while I finished trimming the windows and Dianne started staining the trim. I think Hannah played with Brittany the neighbor girl who lives in Chicago. She came with her Dad and brother to stay with their Grandma for a week. Around noon we decided to make sure that Jason and crew would return again next year. We also want to put Bob’s worries to rest. We loaded the 1977, 70 HP Mercury on to the float boat (Float boat rocks again) to take it to Deer trail. Then we put it into Roger’s truck. Bob and Roger then took it to the Bay for an estimate. Bob worked a deal to have it tuned up, so as to have free storage for a year. Good luck to Jason getting down to the boat next year. Better put the top engineer on it!