After an extremely long winter here in Minnesota, I cannot tell you how happy I am to see the snow almost gone here! It seemed like the winter would never end!  After 5 years here in Minneapolis, this was the longest winter yet! I'm sure you all know that I left Florida kicking and screaming when Ed decided it was time to return to Minnesota!

   We are down to just a few weeks before Ed leaves for Tetu.  Darryl will the the first of the guides to arrive and knowing him, he will arrive ready and willing to work hard! Lindsay will travel with him and she and I will open camp around the second to third week of May. Our first guests arrive early June and I know we will be ready by then.  Ed has some work to do on the new part of the docks to complete before June.  Sak will also arrive early June.

   As many of you will remember, our female yellow lab Caliber had surgery last winter on her left knee and had to have the same surgery on the right knee this last February.  She is still in her healing stage and doing great!  We'll have her ready for swimming and running the island by the time we open, so it's been along winter for her, as well.  Muskie is hanging in there this winter and she will hopefully have another year with us this summer at the resort.  Cooper is having a great winter and loving life!

   It's wonderful having the renovation completed here at our home.  We had a house-full over the Christmas holidays and we loved entertaining our family again. My sister and husband came up from Kansas City, and both our mothers were here to celebrate the holidays with us. We have a small Easter planned and the following week will be time for Ed to leave for Tetu.


   We are so grateful to all of you who have decided to return to Tetu for another Canadian Fishing Trip! We look forward to the upcoming season and are excited to see all of you soon.  The staff is lined up and arranging for their starting dates.  We have a few new guides that will be joining us this season also.  The kitchen staff will all return and we're looking forward to hearing how Sak's trip to Thailand was this winter.

   Early June has plenty of room if anyone is still undecided on dates, so give us a call and we would be happy to give you some pricing!  Ed and I are ready to go back to work and get to Tetu soon-Ed should have power and phones by the second week of May up there and I will be arriving there AFTER the power and water is running! I can't WAIT for that first fresh walleye fillet to hit the fry pan!

   Hope all of you are enjoying some beautiful spring weather and sunny days! Let's hope for a beautiful May so we can get Tetu opened and looking great for our 2011 season!  See you soon~

Kathi