July 1, 2011 -- At Leech Lake (and St. Cloud)

This morning at 10:00 a.m. the temperature was 76 degrees, it was already humid, the sky was overcast and mostly grey with the wind out of the west at 8-12 mph.

We are going drive down to St. Cloud a little later today for a Coyle family reunion picnic at Kathleen's Mom's house. Not all of Kathleen siblings will be there, but there should be somewhere around 15 people at the picnic just the same.

I have already loaded the grill, charcoal and other grilling equipment into the truck because it seems that I'm the only one at the picnic that grills on a regular basis. I guess I'll be wed to the hot coals this afternoon.

The plan is for us to leave the lake sometime around noon and arrive in St. Cloud by 3:00 p.m. That will give us time to do some last minute shopping, get the grill going, and begin the BBQ picnic by 5:00 p.m. It should be a nice time.

Obviously I will not be fishing today, and may not get out tomorrow evening either if we don't get back to the lake at a decent hour. At any rate, my next post will be on Saturday, July 2.