THE MANY FACES OF LOGIE

I STILL THINK HE HAS BAT EARS!!

DRUMMOND MAY 2005

SPRING MAY 2005

This spring I found numerous eggshells all over the shore. I looked in my trusty Sibley bird book and I'm pretty sure they are Cormorant eggs . Cormorants are all over the shoal by the fish house.


Here is a little something about Cormorants:



Often seen flying in a "V" formation. Often roost in large groups in trees near water. Catches fish by swimming with wings held at its side. (I have seen this many times). To dry off they strike an erect pose with wings outstretched facing the sun. Their name refers to the nearly invisible crest on thier heads. Cormorant comes from the Latin word "corvus" meaning "crow" and "L. marinus," meaning "pertaining to the sea" Literally, "SEA CROW"

On the island cormorants are not liked because they eat a lot of fish. The thought is, the cormorants have depleted perch fishing around the island. Cormorants eat other fish too.

DRUMMOND AUGUST 2004

logan on the rocks

a puddin' stone on the beach

the ferry ride over. on the shore are the new condos going up

joan's little tank at big shoal beach

DRUMMOND NOVEMBER 2004

DRUMMOND 2004 A WET NOVEMBER

It was a wet November.
This trip, I stained all the joists, stairway area, Beams, nooks and crannys with a sage color.
A nice contrast to the cedar tongue and groove.

DRUMMOND 2003

DRUMMOND ISLAND 2003


Kingsley's log house

The dogs

The Huron shoreline

DRUMMOND FLOOR + STAIRS

FLOORING PROJECT +STAIRS IMPROVEMENT SUMMER 2005

I put in a laminated floor.
I ripped up the existing stairs (a bitch to rip out, I may add).
New stair treads in, stained cherry to add color.
They need numerous coats of poly.
I thought the stairs turned out great.

WALLEYE DRUMMOND STYLE

JUNE 2005 FISHING TRIP

Love them wallys. Good eating too.
Live well= Nikon hell
FISH ON!! Loving it

DRUMMOND 2001

We were younger.
We are still in love with the beach.

U.P. PHOTOGRAPHY SITE

DRUMMOND ISLAND 2000

While looking around for other things I found this site. Steve Brimm, all U.P. photography. I really like his work. Very impressive. here is the link:

steve brimm

DRUMMOND ISLAND OCTOBER 2005
COLOR TOUR

Some nice colors this year.
the dogs had a great trip

Joan's new partner for the day

GERMAN SHEPHERD PUP FULLER/HALL NOVEMBER 3, 2005


Amigo mio, Joan Penrod, met this good looking girl Thursday at work. She came right up to her early in the morning. No coller, no micro chip.......owner unknown. The pup kept her company for most of the morning until Joan could find her some new humans to live with. She found a growing family with six acres of land north of town. They promised to keep Joan posted on the pups new home.

Which got me to thinking about the web site dogs in cars
http://www.dogsincars.co.uk/default.asp

great site. check it out.

The eagle has landed.

DRUMMOND ISLAND OCTOBER 2005

Eagle on the shoal out in front of the fish house.
Damn I need a bigger zoom.

THE NEW VIEW

This is the new view up on the island. My friends dave and krissy worked their booties off getting the view.

Many thanks to them for their work and their friendship. here is the email dave sent with the pictures. As jerri blank would say, dave is hilarious.


Krissy and I had a great time up at your cabin. I have, with Krissy's
help, modified your landscape. I took down 25+ trees. Attached, you will
find pictures of your new view.

Picture "logancottage" is a view of your cabin from the shore. As you know,
the last time you were up at your place, seeing your place from shore was
not possible. However, give me a friggin chain saw and look what happens.
By the way, your chain saw looked new. Well, its been broken in quite a bit
now. As you can see in the next picture "lumberjackdave" I'm going at it
with quite a bit of vigor :)
Now, if you look at "shipview" you can see the picture that Krissy took from
your front lawn. She did have a telephoto lens on the camera, but the
freighter was plainly visible on the horizon from your front door area.

"view1" is a picture of your new scenic view taken while sitting on the
couch in your living room. As you can see, the shoal is now plainly visible
and shows quite a bit of wave action. "view2" is from the front of your
cabin with a telephoto lens to bring it up alittle closer. You can now see
the big rock in the water off shore from your front yard. And "view3" is a
picture that was taken just before my wife sent me up to Mrs Buley's to get
a bow saw and branch nipper because she was INSISTENT that you have a view
of that damn rock. So she waded down through the brush and nipped and sawed
her way to the offending brush and hacked it down like a jungle guide.

There was a hellacious windstorm on Monday. There was spit and ass flying
all over the place. Trees cracking and falling and on Tuesday, Sandy called
the cabin and said that a tree was down across the road and it was your darn
tree from your property and she needed it cleared so her cabinet man could
get in to finish his work. She was very thankful that we were at the cabin
and even more thankful that I enjoyed cutting stuff up with a chainsaw.
So....we all trouped up to the offending pine tree that had the entire road
blocked. I fired up that Husky chainsaw and went to it. I cut it up and
made the women lug the wood off the road. (I considered that kind of smart)
She also brought back your big red dollie and I put it in the shed for you.
Anyway, I kind of got off track with the dollie part. We loaded up my truck
and brought the wood down and stacked it by your fire pit.

Anyway, I took down alot of trees and Krissy and I lugged up about 2 years
of firewood for you. There is probaby another 5 years of firewood still
down there, but the chainsaw was tired and the blade was getting dull again.
I took your chainsaw to Nates Marina. He sharpened it while we waited. He
cursed your damn chainsaw. Said it was the most complicated chainsaw (He
used other words though) that he had ever seen. Kept saying..OH HUSKY SURE
HAD A BETTER IDEA DOING IT THIS WAY...he was saying it kind of
sarcastically. Had alot of trouble getting the cover off the chainsaw to
get the blade and chain off. I kept him from throwing it to the ground and
stomping it. I told him I would kick his ass if he threw it down and
stomped it.

Charged me a friggin arm and a leg, 50 bucks, cause he had such a hard time
with that cover. Is that more expensive than a new chain? I'm not sure. I
never owned a chainsaw before and he told me that 50 bucks for a sharpening
was a heck of a good deal. The 20 extra dollars he charged me for cleaning
the chainsaw and oiling it seemed excessive so I got him talked down to 15
bucks for that. So, 65 dollars and the thing cuts like a new saw. I'm sure
you will be happy with it.

So, there is still alot of wood down there that needs to be cut to size and
hauled up. I dont want you to let it rot on the ground. I hope your happy
with your new view. Sandy Buley was really impressed. Said you dont have
to come over to her house to see the view anymore because yours is so good.
She said that her husband and she may be hanging out over at your place more
often because your view is better than theirs is now. I told her that if
she wanted to hang out at your cabin, she better bring plenty of booze with
her on each visit so you all can sit and get drunk while you watch the waves
hit Big Shoal.
Anyway...your probably shaking your head and wondering what kind of idiot
would pay 65 dollars to get a chain sharpened. I was just kidding about
that. It only cost 5 bucks.

Let us know what you think.

Dave and Krissy

TOMBOY

a t-shirt i wish I had.

Drummond Island, the beginning

In the summer of 1998 I started building a little house on Drummond Island in the U.P. of MI.

Drummond Island is the 8th largest Island in North America.

I am still working on the house, but most of it is finished. We call the house, "the fish house"

this is a picture of one of my dogs enjoying the shore in 1998.

Advice for building your own cabin.

1) Build your pole barn, garage or outbuilding first. That way you have someplace to store all the equipment and tools before you build the main house.

2) Build it bigger than you think you are going to need. If I had to do mine over, I'd build it bigger. My footprint is only 24x20.

3) nail guns. the only way to go.

4) Building a house is work hard. But you also must take time off to fish, explore, play. The reason you got the house is to relax and enjoy the outdoors, so be sure your not all work and no play.