Mio and area Doings

Jake from State Farm wrote:Auction in Mio this weekend.

They must be moving to a better home in Mio and dont want to haul everything with them.

LooseGoose wrote:

Jake from State Farm wrote:Auction in Mio this weekend.

They must be moving to a better home in Mio and dont want to haul everything with them.

They have auctions there nearly every weekend. A fine way to kill a saturday morning in the winter since it's all indoors.

Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 27 and 28, Hartwick Pines State Park in Grayling, Michigan, will host the annual Black Iron Days Festival at the park’s logging museum. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, blacksmiths will pound and shape metal into a range of practical and decorative items.

Visitors can watch glowing iron bend like clay and hear the ring of hammer meeting steel. The sights, sounds and scents of a 1912 steam-powered sawmill cutting pine logs into boards will add to the activity at the site. Other craft demonstrations will include period music, woodworking, weaving and wool spinnin

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

Mio, Mi - The Computer Users Club of Greater Mio will be holding their annual event "Getting Logged On - What You Need To Know to Access The Interweb" this Friday at 3:45 am at the Mio Community Center. The event is open to the public and there is free parking at Clyde's Pancake Emporium adjacent to the community center. Topics covered will include a symposium on "What Is a Computer", turning on a computer, an introduction to the keyboard, and more. Advanced users will have an opportunity to set up an AOL email account.

If you need a ride, you can call Billy Joe Hogsknuckle at 555.3685 to reserve one of the 5 seats available in his handicap conversion van. Be advised that he will have his grandmother with him, as she is teaching the symposium, so that leaves only 2 available seats.

No previous computer knowledge is necessary and soft, easily digested snacks will be available.

tTito wrote:http://www.oscodacountymi.com/prosecuting-attorney/

tTito wrote:Yeah, she's hot. Very cool too.

Turtleneck wrote:Loose, do you snowmobile?

LooseGoose wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:Loose, do you snowmobile?

Occasionally, not even close to what I used to when my sons were living at home. I still have an old Polaris 500 I putz around on a bit.

Turtleneck wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

Occasionally, not even close to what I used to when my sons were living at home. I still have an old Polaris 500 I putz around on a bit.

Cool. I assume lots of cool trails in the area by the Au Sable.

We are expecting the Mio updates to continue through the winter.

LooseGoose wrote:Summer's over - the Dining deals are back.

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Lost Creek Sky Ranch
We will be bringing back steak night beginning September 7, 2016!! Come join us for a delicious New York Strip Steak-10oz $7.99-12oz $8.99, with $1.25 ala crate sides and $1.50 16oz Budweiser draft! All you can eat salad bar $3.50!
Customers do not have to have to order the steak to order all you can eat salad bar.

It’s time to sign up for the Anglers of the Au Sable’s River Cleanup, Saturday, Sept 10.  We clean both the upper and lower rivers.  Please email Josh@GatesLodge.com or call 989 348 8462 to sign up!  
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Cleanup Clam Bake, September 9, 6 pm: All you can eat clams, bbq chicken, and smoked sausage, with all the fixins and the sides. Gonna be a fun party. We’ll have the lemonade, but BYOB. Grab your friends and family and come on down. Guaranteed to get you in the mood for cleanup. Limited spots available. $22/adult, kids pay their age ($5-$18). You must preregister for this event.


This was going to be a typical post about river cleanup, but then the hot humid rain happened today, and tomorrow is supposed to be sunny, and so I’ve got flying ants on my brain.

According to Oscoda County court documents, 45-year-old Bradley Pelton was driving in Mio on December 12 near one of the homes he rents out, when he saw one of his tenants walking and offered him a ride to McDonald's.

The documents say the tenant got into the vehicle and instead of going to McDonald's, Pelton drove his tenant to the Mentor Township Cemetery.

The documents say that Pelton asked the tenant to pray near one of the graves, then pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the tenant while yelling 'where is my money.' The documents state that Pelton made the tenant get on his knees then pointed at the grave stones, telling the tenant 'that was what death looked like.'

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote: oh my god

LooseGoose wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote: oh my god

It's not all wine and roses up here. Close, but not 100%.

CURRAN — The annual Black Bear Festival brought people from all over Michigan to enjoy a classic car show, parade, arts and crafts show and cake walk on Saturday, Sept. 24.

Triple Sparty wrote:Loose, I drove through the small town with a big heart last weekend. Thought of you.

COMINS — Pumpkin Fest will offer family fun and affordable pumpkins at the Skyline Event Center for the fourth year in a row Oct. 1.

“We’ll have the wagon rides out to the pumpkin patch, the fresh-pressed cider, doughnuts, cocoa, pumpkins are still $2 and we’re going to do pumpkin chunkin’,” said Sherri Sanderson, one of the Pumpkin Fest organizers.

Sanderson said pumpkin chunkin’ involves kids picking out pumpkins for one of the festival workers to put into a large sling shot. Once the pumpkins are in the sling, the kids pull back the rope and send the pumpkins flying. The object of the game is for the pumpkins to hit a large target in the field.

Sanderson also said organizers expect to have more crafting tables this year with about a half-dozen vendors total. Most importantly, they’re hoping that the weather will hold out.

“A lot of it depends on the weather,” she said. “Obviously people don’t want to come out and sit in the 50 degree rain.”

His Love Family Resource Center will also be holding its 5K run/walk in conjunction with the festival to raise money for the parenting resource center.

On a slow streamer day, it might just be a brown trout, and not a muskie, that is the fish of 10,000 casts. On Monday, I would bet that our boat threw somewhere around 7,500 of them, not including false casts. My hands were frozen into little claws and my elbow throbbed to the point that I was considering cortisone or at least single malt. We started early and stayed late. Sure some trout were caught. Never the big trout, but George found a nice one to end the day (he did all the fish catching, in fact) and after nearly ten hours of flailing, it was a high-five moment.



What makes a streamer angler do this? I think the streamer angler is either converted immediately or not at all, usually by the unexpected sight of a huge trout coming from nowhere and now hot pursuit. Such memories are what built the hopefulness (I almost wrote confidence) that the really cool thing that happened once might in fact happen again. And it does. Sometimes. Sometimes on the first cast of the day. Sometimes on the last. And so from this conviction a breed of anglers has emerged as “streamer anglers” who love nothing more than to dress head-to-toe for the elements and sling, and sling, and sling. I’m not sure I’m one of them, but for half the year I’ll happily play the part. And this is the start of that half of the year, and I’m excited.

Martin Spartan wrote:Goose, we are at Hartwick Pines, wife said she saw something about a giant pumpkin catapult near by, do you have any deets?

Martin Spartan wrote:Goose, we are at Hartwick Pines, wife said she saw something about a giant pumpkin catapult near by, do you have any deets?

tGreenWay wrote:

Martin Spartan wrote:Goose, we are at Hartwick Pines, wife said she saw something about a giant pumpkin catapult near by, do you have any deets?

Can't beat a good punkin chunkin with a trebuchet.

Martin Spartan wrote:Goose, we are at Hartwick Pines, wife said she saw something about a giant pumpkin catapult near by, do you have any deets?