We have some family up your way, further up the line though. Beautiful country.
Those boys look right at home in that house and with those fish. The coloring book caught me eye and brought back some memories of one of my daughters. She held a fascination for minnows too as well as coloring in "her" book. I had my shack on the Mississippi too but down here in the Lake City, Lake Pepin, area. Great winter fishing until the nuke plant got fired up in Red Wing, then it all went away in five years.