The woods are starting to show some color: The lake was still as glass. We took a walk to the dam today, and Maria was prettier than ever, curly hair blowing, white teeth, big blue eyes: I took a few pictures of a bunch of my girls: That little one was not a cooperator. We […]
I went for a walk to the dam this morning. Jay ran after to catch up. And then after this we grilled some burgers and cleaned up and came back to the city. It was a great weekend, low-key and beautiful. Onward. love always, Mom, aka Grandma
A movie, cribbage, shrimp. Sidney is having a better week, getting used to being without Maria every single day. Just Saturday night at the cabin, same old thing. I like it that way. love, Val
We headed out across the lake. This cabin is on the island. It’s a cool place, but we’ve never seen anyone there. Plus, it would be such a nusiance to have to ferry everything over every time. But it’s pretty and kind of wild and intriguing. Mostly perch were caught. Cranes? Not sure. One
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Colors are starting to change. A few cold nights, another couple weeks, it’ll look completely different. The air was sharp and the colors of the sky and lake and everything else seemed to be too. love, Val
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This morning we stepped outside and it felt like we were in Punta Cana again, it was so humid and hot. We have air conditioning in the cabin, which doesn’t get used very much. Wisconsin is not usually that hot, but today it was. Here’s most everybody at the sand bar. This one stayed back
Yes, it was, and then we realized we were out of forks and out of paper plates. The wind was brisk. Dannell found some paper plates and forks in their trailer while Jay and I washed some as fast as we could. Small problems, minor inconvenience. We sang and did candles for the little ones,
My Sweetie asked me when the party was? He’d heard we were having a party. It was true. We celebrated all the end of summer birthdays in one big bash on Saturday night. I made a chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting, and we bought fancy ice cream from a local dairy. We had
Oh yeah, that classic old family game. John threw this beer can out, then challenged t.c. to a race to get to it. The child swims fast, especially if there is a contest involved. This challenge inspired some very determined swimming. This is the little cutie who jumped in and tried to swim after her
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