warm saturday at the lake
Love, Val
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cabin
may!
It was beautiful at the lake, hot even. This guy finally received his birthday gifts and everyone was enthusiastic about opening them. Trying to make things work, so cute. They got in the water!! They only swam a little bit in the shallow water. It’s cold! There’s Elin on the dock. She’s gained strength back
first weekend at the lake
The swamp is getting noisy! So many toads and frogs singing away– Love, Val
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up at the lake, 15 below
He went up there for a Lake meeting and stayed at the cabin overnight. The cabin is winterized, but he could turn the heat on. Except we have some kind of off-peak system so the heat kept spontaneously cutting out. It was a long, cold night, sleeping in all his snow gear and boots in
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the last of the season
We’re closing up the cabin this weekend, calling it good for the year. There’s some ambivalence, but also we’re glad we were able to have a season up here at all, looked pretty dicey back in April with covid. Elin was afraid of these noisy geese. We had Chinese for supper, sesame chicken, and cream
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fetching the trail cam
We took her along. She had her nose right in the snow, breathing and puffing, smelling who knows what? One looked liked rabbit footprints and she was fascinated. There he is, grabbing the trail cam. It was a gift from Kirsten, and he has struggled with it badly. It’s been a love-hate relationship for the
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keeping on going
It was warm this weekend, so I put the Thompson’s water seal on the deck. This is not any new deck. We put it on the cabin in 2011 after my parents removed it from their house in a remodel, and gave it to us. It was probably ten years old then. My dad swears
the last of the pictures
The docks were hauled out. They’re playing some kind of funny video game. They pick flowers and stuff. That sad face over on the right is because it is the end of the weekend and after lunch, it’s time to go home. She so did not want this weekend to ever end. I told them
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