Still Here

We are way overdue to update this blog.  If we have any regular readers left, you may think we’ve disappeared somewhere.   

Our oldest granddaughter, Valentina, and her dog spent the week of the 4^th with us, and David joined us for the 5^th and 6^th.  David and LeJoy (his friend) joined us the weekend before the Fourth to introduce LeJoy to the “cabin” life.  We had a great week with all of them!

Since then, we’ve had a couple of quiet, relaxing days up here at the lake, with the exception of the mosquitoes.  They have been really nasty this year.  Maybe the late spring warm-up and the frequent rains have made them vicious.  We have given up taking walks around the 2-mile circle since they are so thick.

Paige’s mother brought some friends up here for lunch and a little time at the water’s edge, but they have just left as we write this.  Our quiet time ends tomorrow, however, when the 3 remaining granddaughters come for a week.  Their Mom has to attend a seminar in Chicago, and Brett is back on 24 hr shifts at St Paul’s Fire Dept.  He will come up to join us next Tuesday.  We’ll be re-siding the outhouse.  Since completing our last small remodeling project we have just been taking things easy and doing quite a lot of reading.

Future plans have come together, somewhat.  We will go back to the Twin Cities for a couple of days in late August, then come back to the cabin for the Labor Day weekend.  Shortly after that we will be packing up and heading for the Pacific NW, stopping for a 3-week Nomads project at a church camp in Montana for late September/early October.  After that we plan to do a lot of sightseeing and meeting up with friends as the fall winds down.