Monday, April 16, 2007

Home Away From Home

With no hope of a referral anytime soon we have distracted ourselves with the lakehouse once again. We arrived this weekend to some snow but the rest of the weekend was gorgeous and sunny. We worked like crazy outside. Saturday we had HUGE bonfires on the shore. It was such hard work dragging branches on the rocks and the fires were HOT, we were exhausted. I took this picture of the smoldering fire on Sunday morning as we drank our coffee on the shore.

Perry came and chipped all of our brush and logs and cut down some big trees. It's giving us a lot more sun around the house. We're going to use all the chips to lay pathways around the property.
While the trees were getting cut, I cleaned out the gutters. George is trying to figure out how we are going to unclog those downspouts!

The Adirondacks George built look great, we tucked them in the woods to watch the sunset.
The sewer light went on! Excitement early Sat. morning was to watch them drain it!
Everyone that we've had come to do things for us is related one way or another, all sharing the same last name. The sewer guy comes out and says it looks like my uncle has been out clearing brush. When a cord of wood has been delivered he tells us his father-in-law can do the chipping for us. The chipping guy says he can take our cedar trees to his brother to get milled so George can build furniture with it. We find all of this completely charming. The island is a wonderful community and we're getting to know some pretty neat people. It will be a whole month until we can return. We really hope spring arrives while we are gone.

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