View from where I sat at the 4th of July parade
15 minute sketch of our old fishing boat from the deck
Summer has never started quite like this.
First off we are a month late getting here (due to the knee surgery saga that all my blog followers have heard about for months.)
Then we got here to the cabin only to discover our well has decided that 50 years was all it was going to give us. And this about 3 days before our company was due to arrive!!! (It was also 97 degrees which is unheard of in the north woods of Wisconsin!)
No water at the cabin is a lot like no power.
You are really "camping" out at that point.
Needless to say the estimate from the well guy was not good news and that he couldn't come until the next week. Oh my.
But, it was an adventure and the new well DID arrive eventually with better water and more pressure. AND the local internet company DID finally arrive (on the same day) and put in the "real" wifi connection which I hav NEVER had up here. Wow. Things are looking up!
AND the company..my son and daughter in law and two grandsons (11 and 12) were spunky and fun and of good humor through the whole thing. AND were delightful guests AND helped us so much with the opening. The weather dropped back to 80 degree days and 50 degree nights (like perfect) and although we had one rainy afternoon the rest of the guest days were perfect...full of games and swimming and fishing and wine.
We now are taking some real deep breaths and looking forward to some "more" normal times here...with time to paint, time to canoe, time for wine on the pier and visits with old friends. The birds have found our feeder again and the smell of the pines is nice.
More relaxed news to come. Right now I am counting the minutes to Thursday (July 12) when my first great granddaughter will be born C-section in CA. Photos to follow.
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