As I picked these with my boys, I felt like I was the Mom in Blueberries for Sal who lost her child, but didn’t know it, because a baby bear was behind her making noise. But no bear, and no skunk this time. (You never do really know what’s lurking around here at the lake.) [...]
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Ingredients 1 cup milk 1/2 cup buttermilk (Or use yogurt, or add a teaspoon of vinegar to a 1/2 cup of milk. Let it sit until it curdles — a few minutes.) 1 cup whole wheat flour 1/2 cup yellow stone-ground cornmeal 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 – [...]
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You know them too. The kind of people that do not make much of an impression on you at first — until they begin to talk. And then, the face you saw a second ago melts away, and then a spirit within them bursts forth to reveal some kind of joy and sweetness. And you [...]
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Here are the instructions on how to make this angel. Fold (# 50 PAGES) front and (#50 PAGES) back — by taking the bottom right hand corner and folding in half with the right hand corner touching the spine. The back pages will be folded with the book open, so folds go towards back. The [...]
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Sailboat ingredients: Styrofoam egg carton Stick Old plastic tablecloth or vinyl shower curtain Duct tape Patience Instructions to make sailboat: Separate the top from the bottom of the egg carton. Use the top for the sailboat, and use the bottom – the eggcups for seats. Cut sail out of vinyl into a right triangle Cut [...]
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The rain finally came. What a sorely needed downpour. We found two leaks in our new lake house. One leak covered the top bunk bed in water. An amazing, friendly handy-man came with the house. He can fix anything. He’ll be out today. From inside the cottage, we could look down on the water, and [...]
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I was sound asleep, in the middle of the night. The door slam brought me to my feet – the next sound was a blood-curdling scream. I put one hand on the light switch to flood the deck, and the other on the doorknob to pull it open. Looking back, I find it funny that [...]
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The very large deck at our lake house connects the house, the garage, and guest house, and sits about two stories off the ground. From that platform, there is another set of steps to take you higher, for a large, expansive view of the lake. The deck is built around a Red Oak, and two [...]
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One of my friends commented on our lake house before we left that it sounds like the “place where there is absolutely nothing, but everything to do at the same time.” That’s pretty close. I ordered 10 tons of sand, at a gravel pit about a mile from the lake. It was actually behind the [...]
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