It is 2009 as I sit down with my granddaughter to write what our Lake Front cabin means
to our family. Sixty-five years ago my experiences on the lake first began
when my parents rented a cottage several weeks each summer for our vacation.
My dad fished, I went horseback riding with friends, swan, hiked, kept busy
all day. Both my mother and father and I had the same friends that kept
drawing us back each year, too. My family loved it so much that in 1956 they
bought property on the lake and built our cottage that still draws my whole
family even today. My two daughters and son have come here since they were
babies and have grown to love it from those childhood days.
Now my married daughters and son are coming here with my ten grandchildren.
(My son bought his own place.) The children begin their days fishing off the
dock, swinging in the hammock, riding on the zip line... Next there is
horseback riding, boating, waterskiing, tubing and hours of swimming... They
are happy here and the ten cousins "love" it when they can be together at
"camp". (They spend hours scheming of ways to get back here together.)
Very few places afford this simplistic life style where the quality of
shared time, so valuable to relationships, can be experienced differently
than almost any place else. How blessed we are to have a Lake front cabin where there
is always refuge and a place to find release from cares and responsibilities
when they pile up. When this place gets in your blood, it becomes a second
home!
Carole S.

Hathaway Hideaway

My lakefront property is about 2 hours from my “main stream” life of work and/or school. Having done this for many years, leaving the lakefront cabin is down to a science. I will be back next weekend, so packing up is easier then at the end of the season. The idea of having a cabin to come to on your lakefront property is to make packing easier and your stay more enjoyable. If you pack to go camping with your tow-behind camper, you have to tow your camper, pay to park it, spent some time setting it up. Usually you do not have access to running water, which makes dishwashing and cooking as well as cleaning a challenge. I found that you actually work more on a camping trip then you have leisure time. Going to your lakefront cabin requires that you tow and bring nothing or very little. Your needed items are waiting for you! You have all facilities! Bathroom/shower, kitchen, coffee maker, running water, and little to no set-up. Just leisure time! The cost of owning your lakefront property may not be more expensive the 10 years of family vacations with a camper in tow. In the end, lakefront property will pay you to for enjoying it at lakefront appreciates must faster then other types of property. More on this later.

Woke up this AM @ 6:30am and took a walk agound my lake front property. The Sun was just rising and the temp. was a cool 70 degrees. My hydrangeas have white blooms contrast the pink phlox. I saw a turtle swim pass the floating dock. Mallard ducks were wading near the grass. I was deciding what I wanted to do with my time today, should I go for an ealy morning swim, or fish, or perhaps take a boat or kayak out for a tour of the lake area near the cove. Early morning is time that I have to myself. By 10am, my kids will be up swimming or asking to go tubing.
Sometimes I like to take a walk around the lakefront area and view the flowers and wildlife. I have seen woodpeckers twice the size of a crow. Auspree are quite commom. They like my floating dock. I usually have my coffee in hand, and take in the fresh air.
The air around lakefront has a identifiable fresh aroma, sort of the like the ocean breeze.