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.