We had a nice 2+ weeks at Helen’s NH lake house, meeting up with Z&T. Here they are planning their lake entry strategy:
Which they then execute in style:
Helen provided lessons in mushrooming:
They found lots of them:
Not sure this was a mushroom, but it was cool:
Some mushrooms came with frogs:
We also found a not-frog, probably terrestrial:
There was a 65’ dead birch tree teetering towards the neighbor’s cabin, so Zack got all excited for a chance at hopefully controlled destruction (for the tree, not the cabin). That’s him wrapping a control rope 20+’ feet up the tree:
We were all relieved when it fell in the right direction:
For the trip back to MN, they had a really full car, but an empty trailer, so Zach loaded it down with a rubber ducky:
I imagine it brought lots of smiles to fellow Interstate travelers:
We also had good visits with Aya and friend Max. Aya’s look of horror is at the amount of butter Helen loaded onto the toast (she is scared of butter):
We had good weather and swam every day:
I did a mini solo biathlon, swimming around the lake perimeter (2.5 miles, 2 hours), then running up and down nearby Mt Lovewell (5 miles, 1.2 hours) … got a bit sweaty:
I lost my camera. Figuring it might have slipped into a couch cushion crack, I started digging and found many years of accumulation:
I didn’t find the camera there, but playing Sherlock Holms, I calculated one other place it might have fallen, under a kitchen cabinet. Not only was my camera there, but hidden behind a few dust bunnies I found another camera I had lost 4 years ago!
We attended friend Sophia’s wedding at a lake on the Canadian border:
Helen got some help with rarely applied makeup:
Sophia and Lil were a very happy couple:
The border fence had no warning going into Canada, but once there, you could not come back:
Aya in the foreground and Helen is somewhere far in the background, swimming into Canada:
Helen has decided to sell the lake house, so we posted a for sell by owner sign while we were there:
That prompted a couple of options that Helen is considering.
Although the lake swimming is very scenic and unrestricted, the first minute can be a bit chilly at 72 degrees and I’ve come to appreciate the 86 degrees we keep our pool at. At a recent pool party, we introduced some doggies to swimming:
But they preferred boating:
Bruce
