Relative Something

We are enjoying our annual Independence Day celebrations at the lake place. Cyndie’s brother brought up a new toy for the kids to try out on the hill from the cabin down to the lake: Turbo Chute. It works pretty well, but the kids end up kind of speechless at the bottom, not sure what they’ve just experienced. I figure they are liking it, because they climb the stairs repeatedly to try it again, and again.

A proclamation was read anointing Steve as “King Neptune” for a day, in honor of his incredible contributions toward the unending aqua fun available to the kids here.

It’s been a nice couple of days, taking a break from projects at Wintervale, but we will head home today in hopes of resuming work on our wood shed and the labyrinth, among other tasks waiting for attention at home.

This has been the longest that we have been away from the cats, so we are eager to see if they accept being left alone or not. It is nice to be able to get away and up to the refreshing coolness of the lake. We envision being able to have our kids take care of animals at Wintervale for future weekends that don’t involve the whole family being up here together at the same time, so we can enjoy some lake time. It is only two hours away from us, so we want to take advantage of it as often as we can.