Ocean or Lake? I’ll take ocean every time
Camping or Hotel? Hotel please
Fishing? Not a huge fan
Canoeing? Eh
With that information in mind, you would never think that I would enjoy a long weekend at a small cottage on a lake with minimal amenities. But you, silly naive reader, would be so very wrong.
We just spent four days at “The Cottage” up in the Connecticut River Valley. The house has been in my wife’s family for the past five decades and she spent a good portion of her childhood summers there. We make it a point to make it up there at least once each summer. Admittedly, we are not an “outdoorsy family”. However, we do appreciate all that Mother Nature has provided and thoroughly enjoy not having a TV, not having video games, not having Internet access (OK I lied) and making our own fun.
We may not be avid fisherman and I may not to be able to tell you the difference between a small mouth or large mouth bass, but we had fun feeding the Sunnies and trying to catch them with a net.
Four straight days spent mostly outside in picture perfect 80 degree weather does the body and mind good.
I enjoy watching the kids explore, getting excited finding quartz in the lake or almost catching a minnow in their buckets.
I enjoy watching my wife relive her childhood, reading through old books that have been left behind or looking at the wall of measurements that has countless lines marking all of the children as they have grown throughout the years (quick note – I am still the tallest of all and damn proud).
Looks like a great vacation place for the weekend!
Looks like a fun place to waste away the summer! How are you not a nature-y person? Have you not seen your garden?
That looks like a nice break. Now, go and do your bloody gardening!
Looks like a nice relaxing time. Good way to celebrate your birthday weekend!
Looks lovely there. Man I would looooooooove a lake house!
I too would love a lake house. We just got back from Panama City Beach, Florida (oil free!) and I lean towards a lake vacation myself.
NICE!! I love the cottage, too! And the lake and the canoe and the wild flowers and the fish…! I think I might have to go every weekend if this beautiful property were in my family!
Gorgeous! We go to my husband’s family camp in Maine every summer for a week. It’s on a lake in the woods and I look forward to it more and more every year. I ‘used’ to be an ocean person but have been much more drawn to the tranquility and serenity of lakes in the past several years. We love the fishing, swimming, boating, etc. and the old camp is without modern amenities, and it does a lot of good for our souls, too. So nice to see some of your summer fun. Those ‘neglected’ flowers are doing better than most ‘overly tended’ ones!
What a beautiful place to be able to visit each year. The ‘cottage’ looks more like a house. I think it is wonderful that your children will have such great memories of their summer vacations spent there.
I’m not real outdoorsy either, but I do love canoeing 🙂 You guys look like you had a really good time!
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