As I approach my middle age and experience the maturing of my body I think I recognize the source of Mother Nature’s erratic weather patterns: she’s is menopausal! Rain? In January? Did she forget where we live? This isn’t the rainy season. It’s supposed to be the SNOWY season! Mother Nature needs hormone therapy, STAT!!! […]
Winter is a Wonder at Wildwood Resort Read More »
The weather has turned very winterish all of the sudden! Nighttime temps are dipping into the single digits and as crazy as it sounds we are happy about it. The other night I was running some things between cabins after dark. It was one of those winter nights when everything was still and since there was no moon the
Baby It’s Cold Outside! Read More »
This is one of my favorite times of our year. It’s not like “Top 5” favorite times of the year but it’s close…Top 10 for sure. It follows on the heels of my “Number 1 Least Favorite Time of the Year” which is fall. Love the weather, the colors and the guests. Just don’t love
Bring on the Hard Water! Read More »
We awoke Thursday morning to a layer of snow covering the grass. It wasn’t frost, either. It was honest-to-goodness “but-it’s-only-October” snowfall! At first I wasn’t too happy. But as I headed into town to work that morning I changed my tune. While driving down our road I found myself scanning the ditch where the snowmobile trail
No matter how hard it is to believe we’ve actually made the plunge into fall. It seems like just yesterday we were in our summer rhythm! Now we’re trying to find a new routine with cabins turning over almost every day. The girls are back in school but it’s still a struggle some days to remember to go
Minnesota Fall Colors – Change is in the Air Read More »
We had an interesting week at Wildwood July 4th week. On Monday night, July 2nd, we rode out a severe storm that rolled through northern Minnesota. We had finished potluck when we saw on radar that the storm was approaching. At that point it was west of Bemidji and, although it looked somewhat severe, we had no indication
Blessings in Spades Read More »