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 […]
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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
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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
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I guess that it is officially summer at our place. You could argue that it’s still late spring since the Summer Solstice is still a week away. Or you could argue that summer started really early since we had such an early spring. However, for us summer begins when our guests come back. We work
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This is it! The day so many have been looking forward to – Minnesota walleye fishing Opener! While our preparations for today are different from most of you (we won’t have time to put new line on our fishing poles until sometime in June!) we are just as excited for tomorrow. Walleye Opener means that our
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