Summer at the lake

I am not a good hot weather person. I grew up leaving the city and going to the lake for the summer. It is never too hot at the lake, you just jump in for a bit and cool off. My grandmother purchased lake property 40 years ago this summer. It is my Mecca. The shore by the lake in front of the house is where I go in my mind when someone says "Go to your happy place." I love St. Germain. I am here now.

My siblings and I (I am the middle of three girls and then a younger brother) had the pleasure of growing up on and in the water in a quiet spot in northern Wisconsin every summer. Our parents were both school teachers and we got to spend the whole summer here. We swam, biked, walked, explored, water skied and worked here from little on. I have had the fortunate experience of working for a few great people here. Each summer they ask me back. In high school and college it was a needle work store (where I first worked with yarn!), and then the fabric store and now the sport marine. I get to come to the lake and play and make enough money for the Ts and I to do some fun stuff. T1 was born up here and then there was the horridly sweltering hot summer I was pregnant with T2. After that I told my Mr. the Ts and I would be going up to the lake for summers from then on. It was good and I was no longer hot. I love the lake!

Our trip this year gives me and the Ts a chance to see family and friends that we left in February when we moved to Long Island. This is a round about way of reasoning the delay in my posts. There was the packing, the drive half way across the country, the visits in Milwaukee, the rest of the drive, the settling in and gettin back to work.

I am still knitting and have even finished a few projects. I am currently camera challenged also. I am resolving the issues and will have pictures very soon. Happy late 4th of July! God bless the land that gives me my lake!