Summer Traditions - Part 2

In a house built about 50 years ago as a fishing cabin...

...things have been left here "as is" for years, so that it's like a step back in time 

when we walk in. 

It's been furnished with "finds" and cast offs. 

Not just everyone has a school bus seat as a bench in the bedroom.  

There is only a tiny TV that gets one channel...some of the time. 

But we aren't completely abandoning the "new." People come prepared 

with iPads, Kindles, computers and smart phones. 

 But the best part of time here with family is the lazy part.

 Eating our meals on the porch, games of Boggle and reading.

 Sitting on the pier when the sun starts to go down and everything cools off.

There's plenty of time for baby smooches,

and floating,

and teaching Baby Sister the ways of the lake,

and making fun things to eat like S'mores, shaved ice,
and homemade ice cream (that never got hard),

and flagging down the ice cream pontoon to buy a treat,

and watching the 4th of July fireworks show across the lake. 

It seems like we were there forever but it was just a long weekend. It was long enough to add a few more pages in the memory book. Good memories. The really good kind.