our get away

    Way back in Feb., I had sent an email to our friends inquiring if it might be possible to again 'borrow' their cottage. This time, for our upcoming 30th anniversary. They had replied 'most likely', but to please ask again closer to the date.
    Back when I asked the first time, I had NO idea that I would still be battling Vertigo!!! Good thing I hadn't known!!!
    Also, back then Brian had been working nights. He had talked about switching shifts, I wasn't sure if he would or not. He did.
    In April I asked them again and they replied yes, but that the extended weekend I had inquired about, was a weekend they were using it themselves. However, we were more than welcome to use it the weekend before.
    The new proposed weekend was also when the yearly spring work day at church had been scheduled for. And Brian, as church janitor, is required to be there. And usually that means he is there from about 7 a.m. till 8 or so in the evening, by the time he re-sits up for church after all of the work day activities.
    The original plan was for an extended weekend - take Thursday night off of work, and leave town Thursday afternoon. Take Sunday and Monday nights off of work and return to town early Tues. afternoon. Then Brian changed shifts, and which weekend it was got changed, and he needed to be at the church workday. "Life" and 'plans' don't always flow together, do they?
    Brian decided that we were still going to go for awhile anyways. He took that Monday off of work and left the church work day much earlier than normal. A big part of his wanting to go, had to do with seeing how I handled traveling. Our grand daughter's birthday party is coming up soon and he wanted to see what all it might take to actually get me there.

    We pulled out of our driveway about 4 in the afternoon that Sat. and headed over to eat an early dinner out. Afterwords I chose 'the back route' up to the cottage. It's still a major road way, but not the highway. I thought I might fare better on it, and you know me, I definitely prefer the scenic routes!! While we were going through one section where we know there are a bunch of Amish farms, we were figuring out which farms were and weren't Amish. The one with the Amish clad family walking down off their front porch, was easy to determine. ;-p So was the one with the massive fifth wheel in the front yard. Brian said that he couldn't imagine an Amish farmer mean enough to make his team of horses try and pull that thing. ;-p!
    Seeings how I had brought along food for breakfast the next morning, I opted out of hitting the grocery store en-route up, but we did stop at the Family Video store. My goodness. Going down rows of shelves, attempting to scan read titles, really did a number on me! Whew!!! Brian escorted a weaving dizzy wife back out to the van!
    En-route to the cottage, between 'the big town' and the cottage, there is a stretch of road referred to as the 'S' curves. A rather tightly / sharply formed 'S'! On one side of the road is a good sized pond, the other side has a couple of houses on it back from the road a bit and a big drive way turn around down near the street, which we've always figured they had put there to aid people whom hadn't slowed down enough for the curves.
    This time as we started into the 'S', we spotted a pontoon boat decked on one side of the pond. We started chuckling. "Where do they pontoon to?!" Then as we got into the middle of the 'S', I noticed that there was a second pontoon boat anchored on the opposite side of the pond. Unbelievable!!! But yet it really was there. We took pictures of it en-route into 'the big town' on Sunday, when we went in to get groceries. See how not that large the pond is? See how there are pontoon boats on either side of it? Comical!!

    There is something which always catches my eyes and makes me smile right after I walk in the side door of the cottage. Right inside the door, straight ahead is the basement stairway, or you turn into the kitchen. Straight ahead in the kitchen, is the sink. And sitting next to the sink is this little container of kitchen spoons, one of which is always smiling at you. Isn't it just the cutest thing?!! One of these days I am going to stumble across one someplace that I can nab for myself!!!!

    We got to watch and enjoyed two of the movies we had rented. While Brian enjoyed looking out the front of the cottage at all of the big waves the wind was creating on the lake, looking at them made me queasy. I did however thourally enjoy the view out the side window in the living room. Sitting on one of the couches watching a movie, I occasionally looked out the window at the wind blowing the tree branches, and the bright green grass in the sunshine and even though they don't show up good in my pictures (I took one while sitting on the couch, and then the same view, but took the picture out side) there were lots of pretty dandelions (I thought of you Reva :-) )

    While we didn't get to go away for as long as I had originally hoped to, nor stay as long once we actually went as we were going to (due to Rascal's then impending death) we never the less did enjoy our time away together. :->