Well, another birthday has come and gone - but, since we tend to celebrate birth-months, I still have a few more days left to be pampered.
We are about to head into the garden to see if we can't get the major weeds under control. The gardens are lush and all the blossoming trees and shrubs have and continue to put on a banner performance this year.
Everything has grown exponentially... except for the prize apple tree that the tumbling 90 foot high spruce took out in a storm this past winter and the 2 other apple trees the rabbits killed by eating the bark.
We opened the cabin for our 20th season last weekend and nearly got carried off with the black flies. The docks were much harder to deal with than usual - either because of the age of the docks or the age of ourselves. In this vein, several years ago we went to arrange for friends to stay at the German woman's B&B on the far point across the lake from our cabin. She did not seem to remember us and asked where our cottage was. We told her and she replied: "Oh yes, that was the one the two young boys used to own."
Sheesh....