After supper, all the corn cob waste was loaded into this little red wagon.  While everyone was busy cleaning up, Squirmy toddled right over there to investigate and have a little dessert.  The cobs were wonderfully slimy with used butter, salt and pepper, and had such a magnificent texture.  Plus,…

It’s the most comfortable place to be at the cabin, that wonderful hammock on the front grass:  terrific with a buddy and so relaxing by yourself. I loved watching Auntie Dot’s baby cat, Mercertio jump up and tousle with the ropes.

The Banana enjoys a nice jetski ride, and sometimes she even gets to do a little steering as they zip around the lake.  You might recall that The Banana loves to be with people.  She can hardly stand being alone and playing by herself.  No matter what she is doing,…

Of course there were smores!  There were traditional smores with graham crackers and a new smore experiment involving keebler fudge striped cookies, which got rave reviews.  There were nicely toasted marshmallows, and marshmallows burned to smitherines.  There was a minor, but a bit traumatic burn on one child’s hand, lots…

Everyone has crazy hair after a fast and furious jetski ride, but we couldn’t help but to giggle at Mr. SP’s remarkable do.  The wind whipped that crazy mop into a most perfectly feathered version of a ridiculous 80’s hairdo.

“You put it on like a dress, and then you hold onto the boat rope and you swallow a lot of water,”  one of my nieces explained, when the summo skirt was first inflated.  There were a couple of times that the summo skirt was actually used in the water,…

They had so much fun going for a midmorning wagon ride with Grandma Kathy down the road at the lake.  Wagons are extra fun when they have two seats and you can ride with a buddy almost your same size.

In the fourteen years or so that Dr. Peds and I have been going to the cabin, we haven’t really encountered leeches in the lake before.  Usually all the fish right around the dock eat them up and the kidlets can swim worry-free.  This year, however, each of the big…

Auntie Dot had pity on this boy and decided that he needed some time in the water like the big kids.

It seems like every year at the cabin my nieces manage to catch a frog or two, and this year the specimen was large.  Very large.  In fact, I believe when he was first snatched out of his cozy home in the weeds by the back cabin, he was in…