YOLO folks return to Higgins Lake May 2019

We finally saw a weather window that made the trip back to Michigan feasible without running into snowstorms or tornados or such.  We headed east from Colorado and stopped in Kansas to see my sister, Chris.  Here we are playing Rummikub after a yummy dinner she cooked us.

 Our view from the cottage of Higgins Lake on our return in 2019.

 We store liquids/breakables in the bathtub in case the furnace goes out and the place freezes.  Our furnace had gone on the fritz and I was afraid this was going to be a real mess to clean up--think spaghetti or hot sauce exploding when it freezes--but all was well on our return.  The only casualty was a bottle of honey from Rodriques in the Indian Ocean.

 This is our humble summer abode, looking back from the shoreline.

 We need to rearrange some rocks and toss them back onto the shore.  The ice moves them around every year.

 A marquetry moose at Fred's of Roscommon, a nice restaurant that has great pizza.  This 3-D artwork is all made of local woods.

 Mermaid Barbie swam up to our shore this summer.  We figured she must be waiting for Abby to come visit.

 Jason eventually washed and combed her hair before Abby arrived.

 This was our first year of using the aluminum dock Jason's mother had given us years ago.  It had been stored in the garage for years.  Mismatched bolts and rusted on connectors pushed Jason's stress level over the edge and we ended up disassembling every single piece of the dock and stanchions. 

 A run to the hardware store in Roscommon and Jason had all new, matching nuts and bolts to make the job simpler.  We put the dock together again and put it in the water.  It should be much easier to deal with it now.

While we don't like the Michigan winters, we love the summers here at our lakeside cottage at Higgins Lake!  Ours is one of the few true 'cottages' left around the shore here.  So many have been torn down and huge mansions have gone up in their places.  Our cottage is actually a 1940's era log cabin hidden from the elements by vinyl siding.  We have tons of huge, wonderful windows that let us look out on all the activities around us.