At the Lake in Minnesota

Someone in my wife’s family has been spending the summer here since the 1920’s. I have been visiting “the lake” for a few weeks most summers since the summer of 1984. This year the patriarch of her family died and I thought it might be the last of the Minnesota summers.


But come early summer Grandma changed her mind about not opening the lake cottage for the summer every again and here we are once again deep in mosquito land. The all season people have told us that it was an unusually cold winter, like they used to have years ago. And it has been a wet, cool spring. The ice was late leaving the lake this year. The water is still so cold that done of us have wanted to swim. It has been strictly a fishing visit this time.

Our families have decided that it is still fun to come to the lake, and have promised to make some time each summer to meet here again. Times have changed and in today’s fast paced tech society the cottage will no longer be a summer long home for anyone but memories are still to be made as new generations learn to swim and water ski and seine minnows and catch big sunnies off the dock.