This visit to northern Michigan is intended to be a working vacation. Normal opening the cabin for the summer, and then going through items acquired over the last 102 years to see if some things can be pared down. Honestly any of the items that are from the first decades of the cabin’s existence will most likely be retained.
I stayed above ground while Jane went into the crawl space to connect and turn on the water. This is perhaps a little more effort than running a hose through the forest to my uncle’s well, as we did for many years. We’ve had our own well for almost 40 years now. Plus we, my parents, added a hot water heater at that time too. So hot water without boiling it on the stove, or in the stove when the wood stove was still in the cabin. One of the chores this year is getting a new hot water heater.
But once the electricity and water had been turned on, and some other basics handled, the sun on the beach called. Because you never know when the next beach day will be it would be irresponsible to ignore one.
It’s good to be here.
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