I discovered the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra.  Well, actually I’ve known about them for a few years, but it never has worked to go to one of their  summer concerts, and their concert season is in the summer.  Many of the musicians also play in the regular symphony, but it…

It was a busy Sunday night.  YaYa had youth group, and I was also at church at a Sole Hope shoe cutting party, where lots of women were turning old jeans into new shoes for kids in Uganda.  I wasn’t even sure if I would make it to the beach,…

We brought a kayak and paddleboard.  Our neighbors brought a canoe.  It was perfect paddling weather.  The lake was calm and icy cold, crystal clear.  Looking down through the water of Lake Superior will just never get old for me.  It’s like a entire hidden world down there!  Also, I…

  Because the weather was absolutely perfect when we were camping, we left the rain fly off the tent at night and Dr. Peds and I actually slept out under the stars in our hammocks slung from trees, enclosed by a bug net.  Sleeping in a hammock was downright amazing.…

Perhaps the best part of camping at Temperance River is the proximity of our excellent campsite to the water.  The Lake is right there, and right around the corner, the mouth of Temperance River.  Sometimes Temperance River is crazy dangerous, but it just happened to be that while we were…

Our neighbor half way down the street brought a treasure box when we went camping.  He stuffed the inside with candy, and one evening, after all the kidlets were tucked into bed, he and Dr. Peds worked on drawing an excellent pirate treasure map.  They even burned the edges of…

These silly kidlets took limes to the beach.  There is no way around the fact that they are extremely goofy people.  Dr. Peds got me those large cat eye sunglasses It’s a family joke how I go around wearing cheap and wonderfully LOUD cat eye sunglasses.  These sunglasses are polarized…

I don’t actually know how to play Smores:  The Card Game, but I can tell you that these four people laughed SO loudly while playing it!  I wanted to laugh just listening to them.  It seemed to be the perfect card game for a camping trip.  

We spent the middle part of last week camping at Temperance River State Park.  Way back in January we reserved  the same campsite we used last summer, because it’s pretty much the most perfect campsite ever. You look out of your tent and can see the lake.  You walk across…

The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants had already been swimming at  the beach for several hours with friends while Mr. TOF and I drove YaYa and two other kids to Bible Camp.  We got back and I threw some supper at the people who hadn’t had supper yet, while the…