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Eastport Landing and local summer

September 16, 2009

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I continue to revel in what I’ve decided to call Local Summer: that golden time, right after the company goes home, when we kick off our shoes and relax.  On Tuesday I visited the tiny park at the north end of Torch Lake.  Its official name is most likely the DNR Eastport Torch Lake Access, […]

Walking at Barnes Park and cruising Torch Lake – oh yes, it’s still summer

September 14, 2009

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The weekend was perfect, wasn’t it?  I have lots to tell you about Saturday, but no time to write, so I’ll just show you what I was up to on Sunday.  If these images don’t persuade you that it’s still summer, there’s just no hope for you. I had a nice cruise on Torch Lake in the […]

No sun, no rain, no problem

August 29, 2009

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Friday was supposed to be sunny and breezy, because our little band of neighbors planned to have dinner on the deck at the Dockside. Mama Nature pouted, and we had to settle for clouds. Did we give up? We did not. This business of eating outdoors under glowering skies is getting to be a habit. […]

Planning to have fun, Chapter One: Pickleball and goose poop

August 22, 2009

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It was a drizzly day at the Day Park, and everywhere else in the County as far as I can tell, but the intrepid Torch Lake Township Recreation Plan Committee was undeterred. We would go ahead with the Public Input Session (which we had cleverly named Lemonade in the Park to entice people to come—sort […]

Letter from Katherine: Another wedding on Torch Lake

August 18, 2009

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Katherine writes: On Saturday cousin Liz’s son John Evans and his girlfriend Marlana Verbeck got hitched. You may know John, he works at Barnes Park during the summer and in the winter he is in a PhD program in North Carolina. Marlana is studying to become a science teacher at the high school level. It […]

Dreaming of summer Up North

July 30, 2009

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Ah, summer Up North. Time to doze in a hammock.  Time to read a book . . . Wait, wait! Look at the time! Must walk the dogs, get ready for the day job . . . Ah, summer Up North. Time to sit on the terrace and look at the lake. Time to have a […]

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