It's always sad when we have to close up the cottage for the winter (and it's a lot of work!), but that's how we spent this Saturday. The boats and docks are out of the water, the deck furniture is all sorted out and the grill put away, the beds are stripped and covered, and the cabinets are emptied. Just a couple smaller tasks remain: winterizing the boats, turning off the water, and emptying the refrigerator.
It was really windy and chilly at the lake today, but sunny. It's hard to believe how quickly the weather changes: Labor Day weekend was so beautiful that the kids were swimming! The leaves show very little progress since Labor Day, so we're going to go back up in a couple of weeks just for the day to finish the tasks we still need to do and see if we can catch some of that beautiful Autumn color.
In the meantime, though, looking back at this summer: hot and humid come to mind. Like the rest of the country, it was extremely hot and humid up north (especially those first couple of weeks in July). We didn't have a lot of campfires this summer and, due to rain late in the summer up north, we ended up with a lot of mosquitoes in August. Still, we had a good time over the July 4th holiday (including some delicious Booyah), FishORee weekend, and Labor Day weekend, as well as the quieter weekends in between. Got in some boating, and swimming, and exploring, and 4-wheeling, and we're looking forward to doing all of that again next summer!
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