Submitted by Lew Pitcher on February 10, 2014 - 20:03
Terry and I just got back from another week-long cruise. This time, we cruised the southern Caribbean, departing from San Juan, Puerto Rico on the Royal Caribbean "Adventure of the Seas". Seven days of sunshine, blue skies, warm breezes, high temperatures and all the pampering that you can only get on a cruise ship.
Submitted by Lew Pitcher on December 6, 2013 - 22:50
Dear Friends,
Much has happened since last we talked, and much I have to tell you. First off, please excuse my absence last year; circumstances interfered and kept me from writing. So, rather than begin in 2013, let me start my letter in the fall of 2012.
Submitted by Lew Pitcher on October 22, 2013 - 10:29
Last week, I closed the cottage for the 2013 season.
Submitted by Lew Pitcher on September 30, 2013 - 05:40
Now that I have the cottage on Kimball Lake, I want to add some of the "comforts of home". I don't want high-tech, power-hungry, electro-gadgets; I simply want some conveniences that can be accomplished in a low-tech, low impact, almost "back woods" manner.
Submitted by Lew Pitcher on August 12, 2013 - 01:07
... your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name
Oh let me be your sledgehammer
This will be my testimony
Submitted by Lew Pitcher on August 2, 2013 - 19:52
The Bad
- Carpenter ants
- Wood rot
- Fourty five years worth of broken and discarded furniture and boating equipment
- Bad weather
Submitted by Lew Pitcher on July 15, 2013 - 21:42
I've had a busy spring and summer, working around the cottage. You can find me there most weekends, fixing something. Mom and Bob tried to keep the cottage going, but in recent years, neither had the money or the energy to do the hard things.
Last summer, I replaced a "deck" that was rotting out; Mom had stepped on a board, and wound up knee-deep in it. Not a good thing for a 79-year-old to have happen. So, I went up with a load of lumber and two bags of ready-mix concrete and replaced the deck with something a bit more stable.
I used the concrete for a footing for the stairs coming down from the deck. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough concrete to properly pour the footing, and the footing that I did pour was akilter enough to make the stairs slope visibly as well. I promised Mom that I'd replace that footing this year, so that the stairs wouldn't be "wonky" any more.
Submitted by Lew Pitcher on July 9, 2013 - 21:15
I am a Man of Constant Sorrows
I've seen Trouble all my Days
Submitted by Lew Pitcher on June 10, 2013 - 21:46
Submitted by Lew Pitcher on June 10, 2013 - 21:40
This past weekend, Terry and I spent an emotionally difficult three days at the cottage. Along with the Ingrams and the Lindsays, we said goodbye to my mother and my brother.
Saturday afternoon, we all gathered together to drink a toast to both Bob and Joan, and then trekked over to my cottage to scatter their ashes. Mom and Bob will now, forever, reside beside the clear blue waters of Kimball Lake, on the land they loved so much. They sit at the cottage and on the beach between the Ingrams and the Lindsays.
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