Fun Times at GVL
So my man and I spent a lovely 3 days at the cabin in GVL. It was weird being up there without other people, but we managed.
We rented a canoe and paddled around on the lake for 70 minutes. They gave us 10 extra for the price of an hour because he’s so darn cute! A word of advice, the lake isn’t big enough for 70 minutes of canoeing. We went back and forth, side to side, up and down, all around,, and still had 40 minutes left. Plus, our old buns went to sleep! What a fun time we had!
We walked to the rock formations to see Arrowhead and watch the sunset, but were too early for the sunset, Still quite a lovely view though. It was eerie to see once shaded woods wide open to the sun, no leaves, blackened tree trunks. Many signs of new growth and renewal were plentiful; offering hope that the once shady grove would again be one day.
I think all of the red ants in the western hemisphere moved to GVL for the summer. They were everywhere!
We each worked on our own projects, I made a cross stitched pillow for the fair and D enjoyed his mancrame. I think he has an excellent chance of teaching arts and crafts to retired men in Montana someday.
We painted 2 sides and 2/3 of another side of the back cabin exterior; redwood stain with green stain trim. Not sure what color the door will be. We didn’t want to go too far without input from you all. If the green isn’t a fav of all, we’ll re-stain it redwood colored. It shouldn’t take more than 4 hours to finish painting the balance of the cabin. We’re hoping to finish Labor Day weekend or before. There are pics in D’s camera and I hope to be able to post them soon.
We went to the Lake Inn for dinner and had what D told the waitress was “possibly the best pizza he’d ever eaten”. It was very good and we had a lovely sunset view of the lake. Very nice people, too.
We made a bird feeder and filled it with seed, grapes and cherries and a squirrel feeder filled with peanuts (which the blue jays found easier to feed from than the squirrels). It was fun to sit in the cabin and watch a squirrel try to pull up the plastic cup feeder and dump it over. He finally gave up. Then the blue jays took their turn and proved much more adept at snatching the peanuts from the plastic cup. The little tree just past the lilac bush in front of the kitchen window was COVERED with blue jays, each taking their turn stealing nuts from the cup. All of this should explain the pie tin hanging from the aspen tree (bird feeder) and the plastic drinking cup hanging from the other tree when you visit the cabin next. We plan to work out the bugs of our ‘be kind to animals’ campaign over the next few visits.
And before I close, I need to apologize for doubting all of you who claimed that Alley Mills and Orson Bean moved into the cabin across the street. I finally had the opportunity to speak with them from across the roadway on several occasions and once at the store. She asked about Mimi and said to give her regards. I don’t know how much you all had to pay them to come up there and purpetrate this fraid (akin to the marching band tale of John’s) but BRAVO!


























