star island, part IV
May. 26th, 2004 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingToday was pancakes for breakfast, made with almost the last of the Bisquick. (Vicky is now laughing at me for asking how much Bisquick we have left, and caring enough to write about it. Sisters. Gotta love 'em.)
Today I have sawed branches, clipped branches and twigs, split logs, hauled logs around to woodpiles, refilled the woodbox, kept the fire going, and walked to the east portage and back. The portage leads from Cass Lake to Lake Windigo, the only lake-within-a-lake in the northern hemisphere, I believe. We're somewhat proud of that, on the island.
The mayflies are back, now that the weather's warmed up to 70-ish and the wind is southwesterly and thus not disturbing them in the long curve of the East Shore. Fortunately, they're pretty much a waterside and open space phenomenon, and don't go into the deep woods, unlike flies and mosquitoes. (Those vicious little beasts are mostly still unhatched, thank goodness.)
This evening we're packing up some non-essentials and taking them to the van so we won't be too heavily loaded tomorrow morning when we shut the cabin up again. Since people will be here off and on for the rest of the summer, we don't have to do nearly as much work leaving as we did when we arrived. The pump and the electricity stay on, for example.
I love the island, and I've really enjoyed the stillness of being up here so early when over half the cabins still don't have docks put in, let alone people inside. It's very peaceful.
But it will be nice to get home again.
Today I have sawed branches, clipped branches and twigs, split logs, hauled logs around to woodpiles, refilled the woodbox, kept the fire going, and walked to the east portage and back. The portage leads from Cass Lake to Lake Windigo, the only lake-within-a-lake in the northern hemisphere, I believe. We're somewhat proud of that, on the island.
The mayflies are back, now that the weather's warmed up to 70-ish and the wind is southwesterly and thus not disturbing them in the long curve of the East Shore. Fortunately, they're pretty much a waterside and open space phenomenon, and don't go into the deep woods, unlike flies and mosquitoes. (Those vicious little beasts are mostly still unhatched, thank goodness.)
This evening we're packing up some non-essentials and taking them to the van so we won't be too heavily loaded tomorrow morning when we shut the cabin up again. Since people will be here off and on for the rest of the summer, we don't have to do nearly as much work leaving as we did when we arrived. The pump and the electricity stay on, for example.
I love the island, and I've really enjoyed the stillness of being up here so early when over half the cabins still don't have docks put in, let alone people inside. It's very peaceful.
But it will be nice to get home again.
