Got off to a late start Saturday after doing the necessary chores at home. (Owning a vacation home clarifies the reasons to not have a vacation home.)
We hauled some 300 lb. of salt with us to feed the cabin's water softener this winter. I'm fairly sure that shipping salt everywhere, and carrying it up two flights of stairs, is not a sustainable system. I have yet to discover the alternative, but I am convinced there must be one.
On Sunday morning, my wife and eldest son walked to the green bridge, the same destination he and I sought two weeks ago. He even managed on the return walk to survive a slide down the same hill he and I stopped at.
While they were hiking, my younger son demonstrated how Stomp Rockets can be used to strike at bird nests. I offered him a dollar if he could land one in a trash can, but he soon changed the bet to pay himself a dollar if he could land a rocket on the roof of the cabin.
Later Mommy made an emergency trip to the drug store while the rest of us played archery. Fortunately she returned with Chinese food in time to save the family again.
Many goals were accomplished during our short visit. No fewer than ten black walnuts were planted in hopes of growing trees. We planted a patch of Jerusalem Artichokes--an edible, native tubor that is neither from Jerusalem, nor an artichoke--in hopes of harvesting them next fall. A new shelf was installed in the shed for drying walnuts (or, in our case this year, butternuts).
Mommy made spaghetti on Saturday and we ate at Weavers's of Hancock on the way out Sunday.
Pictured above, Cliff Bar seasonal flavors include gingerbread and pumpkin spice. Mommy thought about buying them, and Daddy did!
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