Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Days of Yore


A vintage photo of Blue Horizon Resort.
Simple simple pleasures
minus all of the modern trappings


This photo belongs to Donald Harrison's Flickr Photostream
entitled Up North Memories

I think it's rather quaint ...

especially the complimentary boat oars
awaiting vacationers by each cabin door
and the sun dappled lawn leading up to them.

You can almost smell the summer heat
radiating off the spicy sassafras trees
from your computer monitor!

Five more months people
and our vistas and weather will
resemble what we see here.

Can't wait.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Lost and FOUND

A boat load of things get lost at BSL,
or "simply go missing, dahling"
as our British friends might say.

Over the course of time,
where time equals decades
and even generations,
the Hofmans have lost
*in no particular order*


Bikini Tops

actually purloined we think


Boat Motors

just a simulation but it's been
on the bottom of the lake so long
I'm sure it looks uber "vies" by now


Wedding Rings

never found



Sometimes children .... briefly

found



Our appetites

deep fried food with mayo =
heart attack to go


Our way

"I thought we were in Lake County"



All Sense of Modesty


we won't name this child



and .... Countless Fishing Lures


often found in tree branches
or stuck to the back of your jacket



Soooooo .....

it is with deep satisfaction
and unbelievable excitement
and even a little bit of tear-jerky emotion
that for ONCE
we found something
that absolutely made everybody's day.

Here he is ....


with his very happy, huggy,
red-eyes-from-crying owner

This is neither here nor there
but I kinda think these kids are Dutch,
don't you?