Glorious weekend of relaxation!

I have been kindly ask to skip additional spider pictures and I will try to remember that going forward!!

We have running water in the cabin!!  WooHoo!!  We still need to hook up power to have hot water but just having running water and a drain is a major event.  Doing dishes is much easier (even if we still have to heat up the water at this point).  Next step, of course, is the water heater...planned for this week.

I wanted to give an update on K's treatment since I haven't mentioned that for a while.  She has completed 5 of the 12 chemo treatments and is going amazingly well.  She is not nauseated at all and her arm strength is improving (on the left side where the lymph nodes were removed).  She is in good spirits and looking forward to being through all of this and back to full strength and ability!  She will finish chemo in mid August and we believe that radiation will start in early September and run into October.

I can't remember when I last had 3 days with so much relaxation time!  We helped at the resort on Friday afternoon and took a load of camp fire wood over in the evening (in the rain).  The resort was fairly busy with 4 cabins, 4 campers, and 1 tenting group.  We slept in on Saturday and just lounged around all morning.  There was a birthday party for 2 guests at the resort on Saturday evening and we were invited to the potluck.  We had met some of the party attendees on previous camping trips so it was great to hang out with them and meet new people also.

Bill played bass guitar at church on Sunday morning and the place was packed due to the holiday weekend.  It was great to hear more contemporary music like what we hear back in St. Cloud.  There were 2 songs planned and 1 thrown in at the last minute (due to a request) but you know Bill, he rolled with the last minute request and really enjoyed playing again. 

After lunch we put the air conditioner in the loft window.  That went relatively smoothly and is really nice for cooling down the cabin when the sun is turning it into a hothouse (due to the windows) in the late afternoon.  We went fishing in the evening at Arrowhead lake and found the sunnies!  We ended up taking home about 30 sunnies and I had to push Bill to get off the lake before it got dark (as the fish were still biting)!  Here is a sunset picture from the lake.

Monday was another gloriously relaxing day!  We decided to road trip over to Effie and check out the Little American Falls on the Bigfork River.  If you are ever in Effie, we recommend the Effie Cafe but only if you have a lot of time.  The cook appears to make one order at a time and so the wait is a little long, especially when they were busy on the 4th!  We were there about one hour and ten minutes and about ten minutes of that was spent eating, but the food was worth wait!  While I don't do politics, I thought this was a rather funny political statement located on the edge of Effie.  If you can't see the pic well, the top part of the 2 story outhouse is labeled Politicians while the bottom part is labeled Taxpayers!

Due to all of the rain that we have been getting, the falls were really running and it was a beautiful day to just sit and contemplate life and God's blessings!  There were quite a few steps down (as seen in the first picture) and these were even more daunting on the return trip going UP the stairs!!

When we got back, we went to a party at the house of one of the young women who is in Bible Study with us.  They were having a jam session and Bill really enjoyed playing with the "old guys".  One of them had an old steel guitar from the 1930's and it was cool to see that and to hear him play.  The weather turned nasty in early evening so there was a scramble to get the tents down but we got them down before the storm hit.

Now we are back in our week day routine!  Got 2 cabins cleaned yesterday and we had a fish fry last night with K and D (as he had the day off) and a friend of theirs and our next door neighbor who has a camper on his land until he can build a cabin.  He works for the state and is "on vacation" until further notice!  We had walleye from Red Lake (donated by a resort guest) and the sunnies from Arrowhead.  It was a beautiful evening to sit outside, eat fresh fish (and rhubarb crunch!) and spend time talking with friends.  We are blessed and truly appreciative to God for the many blessings in our lives!