Final Blog Update - Back to St. Cloud

I know it has been forever since I have updated the blog and that has been because we have been busy running back and forth between Northome and St. Cloud!  As of October 1st, I am officially back to work in the office full time and we are moved back home.

As we were winding down on our time up north, I realized that I probably never posted pictures of the cabin and bunkhouse/office so here are some pics of the cabin, the bunkhouse/office, the outhouse (with the door open), and the storage shed/work area.

One of the last work efforts up north was to clean up some old wood piles.  Haley, remember helping me to make all of these woods piles a couple of years ago??  Here are before and after pics and it is SO nice to have this mess finally cleaned up!

And, of course, the weather and leaves were absolutely beautiful on our last days:

Our friend, K, finished her last radiation treatments shortly after we moved home but the work load was low enough and she felt good enough to keep up on the resort work.  We miss seeing both K and D on a regular basis but look forward to going up there next weekend and participating in a "farewell" potluck at church.

It was an incredibly complex experience to spend the 5 months living up north and helping at the resort.  There were some truly wonderful moments and some truly difficult moments but we are still thankful to God that we had the opportunity to do this to help our friends.   We have decided that running a resort is not something that we would want to do full time nor will we retire fully to this area.  We will plan to spend summers at our cabin after retirement but will continue to have a main home in a larger metro area like St. Cloud.

Thank you to everyone who followed this blog and who supported us with your thoughts and prayers during this big adventure!