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| Knit Along yarn |
Beginning of October was the annual crafting retreat with Mom, Charlene and Rosie. We wanted to have a longer retreat this year so started things on Wednesday. Our first stop was at Herrschner's on the way up. Didn't find much that tempted me but did find an adorable stamp for making cards.
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We arrived at our cabin around mid afternoon, while the cabin was nice, wasn't quite what we wanted as it wasn't right close to the water though you could see it (what a bunch of ingrates!). After we got our gear in the cabin we went to St. Germaine to buy our groceries. After dinner, we spent the evening working on our projects and watching a movie.
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| Charlene reading the paper |
Thursday was really low key, for the most part. During the day we watched movies, I went to
Sutter's Goldn' Fleece for a little shopping. Pictured is one of the yarns that I purchased. It is for a knit along the store is participating in run by
Knit Purl Hunter. January will be the start of the third knit along and I haven't even started the project for this yarn, guess I better get cracking on these projects!!
After lunch we went for a work down to the end of our lane to explore a bit. Charlene had promised to bring back some leaves for one of her coworkers so we had fun looking for different leaves.
Mid afternoon we lost our electricity due to high winds. Apparently out in the backwoods when the wind is really gusty power outages are common. Thankfully we had a fireplace in our cabin though we never got a good blaze going that first night as the wood was damp from the drizzle that had been going on and off during the day (hmm note to self always bring in wood when you have a fireplace). Very glad we had some heat from the fireplace and plenty of layers of clothes/blankets. Mom, Rosie and I slept in the living room tending to the fire during the night and Charlene was bundled under blankets.
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| Great source of heat if you have dry wood! |
Friday morning we still didn't have power but this was fine as this was our planned exploring day. Before heading out for breakfast, we brought in wood just in case the power didn't come back on while we were out. The hope was maybe the wood could dry up a little (or at least wouldn't be in the damp pile outside). Once this was accomplished, we started off with breakfast at a local diner that was super busy. Which was easily understood as the food was very tasty! We then went to Eagle River to pick up a distant cousin of my Dad's who had lived most of her live up in the Eagle River (believe she is in her late 80's). As Mary does't walk that well, we drove enjoying the fall colors and her showing us different places she had lived/places she thought were interesting.
After our day visiting with Mary, we went back to the cabin. Thankfully the power was back on so we had constant heat from the furnace instead of having to worry about our fire making efforts. But wouldn't you know it, now when we didn't need the fire we were suddenly a bunch of pyromaniacs (or maybe it had something to do with the wood being inside instead of the damp cold outside?)
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| Mom working on her plastic canvas |
Saturday morning was spent working on our projects out on the deck. After lunch, we went into St. Germaine for a little shopping (not many shops) and some ice cream. The evening was spent watching movies and working on our projects. Before going to bed, Mom and I rearranged the furniture in the living room. We had done a little rearranging when the electricity went out so we could share the lantern/be closer to the fireplace. We had liked the coziness of this that we never changed it; hopefully we put things back in their correct spots.
Didn't take very long to clean up things and get the van loaded for the return trip home. All in all a very lovely retreat once again.
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| Rosie checking the outdoors |
