May 22-23, 2008 - Snow Lake, Indiana
We have friends from our neighborhood in Florida who live half year in Muncie, Indiana and half year in Deerfield Beach, FL. We’ve enjoyed getting to know them over the past eight years, sharing dinners, fishing together and meeting their visiting friends and family.
Bob and Claudia Broyle have had the good fortune of owning two cottages on Snow Lake along the Michigan border in north eastern Indiana. They have shared stories and pictures with us and have painted a magical “On Golden Pond” or “What About Bob” family vacation setting. Memorial Day weekend for most of the seasonal residents was a time to open things up for the busy summer season. We had the good fortune of stopping to help and enjoy a short visit.
Although I have experienced my share of dirt on this trip, I have missed doing yard work. I joined Claudia in going to the most gorgeous flower nursery that I have ever seen. The owners grow the flowers in four hot houses and are open and completely sold out of their inventory within three weeks during May!!! After buying flats of flowers we returned to plant them in pots around the deck which really added the punch of color and interest needed.
Neighbors were out doing the same and calling back to one another, inquiring how each others winters had been. You could hear the echoes of laughter by adults and giggles of children through the forest. There was a real sense of community where the people genuinely care about one another. Of course many of these people are into their third generation and share a history together.
The experience was a wonderful diversion from camping. We got to eat in a kitchen, sleep in a bedroom and shower without wearing flip-flops!!! Thank-you, Broyles! I will work for your pork chops anytime!!!
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