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This past weekend, we drove like crazy people eight hours north to take care of some details as we edge ever closer to realizing our dreams of a northwoods retreat. We’re almost there now. After more than a year of searching for land, and over a hundred days of trying to secure ingress/egress easements before [...]

Last Saturday we headed out early to spend the whole day at the annual South Suburban Cook County 4H fair at the Children’s Farm in Palos Hills. This is a day that Aidan was really looking forward to, and one that Mike and I were dreading. It is a long day–starting at before 9am and [...]

Late afternoon kicking around Marquette, we take to the road and drive east along the lake front. It is a chilly 58 degrees but Lake Superior calls to us, drawing us near. We arrive at Au Train beach just off M-28 as the cover of fog is lifting. I am struck by the geography of [...]