Give us a 3 day weekend, and we are likely to run away to the Lake.
We've just returned home from the most delightful two-day respite, a total escape from the real world in our family's favorite place.
I am so grateful for 3 day weekends. And for the weather that allowed us to enjoy this one so fully...
A quick review of the Final Farley's visit for the year...
We left at 5:00 Friday night and had a quick, uneventful drive and a lovely restful night in the cool weather at the Point.
Woke Saturday to some pretty intense fog. Apparently this lake-fog is quite normal this time of year, a heavy cloud of white resting directly over the water. We could hardly see past the end of the docks from the cottage but by the time I reached the end of the Point road on my morning run, I could see evidence of what was to be a brilliantly sunny day...
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| Farley's: home to all spiders in the universe. Also, fog plus sunlight transforms webs into art. |
The glassy calm lake begged us to go for a boat ride. Sadly, the engine on the Morehouse boat continued its streak of unreliability, and wouldn't start for us. So, time on the docks and then a jaunt in the canoe had to suffice...
Spent the rest of the morning in Aurora, enjoying the swing and finding treasures in the attic...
Then, off the adorable Aurora Farmer's Market to get fireman's grilled chicken for supper...
... and zuchini and tomatoes and apples and corn and a raspberry turnover because I can't be stopped at Farmer's Markets..
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| Ivy: I can carry the corn myself, Daddy! |
The wind had come up by the time we returned to the point so Nat took the kids out sailing.
This is Jack's post-sailing face...
Corydon wanted to go too...
Quiet sitting around time ensued... ( no pictures but trust me when I say it was pretty nice to sit around in the shade reading while my kids played with cousins....)
Then-- Nat and Randy disappeared to the docks and lo! A working boat! And a quick afternoon ride that was worth the price of admission...
Both kids got to drive, twice. This one is getting pretty confident, isn't he? We hit a lot of boat wakes while we were out, and Jack took us over a set that bounced the whole boat into the air. Not fazed. What a big kid.
Late afternoon at the cottage: cousins everywhere!
It never ceases to amaze me how this tiny space can absorb so much activity...
Meanwhile, outside: Afternoon drinks and conversation with the assembled family...
Then, a scrumptious dinner, complete with the best corn in the universe. Nothing like NY state sweet corn, those tender kernels popping in your mouth.... a vegetable that BOTH of my kids will willingly eat! Huzzah!
After dinner, a gymnastics show by Izzy and Ivy, at the playground. Ivy is becoming quite the daredevil on the rings and hanging bars, flipping upside down, hanging by her knees. She and Izzy called this the "olympics"...
Sunday: Mostly not pictured because we were took busy enjoying. Enjoying a leisurely morning (Nat at Long Point, kids and I eating peach pancakes at home -- oh how I love peach pancakes!)... following by more leisure time reading and swimming and kayaking and canoeing to Eagle Cove and cleaning off the raft and talking with family and neighbors. The kids were occupied with their cousins ALLLL day-- I think I spent about 12 minutes with Ivy the entire time. She moved in to the big cottage where she and Izzy played blissfully with Littlest Pet Shop figurines for the duration. Jack and Alex alternately obsessed over video games and played idyllically at the playground. I finished an entire novel and had time for crochet, too. It was amazing.
Evening found our front lawn the site of the informal Labor Day cocktail hour, with just about all of the remaining Point residents gathered for drinks and snacks and the world's best deviled eggs.
Only at Farley's do you see a tray of deviled eggs done up like this.
Then a second amazing dinner with MORE amazing corn...\
And a calm, quiet sunset to usher out the day.
The lake was so smooth we decided to steal the boat out for a 5 minute ride, sketchy mother be damned.
So glad we did. The lake at sunset is magical, and even more so when you are ON the water, the wind and sun mingling together into the pure, distilled essence of summer.
Bottling this up for keeps.
Quiet socializing by candlelight...
... snuggling in to a nighttime cottage... (my happy place! Can you get any more beautiful than this room??)
Today-- a 12 mile run through Aurora and back, a perfect short swim with Nat, cleaning our cottage til it glowed as the children played a little more with cousins, and leisurely coffee in the side yard-- all in time to get to lunch at McGee by noon. Farley's has a special relationship with time, I think.
It was a picture perfect weekend -- couldn't have designed a better stay at the Point, except maybe to make it 100 times longer..
Til next year, Lake. Thanks for helping us to usher out summertime in style.
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