The end of Michigan’s season for us is always bittersweet. We head to sunny Florida, but the autumn leaves are so beautiful, especially around the boathouse and on Loon Lake. Our last boat ride before storing the boat for the winter was stunning. Calm lake, blue skies, baby loon growing, and foliage on display in […]
Kathy Baker
Happy Summering 2023
We have had the kind of Spring in Michigan that can only be described as inconsistent, except we all know Michigan weather. Mother Nature cried with rain through early spring and now it is more like summer, with temperatures ranging from the 70s to the 90s! We arrived in mid-May from Florida to the trees […]
Happy New Year 2023
It was a year! Covid continued to rear its ugly head, keeping family and friends apart, but not for long. Our family, spread out between California and Florida, managed to get together. Two hurricanes ravaged our Florida property while we watched one of them on television from Michigan. Four days later, we arrived to no […]
Bats in the Belfry
We purchased the lodge in the winter of 1987, freezing like the Floridians we had become. Our children were experiencing their first snow, with all the activities we enjoyed growing up–skiing, snowmobiling, ice-skating, tobogganing and creating snowmen. It was an eventful vacation that culminated in our new summer home. The ceiling was still just open […]
Summertime @ Camp Maqua
Our kids wait all year for summer to arrive on Loon Lake to make new memories for their kids. It is not an easy flight with two daughters and their families living in California. The drive is long for two sons residing in Florida, but flights are plentiful. This airline industry, staff shortages, gas prices, […]
Summer at Maqua!
I have plans to make an “Opening Up” bible for this lodge. As minimal as I think I have kept this summer home, there is so much to do! (Will my kids know what to do if we are gone?) Not only the cleaning but un-storing all the summer stuff. Cushions and porch furniture washed, […]