Happy Anniversary!

So over December break, we decided to do some shopping in Albany. As we neared the turn-off for the road that goes to the lake, I suggested to Steve that, since it was just one year since we first saw the island, we drive by the same route, just to reminisce. Last year, the first trip was made by driving along all the little lake roads so we could view it from various angles. Since the lake level was lowered, we couldn't actually get onto it in winter.

This year we just drove to the nearest point of the nearest road. And, lo and behold, we could see, even without the binoculars that helped us make a decision last December, that the new shed was laying on its side, toppled over by the recent storm we had! Were the anti-plastic gods punishing us for erecting it last summer? We won't know till late May how all the now-exposed tools & thinking swing fared.

But the thing that surprised me most was how ugly everything looks in December -- the roads, the terrain, the dried-up lake bed. I can't believe we had enough foresight to buy it then!