I’ve just been back a few days since my 3 weeks “Up North at our cabin.  I knew it would not be a “relaxing” vacation, but a working one.  I had planned to power wash, stain (two coats) and put one coat of a gloss finish on it, and begin the process of chinking between the logs before I left.

The materials I needed came on that first Tuesday morning, but the water tank for power washing came late in the day.  My plan was to start on Wednesday morning–but Wednesday morning it was raining, so I started on Thursday instead.

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When our children graduate from high school, and go off to college, we never know what they will do, who they will hang out with, what kinds of things they will experiment with, or how much they will study.  Some of the things they do (like perhaps we did at that age) we really don’t want to know, and they wouldn’t want us to know either, any more than we wanted our parents to know all the things we were doing.

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