Saturday, April 15, 2006

New Years

For New Years this year we went to some friends' cabin on a lake. By January most lakes are frozen enough to drive a bulldozer across them. And that's what some people do to haul buiding supplies to properties that are only accesible by the water during the summer. To get to our friends' cabin we had to drive a mile across the lake, and then park on the ice.


New Years here is like having a slumber party in a big tool shed. The floor is slanted with a few holes in it, but it's actually much nicer now in general than it was when they first got it. At that point it had been abandoned for years.




Although it's in the middle of nowhere, fireworks are legal here, and there are tons of cabins around the lake network full of firework enthusiasts. There were so many fireworks going off that cloudy night the sky looked like a warzone. It drove the dogs nuts. Fisher would see some blasts in the sky that had to be at least a mile away and he would take off running after it at full speed. By the time he got tired of running another one would go off in the same place and spur him on until we couldn't see him anymore. We had some of those star hovering fireworks and he kept attacking them when they went off until he got a little burned.