- star-lit hot tub chats with my roommate, Morgan (interrupted only by occasional frigid plunges into the lake)
- berry picking, bike riding, and swimming with Stephanie
- a little girl who told her parents, "I wanna grow up to be like Carlyn"
- a guest capsizing a canoe... and a kayak... twice...
- dinner and game nights at the Flop House with the bakery girls
- Harvest Fest with Kelly (and our balcony giggle session)
- solo Rainbow Lake overnight "It's in the name!"
- seeing bear prints on Monday beach while watching the spawning salmon with my husband (not a boulder, but just as good)
- nightly dinners, movie nights, and parties in the Hobbit Hole
- intimately getting to know my boats (Japhy, you're still my favorite!)
- slack lining with Hannah and Bren
- juggling nights watching Elsa improve and playing with Mischa
- Cleatus and Bonham's aquatic shenanigans
- journaling on the Lakeshore Trail overlook
- morning yoga on the docks
- watching the seaplanes coming and going (or really watching the guests get really excited about it)
- watching a lightning storm start a wildfire
- watching the progression of wildfire over two months
- square dancing at the orchard
- helping an 80-year old woman live out her dreams of kayaking across the lake to see the pictographs
stay together
learn the flowers
go light
- Gary Snyder
