Michele

Our lakefront boat house, your basic barn-shaped shed, is now a part of the scrap heap. It’s the only building that didn’t survive last week’s storm–the victim of not one but two trees that came to rest smack dab in the center of it. The good news is that Mike recycled some of the materials […]

Given the seemingly unending reports of inclement weather this summer, if a hurricane-force wind momentarily bursts through our property, takes out a few trees, rips apart furniture, boats, docks and boathouses, well so be it. It could have been a lot worse. The lake could have drained . . . or the tree that fell

My dad spent World War II at sea, convoying the North Atlantic. I spent a good portion of my childhood listening to his stories about this time in his life. Through these stories, Dad taught me a lot about geography, history, star constellations and weather. The weather wasn’t merely a conversation-filler for him. I believe

Check out the 40-inch prize muskie caught right out in front of our dock this morning (July 6, 2008). And we, Mike, Willow, a resort guest by the name of Sue and I, witnessed the entire catch.Pictured is Matt from Belvidere, IL visiting Squaw Lake this weekend, staying with our new neighbors. He’d never caught

We have a saying in the Northwoods: THERE ARE TWO SEASONS, WINTER AND THE FOURTH OF JULY. The latter is a quick 24 hours of tradition, which always includes a trip to the parade in downtown Lac du Flambeau. Except for when the 4th fell on a Saturday, we haven’t missed it in 16 years.

We interrupt this Sandy Point icon tour with a NEW development. First there was the outhouse/earth closet, now there is the new public rest room. Our new wash house, which we’ve already given a variety of names (and have yet to settle on one), features a flushing toilet, a sink, and one of those World

An outhouse, also known as a netty, privy, dunny, thunderbox, kybo, biffy, jakes or jacks, longdrop, Johnny-on-the-spot, one-holer, two-holer (for the more affluent and effluent), $hit house or earth-closet, usually refers to a type of toilet in a small structure separate from the main building, which does not have a flush or sewer attached. The

This is our vintage Fish Cleaning House, located on the Sandy Point shore of Squaw Lake and just next to the input creek known to us as “Cozzens’ Creek.” We can usually get a read on how the fish are biting each week by the amount of fish guts left behind in the disposal bins.

One of the first signs we hung at the end of Sandy Point Lane. We mean it. Please drive slowly coming in and out of Sandy Point Resort. Don’t let our speed bumps surprise you!

You can’t miss it. This giant flag hangs on the back of our Recreation House, which also is home to the Wisconsin Disc Golf Hall of Fame. That’s disc golf basket #22 in front of it, hence the name of this hole, “The Flag Hole.” This isn’t the orignal flag we had hung there. The