I'm up early. Can't sleep. It's been a blur of activity as we've moved things in to the Playhouse, gotten things set up, and made arrangements for things to come. The deck was completed yesterday and it was a beautiful evening, so we pulled some chairs out on the deck and sat in the sun to enjoy the moment and dream of the summer to come.

The level of the lake is lower than the folks have ever seen it in the years they've spent their summers at the lake. The lake has been lowered in anticipation of the floodwater moving this direction from the north after record snowfall this winter. The dock, which normally floats in 8-10 feet of water was sitting on the bottom of the lake.

We made our first meal in the new kitchen. Wendy threw some baked potatoes and garlic bread in the oven while Dad and I pulled the grill out of mothballs and fired it up for the first time of the season. Garlic-herb chicken on the grill was the menu for the evening. We opened a bottle of wine and went to work discussing the to-do list for the weekend and planning the finishing of the lower level.

I should be tired, but my brain is buzzing. So I'm up posting these pics.