Summer Sojourn, Day 06

Sunday was (mostly) a day of rest, and a day for visiting.


Before any festivities started, though, peas needed picking, and then shelling—we ended up with maybe a gallon, some of which will go into a childhood favorite, summer pea soup; back in the day it had potatoes robbed from still-growing plants, onions, and the coup de gras, beaten eggs drizzled into the hot soup so it cooked in threads.

Some of us took a walk back into the sugar bush—remember these?




After supper, Mike showed us a trail he's started cutting on the north side of "Hank Lake," where we got this view of it.


Back in the 50s Daddy (Hank) had a bulldozer in to scrape out a swampy area and build a berm on the south side of it. It now shows up in online maps, if you zoom in far enough.

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