“I have a silly idea,” Molly said as we lounged in our toasty cabin. “Let’s take a quick dip in the river.” Normally, this would be a no-brainer. Floating down the Oconto River remains one of our family’s favorite past times…in the summer. But an impressive spring snow and some daunting ice on the river [...]
We stole a slice of summer Wednesday night, which felt exactly right. With just hours of July to spare, we snuck out of the city and headed north toward tranquility. By 6 p.m. we were on the river and we let its current drift us home, to our cabin that, shockingly, I had seen just [...]
Some Wisconsin days develop soothingly, like a deep breath, a sweet segue from the staccato pace of summer, though hints of winter hover on the edges of the trees. Sunday felt like that for us and we unwrapped her slowly; tea on the front porch of our cabin, church in town, a stroll through the [...]
Until my brother in-law Dennis came to visit, we thought of the Oconto River as a recreational vehicle, transporting us via kayak, canoe, or inner tube from drop in point to cabin on frothy summer waves. It formed a scenic, babbling backdrop to the view from our front porch swing. Then Dennis arrived with his [...]