Flooding and fog

We headed out for the cabin yesterday but weren't able to make it because the roads were flooded. It was incredible to see roads completely lost underwater, gazebos located in the middle of new lakes, rivers rushing up over their banks. I feel terrible for the people who are having to deal with the destruction and hassle of this flood, but I've never seen this level of flooding first hand and it was very exciting and beautiful.

My neck of the woods

For the last few Saturdays I've been helping my family build a shed on our Monroe property. (I'm starting to think of it as ours instead of my dad's now that I've put some work into it. Plus I received a fortune cookie that said "You will inherit and small piece of land" so I'm pretty sure it will be legally mine someday.) We still have a ways to go but I'm excited to get this thing built!

Dad's cabin

I still have some travel photos I want to post, but I feel like getting back to every day life today and every day life included a visit to my dad's cabin. The cabin is located on some property near Monroe and is one of those middle of the woods, get away from it all kind of places. There is no running water or electricity up there and only one place where you can make cell phone calls ("call rock"). The previous owner logged the property so my dad has been working on restoring it: replanting trees, making trails, building a shed, stuff like that. He's got big plans for it and I like watching how things progress.

A bunch of my aunts and uncles and a few cousins were in town for my grandma's birthday so we had a little family extravaganza with cake in a park and then a caravan up to the cabin. There we ate tin foil dinners roasted on the campfire, rode the ATV around, did a little target practice with the BB gun, and played a little get-to-know-you game my dad invented. It was an overall awesome time.