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JL Girl · 03-08-2005, 02:02 AM

Thanks to FLboater, glennsteely, SPANKY, and ghfromaltonbay for welcoming me aboard - am glad to be part of you all forum-ites. Isn't it funny how someone else's memory can trigger off similar or additional memories of your own? Methinks the snow is getting to me, even though I'm a New Englander and a full-time resident...waiting for spring and those perfect temps, the green-up, and my beloved Lake Winni to emerge from its winter encasement. Having rented up here for 20 years, every summer when we'd arrive at the lake, I would love to see all the changes that had occurred over the winter - new buildings, new restaurants, stores, etc. Then, when we got to "camp" (our rented cottage), it always seemed as if there would be a loon out in front of the cottage that first day and on the day we left (and in between too). It was like a sign of welcome home (just like in OGP). I used to turn my bed around so that the head was near an open screened window. I'd lie awake at night, listening to the night lake sounds, with the breeze blowing. The lake was always my "soul restorer" - it somehow took all those accumulated workaday stresses away. Anybody ever have a rowboat that you just took out and meandered about, stopping to look over the side and watch the sun's rays angling down toward the bottom? Does anybody remember the year that Sun's Up Restaurant opened in the place that's now Down-A-Size in Center Harbor? It was run by Strawberry Patch out of Wolfeboro and they had the best breakfasts and lunches. I hated that it lasted only one season. I also miss Porky's on Route 25 in Moultonborough too - it had the best lobster rolls and onion rings. This past summer, I watched a set of pink flamingo yard ornaments be moved from house to house up the Moultonborough Neck Road in all types of arrangements over the summer - sometimes, they would be arranged against a hay bale, sometimes a few would be in trees and a few on the ground - it was a private joke probably amongst the Road residents but I got a kick out of it. Not sure if anyone ever noticed 'cept me! Does penny candy remind anybody of your childhood - although it's probably $.25 a piece now. I promise to shut up now but my past and my present are bound inextricably to "water" and I've enjoyed reading all your memories - think we are getting restless for winter to go and spring to come!

03-08-2005, 02:02 AM	#76
JL Girl Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 76 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Thanks to FLboater, glennsteely, SPANKY, and ghfromaltonbay for welcoming me aboard - am glad to be part of you all forum-ites. Isn't it funny how someone else's memory can trigger off similar or additional memories of your own? Methinks the snow is getting to me, even though I'm a New Englander and a full-time resident...waiting for spring and those perfect temps, the green-up, and my beloved Lake Winni to emerge from its winter encasement. Having rented up here for 20 years, every summer when we'd arrive at the lake, I would love to see all the changes that had occurred over the winter - new buildings, new restaurants, stores, etc. Then, when we got to "camp" (our rented cottage), it always seemed as if there would be a loon out in front of the cottage that first day and on the day we left (and in between too). It was like a sign of welcome home (just like in OGP). I used to turn my bed around so that the head was near an open screened window. I'd lie awake at night, listening to the night lake sounds, with the breeze blowing. The lake was always my "soul restorer" - it somehow took all those accumulated workaday stresses away. Anybody ever have a rowboat that you just took out and meandered about, stopping to look over the side and watch the sun's rays angling down toward the bottom? Does anybody remember the year that Sun's Up Restaurant opened in the place that's now Down-A-Size in Center Harbor? It was run by Strawberry Patch out of Wolfeboro and they had the best breakfasts and lunches. I hated that it lasted only one season. I also miss Porky's on Route 25 in Moultonborough too - it had the best lobster rolls and onion rings. This past summer, I watched a set of pink flamingo yard ornaments be moved from house to house up the Moultonborough Neck Road in all types of arrangements over the summer - sometimes, they would be arranged against a hay bale, sometimes a few would be in trees and a few on the ground - it was a private joke probably amongst the Road residents but I got a kick out of it. Not sure if anyone ever noticed 'cept me! Does penny candy remind anybody of your childhood - although it's probably $.25 a piece now. I promise to shut up now but my past and my present are bound inextricably to "water" and I've enjoyed reading all your memories - think we are getting restless for winter to go and spring to come!