Friday, August 16, 2013

You can take the girl out of the city ...



Well, she flinched over Daddy longlegs and got a bit spastic about the Dragonflies, but the girl from Queens grabbed a paddle, put on a life vest and plopped herself down for her first canoe ride in a long time last weekend at Loveless Lake.
About the only thing Ashley didn’t do during our quick overnight was to take a dip in Loveless, whose inconsolable name she could not abide. “It just makes me so sad,” she kept repeating. Even when we explained that the lake was named after a lumber baron. “It just makes me so sad,” she said.

Nonetheless, we built fires, had a couple rounds of s’mores and met a few more neighbors at the second annual Loveless Lake picnic. Ashley quashed her jitters and bravely camped out on the floor of the weeHouse, where the smitten Chipper kept a vigilant watch over his new  friend.
Soon Ashley will be on her way back to graduate school in California, a budding journalist in the making. I assured her that the bravery and curiosity she showed deep in the woods of Wisconsin would serve her well in her chosen profession.


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