Actually it isn’t exactly a beach here at the Hoton Lake Group Home aka the cFam cabin. This is an inland lake (albeit a LARGE one) so, unlike the oceans or Great Lakes, there aren’t long stretches of sugar sand beach. Mostly people have seawalls, like the cFam does. There are little pieces of sand beach but they are few and far between and some of them are man-made.

The moomincabin is on a 3/4 mile (or so) sugar sand beach on the Upper St. Marys River (no apostrophe in “Marys”). It is not quiiiiite on Lake Superior but faces northwest into Whitefish Bay (cue Gordon Lightfoot) which *is* part of Lake Superior. The moominbeach is a sunset beach.

The cFam cabin is different than the moomincabin. For one thing, it is a totally modern HOUSE although it was much more rustic before the cFam parents died and the cFam sibs rebuilt it. The moomincabin is semi-rustic, mainly that it is not insulated. Nevertheless, it is pretty comfortable except when it’s frozen solid like it probably is now.

I knew the minute I first arrived at the moldy old cFam cabin, in the winter when we had to flush the toilet with buckets of water, that the GG was the guy for me. Go figger. Of course, meeting two of his brothers (including his ID twin), and his (late) little sister (18 or 19 then), The Beautiful Suzie, helped seal the deal. I remember Suze being a bit skeptical of meeeee that weekend. Like, “why is SHE riding in the front passenger seat. That’s MY seat.” But Suze and I bonded PDQ. We loved each other and I miss her greatly.

I watched the sun rise this morning and then we moseyed over to Little Boots Country Diner for breakfast. It’s my first time there since before covid. Before that, we went there all the time. I ordered my usual, the Smokin’ Gun Quesadilla. It is lovely and comes served in three triangular pieces with little containers of salsa and sour cream on the side. My pre-covid approach to what is kind of a lot of food for me was to eat two of the triangular pieces and box the other for breakfast the next day. I haven’t been eating big breakfasts since covid and I could only manage one triangle today. But that’s okay because we have TWO triangles left for breakfast tomorrow. One for meeeee and one for the GG.

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