Loving Your Lake House
Virginia Wright shares tips on making the most of your cottage or camp.
Virginia Wright
1. Make hammock time
It doesn't quite rank up there with a dock, but a hammock may be the safest,
most hassle-free way to enhance the lake experience. "It's our family rule:
you have to make some hammock time," says Cheryl Wilcoxon, whose family has
a lake cottage in Litchfield, "and everyone who comes to visit has to get
into the hammock for a picture."
2. Build a fire pit
Every day ends with a campfire at Bob and Sue Hasson's camp on Schoodic Lake
in Lakeview Plantation. "There's singing and storytelling – we're talking
serious making up of stories," Bob says. "It's fun and the stars are just
incredible." Construct a simple fire pit by digging a hole roughly three to
four feet in diameter and a foot deep. Fill with four inches of pea gravel,
topped by a couple inches of sand. Surround the hole with two rows of dry
stacked flat rocks, bricks or landscaping blocks. Build your fire, roast
some marshmallows and watch the flames dance.
3. Go easy on the rules.
"We have one rule: There are no rules," Bob Hasson says, "but you can't do
anything dangerous. If you want cookies for breakfast, knock yourself out,
but if you're going to be towed by the boat, you have to wear a life jacket.
It's been our rule for thirty years and it's worked pretty well. "
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