glen lake 2009
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Vacation memories of Glen Lake, August 2009TRANSCRIPT
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Glen Lake 2009
The Marys Turn Fifty
Friends
Woods and Stream
Family
Food
Sun and Water
Poetry by Robert Frost
August 1 — August 15, 2009
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What Fifty Said
When I was young my teachers were the old.I gave up fire for form till I was cold.I suffered like a metal being cast.I went to school to age to learn the past.
Now I am old my teachers are the young.What can’t be molded must be cracked and sprung.I strain at lessons fit to start a suture.I go to school to youth to learn the future.
—R.F.
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The Marys Turn Fifty
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A Time to Talk
When a friend calls to me from the roadAnd slows his horse to a meaning walk,I don’t stand still and look aroundOn all the hills I haven’t hoed,And shout from where I am, “What is it?”No, not as there is a time to talk,I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,Blade-end up and five feet tall,And plod: I go up to the stone wallFor a friendly visit.
—R.F.
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Friends
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In Hardwood Groves
The same leaves over and over again!They fall from giving shade above,To make one texture of faded brownAnd fit the earth like a leather glove.
Before the leaves can mount againTo fill the trees with another shade,They must go down past things coming up.They must go down into the dark decayed.
They must be pierced by flowers and putBeneath the feet of dancing flowers.However it is in some other worldI know that this is the way in ours.
—R.F.
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Woods and Stream
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Devotion
The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean—Holding the curve of one’s position,Counting an endless repetition.
—R.F.
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Family
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Unharvested
A scent of ripeness from over a wall.And come to leave the routine roadAnd look for what had made me stall,There sure enough was an apple treeThat had eased itself of its summer load,And of all but its trivial foliage free,Now breathed as light as a lady’s fan.For there there had been an apple fallAs complete as the apple had given man.The ground was one circle of solid red.
May something go always unharvested!May much stay out of our stated plan,Apples or something forgotten and left,So smelling their sweetness would be no theft.
—R.F.
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Food
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Pancakes
Sour Cream Pancakes* (serves 15)
4 1/2 c flour 1 1/2 c sour cream9 T sugar 2 1/4 c milk6 tsp baking powder 6 extra-large eggs4 1/2 tsp kosher salt 3 tsp vanilla extract 3 tsp grated lemon zest
In a large bowl, sift together the dry ingredients. Whisk together the wet ingredients in a separate bowl. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredi-ents, mixing only until combined.
Spoon batter onto griddle. Add blueberries or chocolate chips. Flip when cooked on one side.
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Tacos
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Other fabulous meals we shared:
Grilled whitefish and skewered shrimp, with Nina’s spinach salad and red potatoes
Leftover whitefish mocked up as Art’s whitefish dip, on bread
Pork tenderloin with Hoisin sauce, with rice and corn on the cob
The Barefoot Contessa’s spaghetti and meatballs
Hot dogs and home-made potato salad
Cherry and peach glazed chicken with rice and stir-fried green beans
And of course, a few meals and treats at our favorite Glen Arbor hot spots:
Art’s TavernCherry RepublicGood Harbor GrilleBear Claw PizzaLeelanau Coffee RoastersThe Pine ConeThe Foothills Cafe
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Shrimp Boil
Shrimp Boil (serves 18, with leftovers)
8 lbs. small red and yellow potatoes4lbs. keilbasa, cut into 3-inch chunks8 lbs. easy-peel uncooked shrimp (de-veined)9 ears corn, broken in half
Fill a large turkey fryer 2/3 full with water. Bring to a boil. Toss in red potatoes. Ten minutes later, toss in kielbasa. Ten minutes later, toss in corn. Ten minutes later, toss in shrimp. Cook for 3-5 minutes more. With a sieve or slotted spoon, transfer all to large platter. Serve with drawn butter and salt and pepper.
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Fragmentary Blue
Why make so much of fragmentary blueIn here and there a bird, or butterfly,Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,when heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)—though some savants make earth include the sky;And blue so far above us comes so high,It only gives our wish for blue a whet.
—R.F.
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Sun and Water
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Jared
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Dee
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Kevin
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Curtis
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Sam
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Alex
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Steve
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Mary Lou
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Katie
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Frank
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Katherine
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Chris
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The End
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We are so blessed with our health, our adventures and our love for our families and friends.The only thing better than being at Glen Lake for two weeks would be being at Glen Lake for three. See ya next year. Same time. Same place.
Much love,
Marilee and Mary Lou
Mary Lou Schmidt
Steve Schmidt
Alex Schmidt
Sam Schmidt
Kevin Schmidt
Curtis Phillippi
Dee Lee
Jared Goldstein
Martin Davis
Andy Heywood
Jesse Van Buren
James Schuster
Cathy Schuster
Jonathon Schuster
Michael Schuster
Lisa Schuster
Bennie Schuster
Marilee Bowles-Carey
Chris (Topher) Carey
Frank Bowles
Katherine Leonard
Katie Bowles
Susan Gamerman
Nina Abnee
Eric Gerstner
Matt Gardner
Alissa Gardner
Mary Kay McCaw
Ulrike Anders
Dave Vavra
Kip Pope
Janet Pope
Carl Barnes
Lisa Barnes
Freddie Barnes
Emma Barnes
Dave Lewis
Tara Lewis
Amy Lewis
Mike Lewis
Family and Friends:
*Sour Cream Pancakes recipe adapted
from Ina Garten’s Banana Sour Cream
Pancakes, in the Barefoot Contessa
Family Style cookbook.