Young Fun
Before I was married, I got an offer to buy my friend’s uncle’s farm after he passed away. It was a small farm, and had a nice little lake/marsh on it. The uncle knew I liked the place, and told his wife that he would offer to sell it to me for a good price. His widow made me the offer at the funeral, and I couldn’t pass it up. I didn’t do anything with the lake, other than build a small cabin on it, and the widow lived in the main farm house until she passed on. The lake was my retreat from the city, and continued to be so even after I got married. My daughter spent a lot of time at the lake growing up, swam there, fished there, and as a …