Spider Lake Resort

We're planning a millennium quilt project for GenFest this year. Everybody is going to bring two squares each with his/her name on it. We're asking for two because it will take 100 squares to make a full size quilt. We'll have the quilt ready for the 2006 GenFest.

The real activity this year will be the Basswood Bend Film Festival - it should be a hoot. Teams will use video cameras to make "movies" - then we'll all watch everybody's movies and give out awards. The "Genevieves" (you know, like Oscars) came yesterday, and they are perfect. It should be a ton of fun.

In 2007, we're not having GenFest. That's the year of our 50th wedding anniversary and we want to do something special. There's a beautiful new resort on Spider Lake that's just perfect for our whole Genfest family. I think there's even room for Jim and Emilie, Kris&Mike and Dan&Pam. We plan to rent the whole thing for the weekend of June 22 & 23, 2007. Everybody can come and stay for two nights pre-paid by us, because that's the way we want to do it. It should be quite an adventure. There's a beautiful sandy beach, a boat dock for our pontoon, a place for a campfire, a game room with foosball, pool, game tables, shuffleboard,etc, two fully equipped huge kitchens, a community dining room, a fireplace lounge, a TV lounge, a workout room, 16 motel rooms on two floors, an elevator, - and what else would we need? They don't provide meals, but we could do meals on our own, or have the Saturday meal catered and then just do breakfast and snacks on our own. I'm leaning toward a catered meal on Saturday.

This Spider Lake Resort thing is NOT next year - it's 2007 !! In 2006, we'll just do a regular old run of the mill GenFest.

Today I went to JoAnn Fabric and bought everything (I hope) that I'll need to do machine embroidery on our quilt squares. I had looked up on the internet how to do it and what I would need - stabilizer, thread, needle size, etc. I bought remnants that I liked so I can make some extra squares to fill out the quilt. I don't know how to quilt, but I think I can sew the squares together and then have somebody else do the quilting. I have my fingers crossed that my "sew-chine" still works because I haven't tried it lately.

I had a nice visit with Mother - she's being well-cared for - seems alert and comfortable. She has an interest in what goes on outside her door - likes to watch people passing by.