By Lora Langowski FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, MY FAMILY HAS BEEN CELEBRATING THE DAYS PRECEDING AND FOLLOWING NEW YEAR’S EVE AT OUR LAKE CABIN. NEARING THE END OF 2020, IT SEEMED ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT TO CARRY ON THIS TRADITION… Late in the afternoon on December 30th, my husband, our daughters and I packed up our truck with food and supplies (and our dog) and headed out to our cabin on Eagles Nest Lake #3. Luckily, our cabin is only a short 35-minute drive from our house, but oftentimes it seems a world away. All of us were very excited to get out to the lake and enjoy our annual end-of-the-year celebration.
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We arrived at our cozy little cabin a short time later and got to work. Because we shutter our cabin for the winter, we needed to heat up our fireplace to warm things up and turn on the propane and power. We don’t have running water over the winter months, so my husband also sets up a makeshift outhouse…FUN. However, the most important task in my mind is stoking the sauna stove! Being a true Finnish girl, I believe we can’t have a celebration without a good, hot sauna. That evening, our girls skated outside on the lake while I stayed inside and made dinner. We’re lucky in the fact that every year my father-in-law (grandpa) works hard on creating an ice rink in front of our cabin. It’s always the
