"Goodbye Summer"
Labor Day weekend has traditionally been "the end of summer". Corporate America goes back to work (well, that remains to be seen in 2020!), schools are back in full swing (for how long remains to be seen!), and those vacations and summer activities are but memories (2020 will be long remembered, right?). In an earlier blog, I wrote about long-ago memories of Battle Lake and the many summers spent at our cottage. Labor Day was the weekend when Clyde and/or Ashton would journey to northern Minnesota to remove the dock, store it in sections on the lawn, and bring the boat lifts far enough inland to avoid the ice that would inevitably come to rest on the shoreline. Obviously, they brought a crew with them. Another major activity during Labor Day weekend was "boarding up" all the windows, shutting off the water, and "winterizing" the cottage. It was important to plug any openings so that animals wouldn't "invade" our living areas during the