glen lake 2009

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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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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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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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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.