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United States without Lee, but then
he became my uncle when my mom’s sister Lani
(right with me) came up
to join us in Canada and she and
Lee fell in love.
During the very rainy summer of 1973, we looked for
land to buy around Killaloe while
staying at Nien Mar Campsite on Golden Lake.
It was then that my brother, myself and my father
took turns getting the mumps. Here is Nick having
his turn at campsite mumps.
(Not fun!)
at the campsite looking
like she had put a golf ball in her eye
because a black fly had bitten her there.
Finally we found land!
The first thing we did was burn “Rusty”
the leaky Nien Mar camping tent on our
new property and we moved all our stuff from California the very next summer.
An A-frame building was built from
the logs on the land and
some lumber Lee and Grant
took from a building they tore down in Killaloe.
We then built a summer kitchen and “E. Dition”.
Here is a picture of Pam in “E. Dition”
with Frank Cuddy looking through the window,
he was one of the two Cuddy brothers
who sold us our land.
They lived in the farm house next door
to us on Copp Road.
The structures we built on the land were not warm enough
so we stayed in Robin Newman’s
dome up Drohan Road the first winter.
Here is a picture of the dome.
It was still cold.
By the third summer
we put a road on our land.
Here is a picture of my Grandma and Grandpa
(from Minnesota) helping put up one of the corner
logs of the house.
Lee and Lani’s house was completed in time
for the third winter after we had moved from
California and we all lived in it together.
Here is a picture of our extended family
(with Mom and Lani’s parents)
in front of the completed house
Bedrock was blasted to make a basement.
Here is my father standing at the beginning of
the basement that would take 2 years to build.
on the house through the winter.
and looked like this in the spring.
We only lived in it until we moved to Ottawa in 1980
but it is still used all the time
as a cottage getaway and the best part is that
Lee and Lani still live next door!
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