Anyone Else?

AC2717 · 05-23-2011, 09:29 AM

I do not know about anyone else, but daughter, wife and myself cannot wait for Thursday night to get here to officially start the season!!!!!

All that is on our minds, which is probably why the day is dragging.
My wife last night said, "is it thursday yet??
My Daughter woke up this morning and asked the same thing and said she just wants it to be thursday already, when I had to remind her it was Monday

Here we go Thursday, Here we go..

Happy Gourmand · 05-23-2011, 11:47 AM

But not till Saturday AM due to some unfortunate family obligations....can't wait!!

NHBUOY · 05-23-2011, 11:58 AM

...weatherwise...you aren't missing much..

...but looks to clear up just in time for you guys...

...

AC2717 · 05-23-2011, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by NHBUOY

...weatherwise...you aren't missing much..

...but looks to clear up just in time for you guys...

...

At this point, weather is not even bothering me, but I am sure it will if it is bad over the weekend at that point. Right now just want to get there

bresmom82 · 05-23-2011, 12:08 PM

We are leaving Friday. Can't wait to head up there and get away. My countdown started last week!!

eillac@dow · 05-23-2011, 12:23 PM

Funny….yesterday talking with my husband…I said…Ok…you head straight from work to NH Friday night (he works in Boston and we live South…no sense in heading home). The kids have no school, so I figure they can go up with their aunt or grandmother. This Friday, at my work…we start half day Fridays….so I figure I will just hit the road from work. Good…everything is planned!

Got to work this morning…started thinking of the weekend…and what comes to mind….BUT THE DOG! How is Hunter getting to NH?

If anyone is looking forward to NH….it is Hunter. He just needs the island to just GO AND RUN! One full weekend of no leashes, no electronic collar….just doing what he wants. Plus he gets to meet up with his Canine friends from last summer!

Looks like I will be making the 50 minute drive home to pick up Hunter!

It was a long Winter….and this Spring is killing me. Pray for sun! Have fun everyone!

tricia1218 · 05-23-2011, 01:11 PM

Hoping to be on the road early afternoon on Friday, pick up neice on the way. Husband, daughter, and dog will already be at the lake, hoping they can get all the hard lifting done before I get there :-) Here is hoping for better weather! So ready the weekend and it is only Monday.

Lakesrider · 05-23-2011, 01:59 PM

Bring your Black Fly juice up too. It stopped raining for a bit yesterday and when I went to mow my foot high lawn, the black flies went on a rampage. I was covered in them every time I would stop to go the other way with the mower.... Can't wait for the mosquitoes with all this water and standing ponds.
Yeah it's gonna be a great weekend to sit indoors and play cards!......

Jeanzb1 · 05-23-2011, 02:17 PM

We left Florida (hot, humid and bumper crop of lovebugs) on May 10th and arrived at Lake Winni on May 11th. Gorgeous weather on the 12th......and we have not turned off the heater, nor seen the sun ever since. Rain, rain, and more rain. And in Florida they are in a severe drought and would LOVE some of our rain. Oh well, it's good Scrabble, knitting, Internet, and reading weather.....

Newbiesaukee · 05-23-2011, 02:19 PM

We came up for the season last week. Weather is not great....but I wouldn"t want to be anywhere else.

Lakesrider · 05-23-2011, 06:21 PM

Well, there is a bit of a positive note to all this. I have been getting a lot of house cleaning done. I got rid of two pick up truck loads of plain old junk. I got two bags of clothes off to Good Will and 7 coats off to the coat drive bin at Burlington Coat outlet in Nashua. Tonight, I tuned up some power tools and sharpened the lawn mower blades. Next up is to do some finish painting left over from my bathroom remodel project of last Fall. Yeah I procrastinated just a bit. And if this keeps up I am going to put in a tile back splash in the kitchen. If the weather breaks and the sun comes out I am off cruising in the Cobra instead of the Honey Do projects...

eillac@dow · 05-23-2011, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Lakesrider

Well, there is a bit of a positive note to all this. I have been getting a lot of house cleaning done. I got rid of two pick up truck loads of plain old junk. I got two bags of clothes off to Good Will and 7 coats off to the coat drive bin at Burlington Coat outlet in Nashua. Tonight, I tuned up some power tools and sharpened the lawn mower blades. Next up is to do some finish painting left over from my bathroom remodel project of last Fall. Yeah I procrastinated just a bit. And if this keeps up I am going to put in a tile back splash in the kitchen. If the weather breaks and the sun comes out I am off cruising in the Cobra instead of the Honey Do projects...

And if you manage to finish that list....and the weather is lousy...please feel free to swing by my house....I got a "boat"load of stuff that needs to be done!

Lakesrider · 05-23-2011, 07:47 PM

Ummm....Ummm....Cough, cough....ooooh, I think I might be coming down with the flu or something else terrible and debilitating....Like Mono.......Cough Cough.....Sniffle, sniffle......

Flylady · 05-23-2011, 09:05 PM

OK,
In final count down. Woke up this morning and I could actually imagine the smell of the lake! I fly in on Friday and can't wait. Weather doesn't matter just to be back will be enough.... first stop "dunkin donuts" (they are not in CA) oh yea the seafood taste great rain or shine

eillac@dow · 05-23-2011, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Lakesrider

Ummm....Ummm....Cough, cough....ooooh, I think I might be coming down with the flu or something else terrible and debilitating....Like Mono.......Cough Cough.....Sniffle, sniffle......

Nice try...but I don't believe you for a minute.

Quote from Fly Lady
I can smell the water!
OK,
In final count down. Woke up this morning and I could actually imagine the smell of the lake! I fly in on Friday and can't wait. Weather doesn't matter just to be back will be enough.... first stop "dunkin donuts" (they are not in CA) oh yea the seafood taste great rain or shine

Welcome back Fly Lady!. I think what I like ...are the folks that are a "good distance away". They have such a yearning for the lake...and the fact that it is not close to them must make it a long stretch till they get back. I have a great appreciation for the lake and I know those that are so far away must miss it terribly. Thankfully, I do have the option of heading North for the weekend (every now and then) but to be so far away must be a killer!

Welcome back and enjoy your DD coffee

Flylady · 05-23-2011, 11:19 PM

The stories I can tell about the count downs until May.......after all this time I still get goosebumps when I make the final turn onto my road to the cottage, and shed tears when I have to leave back to CA. I find I marvel at so many simple things when I am there that the locals and many near by have long begun to take for granted.

Rag Top Daze · 05-24-2011, 05:10 AM

I'm one of the lucky ones who gets to live here all year. I absolutely love living where everyone wants to come to vacation. I grew up in a Maine coastal town. I used to spend my winters on the Gulf coast of Florida. Now I live in Moultonborough. To me, living in a resort area is great and I can't wait to see all the summer people come back. It's in my blood I guess. I don't even mind the traffic. I just drop my top (not much this year so far) and go with the flow.

On the subject of the weather, as bad as it it, after watching the news last night, I suddenly realized we here in the northeast should be counting our lucky stars that all we have to deal with is a little rain! We still haven't had the chance to cut our grass even once yet and if we don't get it done soon, we'll have to bale it! The one or 2 days that we could have done it, it was more important to spend with my mother who was in the hospital after having a stroke. The grass will wait! There are more important things than having a well groomed yard.

NH_boater · 05-24-2011, 05:40 AM

While we don't live on the lake, we will here in NH. Our primary house only 75 minutes away from the lake, and our lake house. This makes weekends pretty easy to pull off, which we have been doing.

Only a few more weeks until school is out and we are up here full time for the whole summer.

dpg · 05-24-2011, 05:44 AM

Hate to "rain" on everyones parade but Friday and Saturday right now isn't sounding the greatest. I too have been itching to "get up there." Actually, itching really, really bad...

Lakesrider · 05-24-2011, 07:16 AM

Whatever anyone does don't come through Meredith at usual heavy traffic times. They are doing road/pipe construction at the main intersection near the Lago/Mills.
(You have to love when they plan these projects. I wonder if it is the beginning of the round about project slated for that intersection?)
I got stuck there yesterday for quite some time and there wasn't even much traffic. If they don;t have that wrapped up by Thursday......Yikes is all I can say.

Meredith lady · 05-24-2011, 07:24 AM

The road project will be wrapped up on Thursday from what i have been told. This wasn't a planned "fix"...there was trouble with underground pipes from the town water main to the bank.

Lakesrider · 05-24-2011, 08:48 AM

Hmmm. When I was at the bank back in April, they told me that the pipe was "the wrong size or something" and to get ready for some delays getting to/out the drive in. Glad to hear it will be done Thursday though. They must be under some pressure to get out of the way by then. "Pressure" get it....Pressure Like water pressure...ahhh, never mind....

SIKSUKR · 05-24-2011, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Lakesrider

"Pressure" get it....Pressure Like water pressure...ahhh, never mind....

Yup.I hope the job doesn't run into this weekend or the flow of traffic will freeze.

Rattlesnake Gal · 05-24-2011, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by eillac@dow

Got to work this morning…started thinking of the weekend…and what comes to mind….BUT THE DOG! How is Hunter getting to NH?

Don't you know that Friday is take your dog to work day?!

Looking forward to having my mom, both sons with girlfriends this weekend. Should be fun!

AC2717 · 05-25-2011, 06:53 AM

I can't take it anymore

Two days left of work including today
1 sleep
packing up the car tonight right before bruins game
Begging my mother to bring my daughter to my work so we can leave right from work (wife only works a quarter mile from my work)

beautiful day today
Accuweather on my phone saying 80, 79,79,78 for weather Friday through Monday with only clouds on Saturday, but weather.com saying same temps but chance of Thunderstorms at 40% all weekend
- hoping accuweather is correct

THis intense suspense of taking off is killing me!!!!!

AC2717 · 05-26-2011, 08:12 AM

T minus 6.5 hours till I leave for the lake

oh yEAH

WakeboardMom · 05-27-2011, 03:46 PM

We're on our way! Should be there in time to watch the big game!

NHBUOY · 05-27-2011, 04:46 PM

...Hey WBMom...did I see ur fams woody heading out of town today.?..Happy Memorial Day to you guys...

05-23-2011, 09:29 AM	#1
AC2717 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Maynard, MA & Paugus Bay Posts: 2,522 Thanks: 747 Thanked 344 Times in 257 Posts	Anyone Else? I do not know about anyone else, but daughter, wife and myself cannot wait for Thursday night to get here to officially start the season!!!!! All that is on our minds, which is probably why the day is dragging. My wife last night said, "is it thursday yet?? My Daughter woke up this morning and asked the same thing and said she just wants it to be thursday already, when I had to remind her it was Monday Here we go Thursday, Here we go.. __________________ Capt. of the "No Worries"

05-23-2011, 11:47 AM	#2
Happy Gourmand Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Ruskin FL Posts: 1,025 Thanks: 187 Thanked 322 Times in 179 Posts	Us too! But not till Saturday AM due to some unfortunate family obligations....can't wait!!

05-23-2011, 11:58 AM	#3
NHBUOY Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Loon Mtn. winters...Meredith Neck summers Posts: 398 Thanks: 288 Thanked 94 Times in 60 Posts	...weatherwise...you aren't missing much.....but looks to clear up just in time for you guys......

05-23-2011, 12:08 PM	#5
bresmom82 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Brockton, MA Posts: 12 Thanks: 24 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Love it up North, can't wait either!! We are leaving Friday. Can't wait to head up there and get away. My countdown started last week!!

05-23-2011, 02:19 PM	#10
Newbiesaukee Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Coral Gables, winter; Long Island, summer Posts: 1,349 Thanks: 922 Thanked 569 Times in 295 Posts	We came up for the season last week. Weather is not great....but I wouldn"t want to be anywhere else. __________________ "You're only young once, but you can be immature forever."

05-23-2011, 12:23 PM	#6
eillac@dow Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Dow Island & Weymouth, MA Posts: 365 Thanks: 295 Thanked 94 Times in 48 Posts	Funny….yesterday talking with my husband…I said…Ok…you head straight from work to NH Friday night (he works in Boston and we live South…no sense in heading home). The kids have no school, so I figure they can go up with their aunt or grandmother. This Friday, at my work…we start half day Fridays….so I figure I will just hit the road from work. Good…everything is planned! Got to work this morning…started thinking of the weekend…and what comes to mind….BUT THE DOG! How is Hunter getting to NH? If anyone is looking forward to NH….it is Hunter. He just needs the island to just GO AND RUN! One full weekend of no leashes, no electronic collar….just doing what he wants. Plus he gets to meet up with his Canine friends from last summer! Looks like I will be making the 50 minute drive home to pick up Hunter! It was a long Winter….and this Spring is killing me. Pray for sun! Have fun everyone!

05-23-2011, 01:11 PM	#7
tricia1218 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: MA/Paugus Bay Posts: 155 Thanks: 31 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Hoping to be on the road early afternoon on Friday, pick up neice on the way. Husband, daughter, and dog will already be at the lake, hoping they can get all the hard lifting done before I get there :-) Here is hoping for better weather! So ready the weekend and it is only Monday.

05-23-2011, 01:59 PM	#8
Lakesrider Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,129 Thanks: 380 Thanked 1,016 Times in 345 Posts	Bring your Black Fly juice up too. It stopped raining for a bit yesterday and when I went to mow my foot high lawn, the black flies went on a rampage. I was covered in them every time I would stop to go the other way with the mower.... Can't wait for the mosquitoes with all this water and standing ponds. Yeah it's gonna be a great weekend to sit indoors and play cards!......

05-23-2011, 02:17 PM	#9
Jeanzb1 Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Gilford Posts: 546 Thanks: 614 Thanked 173 Times in 94 Posts	We left Florida (hot, humid and bumper crop of lovebugs) on May 10th and arrived at Lake Winni on May 11th. Gorgeous weather on the 12th......and we have not turned off the heater, nor seen the sun ever since. Rain, rain, and more rain. And in Florida they are in a severe drought and would LOVE some of our rain. Oh well, it's good Scrabble, knitting, Internet, and reading weather.....

05-23-2011, 06:21 PM	#11
Lakesrider Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,129 Thanks: 380 Thanked 1,016 Times in 345 Posts	Well, there is a bit of a positive note to all this. I have been getting a lot of house cleaning done. I got rid of two pick up truck loads of plain old junk. I got two bags of clothes off to Good Will and 7 coats off to the coat drive bin at Burlington Coat outlet in Nashua. Tonight, I tuned up some power tools and sharpened the lawn mower blades. Next up is to do some finish painting left over from my bathroom remodel project of last Fall. Yeah I procrastinated just a bit. And if this keeps up I am going to put in a tile back splash in the kitchen. If the weather breaks and the sun comes out I am off cruising in the Cobra instead of the Honey Do projects...

05-23-2011, 07:47 PM	#13
Lakesrider Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,129 Thanks: 380 Thanked 1,016 Times in 345 Posts	Ummm....Ummm....Cough, cough....ooooh, I think I might be coming down with the flu or something else terrible and debilitating....Like Mono.......Cough Cough.....Sniffle, sniffle......

05-23-2011, 09:05 PM	#14
Flylady Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: So. California & Lakes Region Posts: 256 Thanks: 225 Thanked 106 Times in 61 Posts	I can smell the water! OK, In final count down. Woke up this morning and I could actually imagine the smell of the lake! I fly in on Friday and can't wait. Weather doesn't matter just to be back will be enough.... first stop "dunkin donuts" (they are not in CA) oh yea the seafood taste great rain or shine

05-23-2011, 11:19 PM	#16
Flylady Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: So. California & Lakes Region Posts: 256 Thanks: 225 Thanked 106 Times in 61 Posts	Thanks Eillac The stories I can tell about the count downs until May.......after all this time I still get goosebumps when I make the final turn onto my road to the cottage, and shed tears when I have to leave back to CA. I find I marvel at so many simple things when I am there that the locals and many near by have long begun to take for granted.

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05-24-2011, 05:10 AM	#17
Rag Top Daze Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Moultonborough Posts: 119 Thanks: 11 Thanked 13 Times in 9 Posts	Ready to welcome all of you back! I'm one of the lucky ones who gets to live here all year. I absolutely love living where everyone wants to come to vacation. I grew up in a Maine coastal town. I used to spend my winters on the Gulf coast of Florida. Now I live in Moultonborough. To me, living in a resort area is great and I can't wait to see all the summer people come back. It's in my blood I guess. I don't even mind the traffic. I just drop my top (not much this year so far) and go with the flow. On the subject of the weather, as bad as it it, after watching the news last night, I suddenly realized we here in the northeast should be counting our lucky stars that all we have to deal with is a little rain! We still haven't had the chance to cut our grass even once yet and if we don't get it done soon, we'll have to bale it! The one or 2 days that we could have done it, it was more important to spend with my mother who was in the hospital after having a stroke. The grass will wait! There are more important things than having a well groomed yard. __________________ I live for a rag top day

05-24-2011, 05:40 AM	#18
NH_boater Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 298 Thanks: 14 Thanked 147 Times in 62 Posts	While we don't live on the lake, we will here in NH. Our primary house only 75 minutes away from the lake, and our lake house. This makes weekends pretty easy to pull off, which we have been doing. Only a few more weeks until school is out and we are up here full time for the whole summer.

05-24-2011, 05:44 AM	#19
dpg Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 2,560 Thanks: 149 Thanked 229 Times in 166 Posts	Hate to "rain" on everyones parade but Friday and Saturday right now isn't sounding the greatest. I too have been itching to "get up there." Actually, itching really, really bad...

05-24-2011, 07:16 AM	#20
Lakesrider Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,129 Thanks: 380 Thanked 1,016 Times in 345 Posts	Whatever anyone does don't come through Meredith at usual heavy traffic times. They are doing road/pipe construction at the main intersection near the Lago/Mills. (You have to love when they plan these projects. I wonder if it is the beginning of the round about project slated for that intersection?) I got stuck there yesterday for quite some time and there wasn't even much traffic. If they don;t have that wrapped up by Thursday......Yikes is all I can say.

05-24-2011, 07:24 AM	#21
Meredith lady Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 217 Thanks: 290 Thanked 138 Times in 26 Posts	traffic The road project will be wrapped up on Thursday from what i have been told. This wasn't a planned "fix"...there was trouble with underground pipes from the town water main to the bank.

05-24-2011, 08:48 AM	#22
Lakesrider Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,129 Thanks: 380 Thanked 1,016 Times in 345 Posts	Hmmm. When I was at the bank back in April, they told me that the pipe was "the wrong size or something" and to get ready for some delays getting to/out the drive in. Glad to hear it will be done Thursday though. They must be under some pressure to get out of the way by then. "Pressure" get it....Pressure Like water pressure...ahhh, never mind....

05-25-2011, 06:53 AM	#25
AC2717 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Maynard, MA & Paugus Bay Posts: 2,522 Thanks: 747 Thanked 344 Times in 257 Posts	Omg I can't take it anymore Two days left of work including today 1 sleep packing up the car tonight right before bruins game Begging my mother to bring my daughter to my work so we can leave right from work (wife only works a quarter mile from my work) beautiful day today Accuweather on my phone saying 80, 79,79,78 for weather Friday through Monday with only clouds on Saturday, but weather.com saying same temps but chance of Thunderstorms at 40% all weekend - hoping accuweather is correct THis intense suspense of taking off is killing me!!!!! __________________ Capt. of the "No Worries"

05-26-2011, 08:12 AM	#26
AC2717 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Maynard, MA & Paugus Bay Posts: 2,522 Thanks: 747 Thanked 344 Times in 257 Posts	T minus 6.5 hours till I leave for the lake oh yEAH __________________ Capt. of the "No Worries"

05-27-2011, 03:46 PM	#27
WakeboardMom Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: NH X 2 Posts: 508 Thanks: 595 Thanked 113 Times in 92 Posts	We're on our way! Should be there in time to watch the big game! __________________ MarieM

05-27-2011, 04:46 PM	#28
NHBUOY Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Loon Mtn. winters...Meredith Neck summers Posts: 398 Thanks: 288 Thanked 94 Times in 60 Posts	...Hey WBMom...did I see ur fams woody heading out of town today.?..Happy Memorial Day to you guys...