This Saturday, if Mom is still feeling well enough to go, we are leaving for the Woodruff/Minocqua area. Technically speaking, we are headed for Boulder Junction to stay on Middle Gresham Lake, but Woodruff and Minocqua are bigger cities in the cluster of them there.

In the moments directly after typing the first sentence, I said to myself, "Self, most of these people won't even recognize Woodruff or Minocqua, so why don't you just say Boulder Junction and be done with it?" And so, I did. We are renting two cabins, two fully modernized cabins. My parents and brother will stay in one, my aunts and my husband (and myself) in the other.

Brenda is using the week Up North to quit smoking. Miles will be without his internet IV. I can't go to the gym. I give Debbie two, maybe three days before she locks our snotty butts out of the cabin.