A beautiful lake day

When mid-October gives you full sun and 70 degree days you have to take advantage and head to the lake.  Since it was too cold to swim we invested in a remote control boat for Opa.  There were a few rescue missions, once because we (or should I say "I") got it into the grass on the side and the second time because it ran out of batteries in the middle of the lake.  Luckily the canoe was available for a quick boat pick up. Of course the gnomes were in full force so there were chocolate coins from the Hippie gnome and a visit to the secret garden where the completed gnome see-saw was put out.



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