Peg Ostrander
Bev
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38 records, oldest first2012
Jul 8
The hottest Fourth I can remember up here: 96 on the thermometer by the boathou…
…se, and the lake down a good foot on the dock posts. Nobody slept. The children were in the water from breakfast until the bats came out.
David and Julia have set the date: October 6, at Estes Park, outdoors, at 7,500 feet. I said it sounded lovely and R. said, "Bring a coat."
I told Mom about Sogndal on the teleph…
Jul 8
Fourth of July week, cabin.
- Hannah (3 1/2) caught her first fish off the dock on Thursday, a sunfish. Ray held the rod.
- Loons: no chick this year. Per Bev, the pair sat on the island nest in May and the black flies drove them off it.
- Flag cake needs 2 pints of blueberries and 2 of red berries. Write it on the recipe.
For the calendar: Dav…
2016
May 8
Opened May 7. Ice went out April 14 this year, per Bev.
Opener: Ray and Jim, six walleye, and a 26-inch northern.
Found: no mice (!). A woodpecker hole in the boathouse fascia the size of a quarter.
Kangas came Friday about the septic. He will send a price.
Jun 19
Rhubarb jam, with Bev's rhubarb. One batch; do not double it, it will not set.
- 8 cups rhubarb, cut in half-inch pieces (about 2 1/2 lb)
- 4 cups sugar. Mom used 6.
- juice of one lemon, and the zest if I have it
Mix in the big kettle and leave it overnight. Boil hard, stirring, about 20 to 25 minutes, until a spoonful holds its shape on a cold saucer. Skim. Into hot half-pint jars, quarter-in…
Jul 5
The week of the Fourth. Twelve of us. Maeve is four months old and spent the fi…
…reworks asleep on R.'s chest in the green chair. Lucas, nearly three, has learned to say "walleye" and says it to everything that comes out of the water, including Owen.
No loon chicks. A strange male came in May, and the two fought for the better part of a week out past the island, wings going like oars. Bev watche…
2017
Apr 11
Ray says: ice out April 11. Bev called at 4.
Jun 17
Up north as of last night, both of us, with no day on which either has to go ba…
…ck.
Bev came over with rhubarb and stood in the kitchen for an hour telling me everything that has happened on the road since October. The lake was flat at six. The loons have one chick, about a week old, a ball of soot riding between the wings.
Sep 23
Leaving Tuesday for seventeen days.
Gus, to Ellen's on Sunday:
- carprofen, 34 tablets counted out (two a day, with food), plus four spare
- his bed, the ramp, the blue bowl
- 15 lb of his food
- Dr. Aylward's number, and a note saying Ellen may decide anything that needs deciding
House: Marlene has the key and the mail. Furnace set to 60. Water heater…
2019
Feb 16
At the cabin, in February, for the first time in the fifteen years we have owne…
…d it. Bev and Arnie talked us into it at Christmas: the lake association has a potluck on the ice tonight, Earl plowed us out on Thursday, and R. has wanted to try for walleye through the ice ever since Arnie began bragging about it. He is out there with Arnie now, two dots and a sled.
We came up yesterday. The lake…
Apr 28
Ray says: ice out April 28. Bev called.
Jun 16
Birdie's first weekend up north. She fell off the dock on Saturday morning chas…
…ing a dragonfly, went under, came up, and discovered that she can swim, and has had to be carried out of the lake at intervals ever since.
R. has acquired a pontoon boat, secondhand, with a canopy. He says it is for the grandchildren and for my knees. Yesterday evening he took Bev and Arnie and me round the whole la…
Sep 14
The green line on the monitor, except that it was the shoreline of the lake, dr…
…awn from above, and I was following it with a pencil the way you trace a map. Around the point, into the bay, past Bev's. When I got to our dock the line went flat and straight and ran off the edge of the paper.
I woke with my hand closed as if I were holding the pencil. He was breathing. I checked.
Sep 28
Up north. I drove. In fifteen years he has driven every mile of US-51 in both d…
…irections, and today he rode with the seat back and the dog's head on his shoulder and criticized nothing until Tomahawk.
I know to the minute how far we are from Arbor Bluff. Three hours and forty. The emergency room in Woodruff is fourteen. I looked both up before we left and was ashamed of myself, and then looked…
2020
Oct 18
Closed the cabin today after twenty-four weeks, the longest we have ever stayed…
…. I did the inside list alone and slowly.
Bev and Arnie on their dock and we on ours, forty yards apart, with a thermos each, most evenings from June on. Fish fry in boxes from the Thirsty Loon, eaten on the tailgate. Both loon chicks raised and gone.
I read "Hamnet" twice. A boy dies of plague in 1596 and his moth…
Oct 18
Closed today, after 24 weeks. The summer in numbers:
- Days here: 168.
- Loaves from Sigrid: 31.
- Walleye kept: 43 (Ray's count; mine is lower).
- Masks sewn here: 96, on top of the 214 at home.
- Quilts finished: one, and most of another.
- Books read: 37.
- Loon chicks: two hatched, two raised, both gone south by the first week of October.
- People inside the cabin o…
2023
May 7
Opened May 5 and 6. Ice went out May 2, per Bev; the water at the dock was 41 d…
…egrees.
Two shingles of bark off the big birch by the steps; Ray is watching it.
Oct 6
Break-ins on the lake, the first week of October. Three cabins: the Trost place…
…next door to the west, and two on the north shore. A window forced at each. Taken: a chain saw, two outboard motors, liquor, a television. Nothing of ours was touched.
Deputy Sara Kivi came yesterday and walked round with Ray:
1. Cameras. Even cheap ones.
2. A light on a timer inside, and one outside on a sensor.
3.…
Oct 7
For Marianne Trost: who to call up here if something is wrong at her place. Wri…
…tten out at her kitchen table from memory.
- Bev and Arnie Gustafson: 715-555-0107. Call Bev first for anything.
- Earl Koskinen: 715-555-0114. Evenings, after 6. He does not read texts.
- Our cabin: 715-555-0126. Our house in Madison: 608-555-0103.
- Darrell Maki, for a car: 715-555-0111.
- The clinic in Woodruff (…
Oct 8
Three cabins on the lake were broken into last week, between Sunday and Wednesd…
…ay: the Trost place and two on the north shore. A window forced at each, and what was taken was what could be carried: a chain saw, two outboards off their brackets, liquor, a television. Ours was not touched. Bev thinks it was because her kitchen light was on.
A deputy named Kivi came round on Thursday. Her advice…
Oct 22
Closed the cabin today. The cameras are up.
Arnie has put a steel gate across the end of their drive, with a keypad on a post, because of the break-ins. It closes itself. Bev gave me the code:
1949, then the pound key.
It is the year Arnie was born.
The gate opens by itself from the inside when a car comes up to it. On foot there is a gap beside the post.
2024
Mar 15
Ray says: ice out on Skein Lake yesterday, March 14. Earliest in the log, by ni…
…ne days.
ICE-OUT, SKEIN LAKE. Date the lake is open from our dock to the island.
2004 - April 21 (from Gordon Sundquist's calendar, the year we bought)
2005 - April 16
2006 - April 12
2007 - April 22
2008 - May 1
2009 - April 24
2010 - April 3
2011 - April 27
2012 - March 23
2013 - May 12 (latest)
2014 - May 8
2015…
Jun 29
SKEIN LAKE ASSOCIATION - annual meeting, Saturday, June 29, 2024, 10:00, town h…
…all. Notes taken by me at Ginger Stauber's request; Jack Niemi is away. To be given to Jack.
Present: 44 households of 53 members. Ginger in the chair.
1. Last year's minutes: approved as mailed.
2. Treasurer (Ray): balance on June 28, $7,118.40. Dues are $85; 50 households have paid for 2024, three have not and w…
Oct 19
CLOSING THE CABIN. Per Ray, dictated on the porch, me typing. In this order.
1. Boats out first. Pike Bay meets us at the landing. Call a week ahead.
2. Dock: Earl and his boy roll it out the last week of October. Chock the wheels. Bench comes off, goes in the boathouse.
3. Water. Breaker 14 OFF (well pump), panel in the hall closet. Open every tap. Drain valve is in the pump house, red handle…
2025
May 4
Opened May 3. Ice out April 24, per Bev. Opener: Ray and Jim, five walleye.
The shed is empty for Nate's crew on the 12th. Where things have gone:
- The mower and the gas cans: the lean-to on the back of the pump house.
- Rakes, shovels, the wheelbarrow: the boathouse, left wall.
- Paint, 31 cans: to the county's clean sweep day in Rhinelander on the 17th. Ray kept two.
- Canoe paddles, the c…
Jun 29
Hannah's first week. She is up at six, before either of us, and out on the dock…
…with a sketchbook. I find her there when I bring my coffee down, and we do not talk, which suits us both. She leaves for the gallery at 9:20 and is back at 5:40 smelling of mat board and glue.
She does not eat fish. She does not eat anything that had a face, she says, which in this house in July removes most of the…
Jul 16
Back last night from two days in Madison for R.'s eyes. No harm from the sugar;…
…cataracts beginning in both, not ready. He asked Dr. Okonjo for a date, and she said two or three years.
We left Hannah in charge of the cabin and the dog. Sixteen, alone on a lake. I telephoned twice the first evening, and R. told me to stop. Bev looked in, she says, "without looking in." We came back to find the p…
Jul 19
Arnie Gustafson had a stroke this morning.
Bev telephoned at twenty to seven. I knew from the first syllable; she did not say hello. He had come to the table for his coffee and could not lift the cup. His left hand lay on the cloth, she said, as if it belonged to someone else, and the left side of his face had come loose.
R. was across the yards before I had…
Jul 20
Arnie Gustafson had a stroke yesterday morning, July 19. For anyone who asks:
- He was last himself at 6:10, per Bev. She telephoned us at 6:40. The ambulance came from Woodruff in nineteen minutes; from there he went to Wausau by helicopter.
- Hannah was there before I was and did the right things in the right order.
- He had the clot medicine inside the time allowed.
- As of last night: he ca…
Jul 23
Arnie has been moved from the hospital to the rehabilitation wing, still in Wau…
…sau. He will be there three weeks at the least. He can stand with a frame and two people. The speech is all there. He told R. on Monday that the food is institutional and that the fish in it has never seen a lake.
R. does not talk about it. He is quieter than after Don, if that is possible. Arnie is four years older…
Aug 10
Hannah went home today. Ellen and Mark drove up yesterday, stayed the night, an…
…d took her and seven canvases back in a car that smelled of turpentine before it reached the road. R. carried her bag to the car, shook hands with her, and then thought better of it. The dog keeps going out to the bunkhouse and coming back.
Seven weeks. She sold two small paintings of her own off the gallery wall to…
Oct 5
Closed the cabin two weeks early, with the leaves barely turned, because we fly…
…to Lisbon on Thursday. It felt wrong to drain the lines in a warm wind. The young loon was still on the bay this morning, alone, in gray.
Bev and Arnie will be one of three lights on the road this winter, and for the first time I asked whether they would be all right. Bev said their daughter has been at them to move…
2026
Apr 19
Ray says: ice out April 19. Bev called at 3.
2025 - April 24
2026 - April 19
Jun 28
The association met yesterday: forty-one members present, the dues unchanged, a…
…nd the treasurer's report accepted without a question for the seventh year, which the treasurer regards as either a compliment or a sign that nobody listens.
Two loon chicks, hatched last week. Jack Niemi has put the floating signs out.
Arnie walked over this morning by himself, with the cane, across both yards, to…
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| First name | Beverly |
|---|---|
| Last name | Gustafson |
| Nickname | Bev |
| Gender | Female |
| Comments | Next cabin east of ours. Has our key. |
Phones
- number: '7155550107' variant: Mobile
Addresses
- variant: Home street_address_1: 8831 Skein Lake Road city: Minocqua state: Wisconsin postal_code: '54548'
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q035 What did Hannah do the summer she lived with us?