About 20 years ago, I met my wife online. I don’t think I was looking for someone, definitely not on the internet, and it was way before meeting people online was cool. Anyway, I met my wife online, sight unseen, but we hit it off. I lived in Chicago, and she lived in upper Minnesota. I had no experience with people from Minnesota, but my mind had conjured up some strange caveman/cavewomen stuff. We talked on the phone for a while, usually, while she was at work, and she would open/close a door that sounded like it was a screen door from the 1900s. My future wife started asking me to come to visit her, but I had no interest in traveling across the country (okay, two states over) to see cavewomen. After all, I like my women with teeth, which was literally my thought at the time. I dodged the ‘come visit’ bullet as long as I could, she emailed me her photo, and I was on the next train to the north woods.
What does my story have to do with the Lagoon A Beach Rendering, you ask? Well, I drove up to upper Minnesota, expecting to see log cabins everywhere, lots of old pickups, and gruff people. What I have come to learn is, every place pretty much looks the same. No log cabins, people seemed friendly and were well groomed (for the most part), and if I hadn’t know where I was, I would have to guess the suburbs of Chicago. I was kind of disappointed to tell you the truth. I wanted meat over a fire, and I got Dairy Queen! One thing I did see once in a while was old white houses with green trim. These houses look like old cabins on the lakes. There isn’t a lot left, but they are around, and I always liked them. They were more prevalent 20 years ago, so the Lagoon A Beach Rendering brought me back to when I first started courting my wife.
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