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winnitru · 04-25-2007, 07:57 PM

What a delightful thread. I have so enjoyed meeting all of you! I've never posted, but everyday I "visit" my beloved NH!
My name comes from the fact that my heart truly belongs to Lake Winnipesaukee. If I could figure out how to post an avatar, it would be the lakeside elevation of our home. It is afterall, my screen saver and my letterhead!
I was raised in CT and as a child my parents rented a place on Dan Hole Pond once or twice. I moved to Florida in the eighth grade and NE promptly fell off the radar. Fast forward 25 years... in 2001 I came to visit a Florida girlfriend at her Lake Winnipesaukee summer home. Well that's all she wrote... I reunited with my tribe! I was instantly and hopelessly in love. And miraclulously a home was available for sale 3 doors away from my girlfriend. The only fly in the ointment was my convincing my husband back in Florida that he needed to buy a 100 year old run down fishing camp in a state he'd never been to! Well it must have been meant to be, because he flew up ( I'm certain it was just to placate me) and he too fell in love with NH, Lake Winnipesaukee and a weary, ramshackle, fishing camp on Wingate Cove.
We bought the house on 9-10-01 and flew home from Logan the day before our collective innocence was lost. After we finally found a contractor that didn't suggest we raze the place, we spent the winter, spring and summer of 2002 in renovations. 2007 will be my 7th summer on Winnipesaukee. My husband, two teenage sons and I leave FL the day after school gets out and stay until 3 days before school starts. We drive 28 hours in 2 days just to get to NH as quickly as possible, and to stay as long as we can.I feel blessed beyond description to be able to spend our summers on the lake. My children are afforded a genuine small town experience, and my husband is able to escape the pressures of running his business.We come up one weekend in the fall and for Thanksgiving. I spend the rest of the time pining away for paradise!
My husband and I will be up in 29 days for 6 days to open the house, and in 62 months my youngest will graduate high school and I will be able to call NH home! (But who's keeping track!)

04-25-2007, 07:57 PM	#60
winnitru Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: SW FL and Wingate Cove Posts: 53 Thanks: 59 Thanked 14 Times in 10 Posts	What a delightful thread. I have so enjoyed meeting all of you! I've never posted, but everyday I "visit" my beloved NH! My name comes from the fact that my heart truly belongs to Lake Winnipesaukee. If I could figure out how to post an avatar, it would be the lakeside elevation of our home. It is afterall, my screen saver and my letterhead! I was raised in CT and as a child my parents rented a place on Dan Hole Pond once or twice. I moved to Florida in the eighth grade and NE promptly fell off the radar. Fast forward 25 years... in 2001 I came to visit a Florida girlfriend at her Lake Winnipesaukee summer home. Well that's all she wrote... I reunited with my tribe! I was instantly and hopelessly in love. And miraclulously a home was available for sale 3 doors away from my girlfriend. The only fly in the ointment was my convincing my husband back in Florida that he needed to buy a 100 year old run down fishing camp in a state he'd never been to! Well it must have been meant to be, because he flew up ( I'm certain it was just to placate me) and he too fell in love with NH, Lake Winnipesaukee and a weary, ramshackle, fishing camp on Wingate Cove. We bought the house on 9-10-01 and flew home from Logan the day before our collective innocence was lost. After we finally found a contractor that didn't suggest we raze the place, we spent the winter, spring and summer of 2002 in renovations. 2007 will be my 7th summer on Winnipesaukee. My husband, two teenage sons and I leave FL the day after school gets out and stay until 3 days before school starts. We drive 28 hours in 2 days just to get to NH as quickly as possible, and to stay as long as we can.I feel blessed beyond description to be able to spend our summers on the lake. My children are afforded a genuine small town experience, and my husband is able to escape the pressures of running his business.We come up one weekend in the fall and for Thanksgiving. I spend the rest of the time pining away for paradise! My husband and I will be up in 29 days for 6 days to open the house, and in 62 months my youngest will graduate high school and I will be able to call NH home! (But who's keeping track!)