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My husband will tell you I have a love affair with Craigslist. I love a good deal. We bought our wobbly first pier from Craigslist. Our second large purchase was a humungous water trampoline. My intent was pure. A platform for my 3 kids to do tricks and jump off of....

Buying a dock is an adventure. There are so many things to think about. What exactly are we going to do on this dock? Cannonball contests for sure! I have one son who loves to fish, the other two kids love to boat and tube. It has to be safe (no wobble) and...

It’s almost that season on Lake Winnebago that lakefront homeowners aren’t crazy about. Lake Fly Season! Harmless insects that hatch right around Mother’s Day. They have no stingers, no mouths and they really are not harmful, just annoying. I’ve spent many hours on...

One of our disastrous first purchases was a used pier. We found it on Craigslist for $600. Seemed like a bargain. It was old, but it would give us a place to fish from. I wanted terribly to introduce my kids to the previously mentioned cannonballing and fishing…. We...

We bought our lake house 10 years ago. I had grown up on a tiny lake in central Wisconsin called Lake Burnita. My husband is from Chicago and spent his summers and weekends on Lake Shangri-La in southern Wisconsin. We both had lake life in common and set out to find...