Spring 2020: The Weirdest One Ever
I have sat down to write to you a dozen times in the last few weeks, but it always ends the same. A fragmented idea, a few sentences, and then an unfinished word doc crowding up my desktop. However, that [...]
The Five Minute Update from Brookside
Wondering what has kept us so busy over the last few months?
The Monarch Butterfly Nursery at Brookside
What started with one monarch caterpillar named “Bear” and a repurposed flower vase turned into a nature-loving, science-class inspiring, eco-friendly operation of hatching monarch caterpillars into monarch butterflies and letting them go into the nature that we love. We [...]
We Went on a Family Vacation: All You Got Was Kitchen Shears
The Wallenberg and Keller families are right in the middle of developing our family vacation traditions. Really, we’re our own target market….except for that whole NO free time in the summer. So, what do you do when summer vacations are [...]
Birthday Sunsets
My word for year #34: Create
The Summer Vacation You Have Been Looking For: A “Mom and Pop” Resort
Have you ever heard of a “Mom and Pop resort”? Well, that is one of our favorite terms to throw around in the resorting biz. It means that – literally - Mom and Pop are the ones who are running [...]
A Summer in the Life of a Brookside Lodge Lady….
After 4 years of cones, malts, and sundaes, this Lodge Lady is taking a hiatus from her spot behind the snack bar. And as summer rolls around and I think about all of my summers at this special spot up [...]
The Biker’s Guide to Brookside
With two brand-new bike riders at our house – we are spending a lot of time making bike-riding plans for the summer. And that got me thinking about all of those bike racks I see pulling into Brookside every Saturday [...]
The Beginning of the Brookside Blog…
Starting to write a blog feels kind of like the picture: riding a bike in rubber boots and a dress through the spring mud puddles. Aka: slow and messy! So, for this first blog post we are going to throw [...]