At Live, Love, Laugh, Hope, the blogmistress spent 24 hours visiting with her mother, sister and nieces at the Pend Oreille Shores Resort/Hope. "We had a great time, walking the docks, watching a muskrat weave in and out of the dock slips trying to hide from us," she writes. She also took some swell photos, like the one above and here.

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