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COLD SPRING To have a cabin on the lake that would require minimal main-tenance, but still the pleasant view of Minnesotas great outdoors, was a dream for Jackie Spoden-Bolz. Last summer, the Sauk Centre womans dream be-came a reality as she and her husband, Mike Bolz, built an 820-square-foot cabin on the shore of Knaus Lake in Cold Spring. I wanted a place that I could come and visit without worrying about the up-keep, Spoden-Bolz said. Two years ago, Spoden-Bolzs aunt, Joann, who orig-inally owned the property for 27 years, was looking to get it off her hands. After con-tracting polio at a young age, it was becoming difficult to enjoy the lake without assis-tance. For Joann, it was particu-larly important that the prop-erty stay within the family. We immediately ac-quired the land and trailer that sat on it, Spoden-Bolz said. Soon after, we started

RICHMOND The events from the afternoon of Dec. 5, 2014, are still unclear for Eric Massmann. I dont remember a thing, Eric said. That afternoon, Eric sustained a fractured skull on the left side of his head and bled on two areas of his brain while cutting down trees for firewood. Massmann, his parents, Duane and Ruth, and his fiance, Emily Mergen, milk 100 cows in a double-8 parallel parlor on their farm near Richmond. On Dec. 5, Eric and Duane were busy cutting firewood for the winter. Duane was in the skidloader while Eric was running the chainsaw to cut down a 70-foot-tall, 24-inch-diameter ash tree. Eric had already cut 4 inches from the center on one side of the tree and was starting to cut in on the other side of the tree. He had gotten 3 inches from the center of the tree, when it split in half 15 feet above him, kicking the tree, along with Eric and his chainsaw, 15 feet away. It just popped. It happened so fast, Duane said. I got out of the skidloader and called for Eric to see where he was. He didnt answer. All I heard was the chainsaw idling. Duane followed the sound of the chainsaw and found Eric face down with his head on the chainsaw with a large portion of the tree on top of his right arm and shoulder. I immediately shut the chainsaw off so it wouldnt start running, Duane said. I noticed his arm was stuck and knew I had to get the tree off of him. Taking action right away, Duane moved the chainsaw out from under Erics head and began cutting 4 feet away on each side to roll the tree off of his arm. After I got the tree off of him, he was moaning but not responsive, Duane said. I got him kneeling up, and I saw

Lake life on a budgetSpoden-Bolz builds dream cabin

LAKE CABINcontinued on page 5

PHOTOS BY JENN JANAKJackie Spoden-Bolz stands near her 820-square-foot cabin, which is located on Knaus Lake in Cold Spring.

A living miracle

Massmann makes full recovery after head injury

By MISSY MUSSMANStaff Writer

PHOTO BY MISSY MUSSMANEric Massmann is back working full time on his familys dairy farm after sustaining injuries cutting down trees. Massmann and his family milk 100 cows near Richmond.

MASSMANNcontinued on page 5

PHOTO BY JENN JANAKJackie Spoden-Bolzs 820-square-foot cabin has one bedroom, one bathroom and a kitchen-living room area.

tearing everything down. With the help of her three sons and brother, Tony, Spoden-Bolz was able to de-molish the trailer and begin clearing the way for her per-fect getaway. I rented a dumpster and just began tossing things. What we didnt throw away, we recycled and that helped pay for the cost of the dump-ster, Spoden-Bolz said. They also revitalized the landscape along the shore-line. Two years ago we plant-ed native plants along the shore, which are finally com-ing up now, Spoden-Bolz said. During this time, Spoden-

Bolz began researching floor plans for the ideal cabin. Af-ter many hours online and paging through publications, Spoden-Bolz found exact-ly what she had in mind a one-bedroom, one-bath cabin with a small area that would serve as the kitchen and liv-ing room. Once I saw that design, I knew that was what I want-ed, Spoden-Bolz said. Due to building code reg-ulations for Wakefield Town-ship, Spoden-Bolzs cabin could not be any smaller than 820 square feet, which also included the porch.


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first. Wed get home from school about 3:30 in the afternoon, go out and pick a load before supper, and again after milking. On Saturdays and after school was out for the summer, wed put in much longer days. We had a large enough family to have a decent crew of two or three on each side of the wagon sometimes more if our cousins got into the action. We took turns driving the tractor. We had an old two-wheel trailer that was quite close to the ground, which helped when we carried our armloads of rocks to the wagons. Throwing rocks onto the wagon was strongly discouraged, and luck-ily I dont recall anyone ever getting hurt, except for occasionally getting a finger smashed between rocks. When we came to an exceptionally big rock, Id always try to get to it first in hopes of being able to lift it. After all, it was a matter of pride to carry a rock to the wagon that weighed half as much as you did! Oftentimes, someone bigger than me would come over and order me to get out of the way so they could do it. Rocks that were too big were left behind, to be dug up with the loader tractor later. Unloading the wagon took a little while and was a nice break from picking. There was a tiny lake at one end of the farm, which was my favorite place to unload. Wed skip rocks on the water if we found the right ones, but then it was time to go again. As the days went on, everyone just wanted to be done. It was no longer fun, and I no longer ran to get to that big rock. Towards the very end of the rock-picking season, I always looked forward to the treat at the end of the tunnel a trip to the Dairy Queen. When we were done, we all loaded up in the car and went to town. We each got an ice cream cone, and truly appreciated it. Looking back, picking rocks was one of the best things we could have done. We were out in the sun-shine and fresh air. We experienced nature. Things like a killdeer protecting her young. I was always amazed at the ferociousness and courage of those tiny birds in the face of gigantic humans and trac-tors. Every once in a while youd find a treasure. My dad once found a meteorite, and my own kids came across a well-used Native American stone hammer,

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the hospital with Eric. Duane came in every day, but also went home to get chores done on the farm. Thankfully, Duane didnt have to do it alone. His other son, Adam, and Jennifer and her husband, Erik, took time off of work to help on the farm and visit Eric in the hospital. The Massmanns

also had many neighbors, friends and family step in to provide meals and even help with feeding and milking the cows. We are so grateful for all the prayers and help they all gave us, Ruth said. It meant a lot. After three weeks in the hospital, Eric was released the day after Christ-mas. It was a relief to go home, Eric said. But being at home did have its lim-itations at the beginning. I wasnt able to lift anything over

15 pounds, I couldnt drive and for the first two weeks, someone had to be with me at all times, Eric said. It was frustrating. I knew I had to be careful, but I was going stir crazy. With Eric back home, Mergen took the journal she kept while he was in the hospital and the photos from the acci-dent and his recovery and made it into a book. I wanted him to have something to look back on, Mergen said. Ruth even appreciates the book. Its a really nice book, she said. A month after he was released, Eric was out helping in the barn again. It felt good to be back out and helping with milking occasionally, he said. Now, almost five months after his accident, Eric is back to working full-time on the farm. I still feel the plate a little bit, oth-erwise I feel 100 percent now, Eric said. Im back to normal. Seeing her son back in the barn has been a relief for Ruth. Hes so glad to be back helping like he used to, she said. It feels like a miracle. Even with a full recovery, Eric re-

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alizes how lucky he was. Im so thankful for where Im at today, Eric said. It was pure luck. It could have been a lot worse than it was.

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bit. But as she sat on the couch, she could hear the metal dish she set out for the cats the night before mov-ing on the deck. At first I thought it was my imagination, Sharon said. But when I heard it again, I figured it was probably a raccoon since weve had a lot of those around late-ly. Hoping to chase off the rac-coon, Sharon went to turn on the outside light, and saw a 6.5-foot black bear standing there in-stead. I was frozen for a minute, I sat there and thought, what do I do, she said. It was a little too close for comfort for me. Surprisingly, the bear continued to eat from the bird feeder on the deck with his paws on top of it, his nose over the top and his tongue pulling mouthfuls of the sunflower seeds and nuts from the bird feeder. I was shocked he didnt do any-thing when I turned the light on, Sharon said. I just left him alone as he sat there and kept eating. After a few minutes of watching the bear and keeping her dogs calm, Sharon decided to go wake up Jim. I didnt tell him it was a bear, but I told him he had to come and see this, Sharon said. When Jim looked out the window to see the black bear, he was equally as sur-prised as Sharon was. I thought, oh my goodness that is one big bear. He was a wow thats for sure, he said. I hunted bear for 40 years and that was by far the biggest one Ive ever seen. But what also surprised Jim was how close the bear stayed after Sharon turned the light on. This one was exceptionally bold. Normally they are afraid of you, Jim said. But he wasnt aggressive. We werent even six feet from him and he just went about his business. He couldnt have cared less. After carefully capturing a few photos of the bear, Jim opened the door enough to try and shoo the bear away.

I hollered and clapped at him, and he just got up slowly and walked down the steps, Jim said. He was so big that when he was walking down the steps, his butt just barely fit between the railings on both sides of the steps. Although the Fearings were able to get the black bear to leave that morning, he reappeared for three nights in a row after that. We were at a ball game the other night and we didnt get back until 10 p.m. When we pulled up, there he was again, Jim said. He even broke our bird feeder. Jim knows the bear keeps coming back for food. Theyve just come out of hiber-nation, so they are hungry this time of year, he said. They have the best nose of any animal. They can smell food from miles away. Knowing that, the Fearings have re-moved the food availability. Hell go away once he realizes there is no food for him here any more, Jim said. But, the Fearings alerted their neigh-bors about the bear and told them to lock their garages up at night and make sure to keep food, like dog and cat food, tucked away, too. The best thing you can do is leave them alone and keep the food tucked away, Jim said. Looking back on their experience, it is one that will stay with the Fearings for a while. Its not something you expect to happen, Sharon said. Its something I wont soon forget.

An unexpected visitorFearings encounter black bear at home

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PHOTO MISSY MUSSMANJim and Sharon Fearing encountered a black bear on their porch during the early morning hours of May 3 near Little Sauk.

A 6.5-foot black bear eats seeds out of a bird feeder during the earling morning hours of May 3 at Jim and Sharon Fearings home near Little Sauk.


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PAYNESVILLE Wally and Darlene Thyen of Paynesville have spent 52 years on Lake Koronis. During that time, the lake has been central to their lives, especially with the role it played in raising their two children, Mike and Cherie. Mike would get home from school and he would run into his bedroom, change, grab the key and be in the boat in a minute and a half, tops, said Darlene, pointing to the spot on the counter near the door where the keys were always kept. When the kids were growing up, young people were always gathering there, many of them from sur-rounding towns. They water skied, went tubing and swam. If the sun was shining, they were in the water. If it rained, they played Monopoly, shot pool, and even cooked and baked, said Darlene. Along with the kids, adults, too, gathered at the Thyens. A pastime they often enjoyed as a larger group was tying any number of boats together into a flotilla, as they called it, and floating around the lake. Boating could also offer challenges. A favorite photo of the Thyens is from circa 1976-77, and shows Mike and his friends, in their high school years, ac-complishing a water skiing pyramid. It took them quite a while. They could never get it. As they got bigger, it took two to three boats (start-ing out) to pull them, said Wally. The kids from the outside boats would pull alongside and feed on to the middle ones. Then theyd kick off their skis and start climbing. Eventually, they accomplished their pyra-mid. Swimming was a family affair, with Darlenes fa-vorite place to swim being the middle of the lake, pre-ferring not to touch the bottom. Many times that is where I had my lunch, said Wally. He put in long hours as owner of a grocery store in Paynesville, Wallys G & T Foods. There werent many advantages to owning the store, but I abused a few of them, taking a long lunch hour. Darlene would have lunch ready and theyd head out on the lake to enjoy it. Winter life on the lake was important, too. Id take the walk-behind snow blower and make a hockey arena-sized skating rink. Wed put lights in the trees for night-time skating. Id flood the rink to make it smooth. It was a lot of work but it was fun work, said Wally. Some years, when there was no snow, theyd just skate all over. Snow and ice also played a part in their first house on the lake. It started as a cabin which was towed across the frozen lake during the winter. Through the

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PHOTO BY DIANE LEUKAMWally and Darlene Thyen have enjoyed life for the past 52 years on Lake Koronis near Paynes-ville.

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What are some of the improvements youve made to your lake home? Explain. In 1993, when we sold the Hardware Hank store in Mel-rose, we completely gutted the inside of the house. We re-plumbed, re-wired and re-insulated everything. We changed part of the floor plan to add an extra bathroom and changed the third bed-room into a formal dining room for our antique table, chairs and buffet that are over 100 years old. We also found an old light fixture to use the globes from Johns mom s house in Minneapo-lis when they remodeled in 1961 to place in our dining room. Then, we added the third bedroom above the garage, doing all the work ourselves. We put in all new windows, plus a 12-foot patio window including the door facing the lake. We

had help from our friend, Howard Carstens from Carstens Industries and some of his employees, to install the bow window in the living room, picture window in the formal dining room and patio window and door. Our family helped us install the dormer window in our bedroom above the garage. Our neighbors, the Wanders, helped us install the car siding ceiling throughout the house. We had LeClarie Electric install electric heat in the floor throughout the house. JCT Construction installed the kitchen and bathroom cabinets plus all the closets. We added air conditioning installed by Phil Osendorf. We re-varnished and re-used a lot of the old pine car siding and Marie did all the varnishing and staining of the windows, doors and woodwork. John installed the tile in the bathrooms and entryways. All this was done in nine months while we were living here. In 1995, we put in a 21- by 24-foot deck on the backside of the house. We also installed a 16- by 30-foot patio using pavers on the lakeside of the house. Depending on the weather, its usually nice on one of the sides. We also landscaped the shoreline with rocks to save from erosion and planted shrubs along the roadside. Plus, we put in an underground sprinkling system and new sod. In 2010, we replaced our sewer to a mound system across the road, so we couldnt have any strawberry or raspberry patches and no more garden spot. We call it our elephant graveyard.

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How long have you lived on the lake? We moved here on Aug. 15, 1988.Tell us about your lake home: Our yard is a small 50-foot-wide by 375-feet-deep lot with a 1,000-square-foot house. We didnt want a big house when we were ready to retire. We have a shed across the road where John does wood-working. He makes things for the kids, grandkids and craft shows. Crosses and jewelry boxes are his favorite. He also makes fold down tables for campers and computer desks.What are some little moments that occur at your lake home that you treasure? One day, just before the lake froze over, we saw 13 bald eagles catching fish from an area, which started to freeze over. We watched them dive to catch fish and they would sometimes drop them be-cause they were too big and dove again until they could fly away with their catch. We have a loon nest not too far away from our house so we can watch them when they are on the nest laying their eggs. When they hatch, its great to see the mom and dad feeding the babies. Once they start swimming, the mom and dad are very protective of them. They catch minnows and feed them. One year in the fall, a goose couldnt fly south, so the neighbor and Marie fed the goose because they felt sorry for it. Boy what a mess the goose left on the yard. One day, Marie decid-ed it was enough and called the game warden. He came out and walked up to the goose and, lo and behold, it flew away. The following day, John called the game warden because the goose came back and told him we have a goose that cannot fly not knowing that he was out the day before. He had to laugh and asked John if we do not communicate because he was there and the goose could fly.

What is the best experience youve had living on the lake? Living on the lake, John can go fishing anytime he wants and Marie likes to kayak early in the morn-ing when the sun rises and the lake is calm, with the loons and ducks swimming and the bald eagles flying around. The sunrise and moonrise are absolutely beau-tiful shining across the lake because we face northeast. When the grandkids were smaller, they would come at least three to four times a week to swim and fish off the dock. It is also great to watch them go tubing and kayaking. Tell us about some of the biggest events you have at your lake home? Having family gatherings gives many of our relatives and us great memories with water fighting, fishing, boating, skiing, paddle boating, kayaking and camp fires mak-

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How long have you lived on the lake? Eight years. We are both originally from small towns in Wisconsin, then Brooklyn Park. We had been coming up here for 40 years. Tell us about your lake home. This has always been our dream, to have our own home on the lake. We have two, one-acre lots, with a pole barn on the one across the road. And now we have a garden. One day, Rob was out fishing with his brother (from Virginia) when they spotted this home. Rita and her sister-in-law went out and found this place right away. We fell in love with it.What are some of the little moments that occur at your lake home that you treasure? The birds. We have ev-ery kind of bird imaginable. We start every day out making a pot of coffee, playing hand and foot (a card game) and watching the birds. There are very few days we miss. We also like watch-ing the people where they go to fish. Gardening with our neighbor, a widower who shares his garden space with us. We cant tell you how much we love it here. The people here are so friendly, and one of the best things is a traffic jam is five cars.

What is the best experience youve had living on the lake? It doesnt happen enough, but we have three daughters and eight grandkids, and we love to have them visit. Ron takes the kids fishing, and Rita takes the girls out to places like Carlos Creek Winery. The girls have coffee on the deck early in the mornings. When Rita has a girls weekend, Rob has to leave. Once he even stayed at a hotel after their house in Brooklyn Park sold and kept himself entertained by golfing with his buddies.

Tell us about some of the biggest events you have at your lake home? We dont have any big events. Again, when the kids come home is big.What are some of the improvements youve made to your lake home? Explain. We put in new kitchen cabinetry, with one full cabinet for spices. The cabinet maker didnt think wed fill it, but ended up adding two more shelves. We added a pantry, ceramic flooring and carpeting, and painted most of the house. We also finished off the laundry room with an area for quilting for Rita, who has sewn over 200 quilts since moving here. We finished the basement, painted it Green Bay Packers colors and made a pool room out of it. A large leather couch pulls out to a king-size bed for guests. Also in the basement, we turned the room where the former owner raised his plants (he was a master gardener), into a library/craft room. Outside, we havent done much, but have plans for a larger, maintenance-free deck, stone on the front of the house and a new front porch with a place to gather.

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What is the best experience youve had living on the lake? Jason: The lake is full of good experiences so its hard to narrow it down to one. Fourth of July really stands out as a great experience. Each summer we have friends over for the 4th of July holiday. Our house and yard are filled with friends and kids! It seems like the perfect summer gathering...yard games, food, music, water sports, fishing, and of course a great fireworks show. Sauk Lake has one of the best fireworks shows in the area. Minnow: We appreciate a new, best experience everyday which is the sunset that God paints us each night! Tell us about some of the biggest events you have at your lake home? Jason: Two big events correlate with the changing of the seasons. The lake freezing is always a big event. We can now ice fish, make a skating rink and snowmobile. Another big event is the ice coming off the lake. We can now get ready for the summer season! Minnow: Putting the dock, boat lift, water slide and tire swing out in the water is always a big deal its the

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