After a seven year search for our perfect place on Lake Sawyer, Black Diamond, WA, this is the journal of building our lakeside home. As time permits I'll add what's going on at Mill Pond Cottage.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
our dream property circa 1920
The family story goes like this: When my father Andrew Benedetti was a teenager, he worked with his father, my grandpa, Fred Benedetti building boats for the loggers working in the mill pond at Lake Sawyer. As pay day came around, the loggers were a little short on cash so they offered my grandpa a portion of the lake in trade. My grandpa said, "I don't want no part of this blankety-blank swamp." And so, nearly 100 years later, my husband Jay and I have finally acquired the property for our new home, right where grandpa left it.
