Have you ever thought about how much is taken for granted? If something does not directly affect our lives how much do we think about it? As we age I think we become more in tuned to how everything around us interrelated but when we are younger we do not put a great deal of thought into it.
We live in Minnesota. We used to live out in the country in a portion of the state that does not have many lakes, that is by Minnesota standards. We had to drive ten miles to get to the closest lake in many areas of the states you would have past dozens of lakes in ten miles. Six years ago we bought a house on the shores of one of the largest lakes in the state. Now that we live in a lake community we realize how much the economy affects the lives of people that make their living from lake related activities. We also have learned the tough and often dangerous jobs that the search and rescue teams face. When we were living out in the country we knew people that were involved in volunteer fire departments as well as emergency medical technicians, but we did not have search and rescue teams, other than the sheriff?s department. Now that we are in the lakes area we have gotten to know several people that volunteer on the search and rescue teams in different parts of the lake. The lake is huge 132,000 acres. It is
