Nestled in the middle of a secluded woods not far from Lake City, the Roberts Home sits on a bend in the Mosquito creek.  It's located on their 40 acres which also holds the rows of Christmas trees that were once the Roberts Tree Farm.  Though the tree farm operation has been passed on to nephew C.V. Hunt, the land still looks pretty much as it has for the past 50 years. All forms of wildlife can be seen daily.  From deer, to raccoons and turkeys, there always seems to be something to watch. The back deck is adorned with a peculiar looking electric fence.  Last spring a black bear decided that sunflower seeds  were a good dietary supplement, and started dining nightly at the bird feeder.  There were even paw marks about eye level on the sliding glass door as it most likely was trying to figure out how to get in.  Although a nuisance, none of this prompted the electric fence.  That came about after the bear grew bored with using the steps, and decided to leave the deck by walking through the screened in gazebo.

Lake City got its clever name from the lake that it's built around.  It was originally called Muskrat Lake, but today is known as Lake Missaukee.  It has one natural drain to regulate it's level, and that is the Mosquito creek.  Over the years the brook trout have come and gone in the little creek as the level would change to the demands of the lake.  The trout are all but gone today, as Michigan's water levels have suffered the past few years, but they'll be back, just in time for another generation of Roberts kids wanting to learn how to fish.

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