By Marie Marciano Gullard, Special to The Baltimore Sun
10:18 a.m. EDT, July 13, 2012
Hanging on the wall of Mike and Jean Tumbarello’s new retreat at Deep Creek Lake is an old framed greeting card with a primitive drawing of a brown log cabin nestled among trees aglow with autumn colors. The scene is rendered in crayon with a sentiment that reads, in part: “Jean, here’s our cottage in the country. I wish I were in it with you right now. …”
“The card was sent before we married — probably 1974, when we were dating in college, when you actually had to use snail mail,” Jean Tumbarello recalled.
While her husband’s artwork hasn’t improved that much over the ensuing years, he was better at his promise of a place in the country. What the couple built together — after 34 years of marriage — is a 4,000-square-foot Arts & Crafts-style bungalow with an interior that could be described as a “mini lodge.”
“We got our house as an anchor for our dream life,” said Jean Tumbarello, who, together with her husband, will move out of their rented condo in Ellicott City and embark on their new life as full-time residents of Deep Creek Lake.
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