MISQUAH — The Mud Lake Property Owners’ Association held its annual meeting Tuesday evening in the back room of the Daybreak Café. Two members attended, which the secretary recorded as “a quorum, if we’re being generous, and we generally are.”

The meeting, gaveled in at 6 p.m. and adjourned by 6:35, moved through the full agenda. President Dorothy Knutson delivered the treasurer’s report — a balance of $43.18 and a hardware-store coupon nearing expiration — and the association reaffirmed, without dissent, its standing position that Mud Lake is “underrated.”

That position has gone unchallenged for as long as anyone present could recall, on the logic, Knutson explained, that “to be underrated, a thing first has to be rated, and so far as we know nobody has ever rated Mud Lake at all.”

Discussion turned, as it does most years, to renaming the lake. “Crystal Lake” was put forward by the other member in attendance and withdrawn after Knutson observed that the lake is “neither crystal nor, in most spots, technically a lake — more of a firm suggestion.” The matter was tabled to 2027.

The association reported that the swimming remains good “once you’re past the soft part,” acknowledged that the soft part constitutes most of the lake, and noted that the four nesting loons appear indifferent to the lake’s name, rating, or consistency.

The pie social, traditionally the meeting’s principal event, will reconvene Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Daybreak. All are welcome, members and skeptics alike.