Winds-Day

Very windy here today. Today is a slow Flo Day around here. Meems is out getting tested for drugs. HAH! its for one of her part time jobs giving out flu shots. On our walk the other day, some of the homes really get into the Halloween decorations. Oh WELL, maybe I am not that thirsty.

Its a time for change....

Just got through cutting the back forty for the last time of the year, put the mower away in the garage and brought down the snow blower. I am ready for anything that gets thrown at me. Hopefully it is just precautionary for a month or so. Gotta keep it dry and pleasant for the annual Tricks or Treats and the vigil for the Great Pumpkin.... singing pumpkin carols.... And we sure don't want a snow fall until I can pick up the 30 or so bags of leaves that are going to come down from the trees back there. Maybe this year, I can enlist the help of my able bodied grandchildren and pay them off with hot chocolate and Nana's cookies. Yeah.... Right!

Ooooooooo, Its October

.... and you all know what comes at the end of October.... As the second witch said in Hamlet, "By the prinking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." Watch out for all the ghosts and goblins. They will steal all the candy you collect from Trick or Treating.

We had a great time at the Corn Maze last weekend! We do this every year but this is the first time Luke has been old enough to go. They have this really cool little kids maze and he had a great time in there trying to hide from Kelsey :-) Then the 'big kids' stayed after dark and went into the BIG maze.

Did you say Dry Heat or Dry Heaves??

It became the running joke this past week that I spent out in Palm Springs, CA, where the temps averaged around 105 every day...every time someone would gasp "it is SOOO hot", someone would inevitably say, with extreme sarcasm, "yeah, but it's a dry heat." I think that is a fair assessment for anything under 100 degrees...once you start getting into the 100s, tho, dry or not, it's just HOT.

I was fortunate to be in a VERY nice villa all week with my friend Sue...we had the second-best villa at the La Quinta resort. We were in the Eisenhower Villa. The only better one was the El Presidente Villa, and that went to Phil Jackson, the coach of the L.A. Lakers. So I don't think we did too poorly. Here was the view out of the front of our villa - pool and mountains. In the mornings it was VERY nice out...cool and dry. I wish I had had time to go for a run or something in that weather. Ah well.

It was a loooooong, hot week, and I was VERY happy to come home yesterday and see Brendan and to just be relaxing most of today. Back to the office tomorrow for what will be 3 very busy days, I am sure, but then Brendan and I go to Vermont and New Hampshire on Thursday. Can't wait for that cool weather, some changing leaves, real maple syrup, a trip to the Ben and Jerry's ice cream factory, and just some nice time off.

Luke's Birthday

Sorry this is so late, but I'm finally getting around to posting a picture from Luke's birthday. He had such a blast! There were 6 or 7 other 2-year olds there, and it was a 'Cars' theme, of course. He didn't quite understand why everyone was singing and he sort of just stared at the candles, not sure what to do. I was trying to show him how to blow them out when one of the little boys there swooped in and did it for him :-) It was actually really cute, and Luke obviously didn't mind. He just wanted that cake with Lightning McQueen on it! So my little baby is 2...unbelievable! By the way, the reason he looks naked is because he is wearing a swim suit. Right before the cake, all the kids were running through the sprinklers. It was quite a sight! Love to all...now that I've got the hang of this, we'll be posting more often.

Gitchee Gumee

Standing here at Whitefish Pointe we can see the opposite shoreline where we were on the train going to the Agawa Canyon... and then beyond that for another 150 miles to where we got on a Pontoon boat and rode to an island resort in the middle of Lake Wabatongushi... a really big lake in itself. An interesting trip but we could have used another day on the island to explore.

Tuz's also took us on a side trip on the way back to visit the Tahquamenon Falls where we enjoyed a nice lunch prior to heading home. Missed everybody. sPike was glad to see us when we picked him up Sunday morning.