Hey, I just wanted to let all of you know I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth that, oh whoops, turned out to be flat after all. I just done got myself into a bit of a fix here, on account of a busted sink, a busted oven (yes, again!!!), a baby-girl […]
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Where, Oh Where Has Our Summer Gone?
Besides our trip to Lake Michigan and our visit to Cedar Point and Castaway Bay, we’ve done a great deal this summer. After returning from the Midwest, we spent a week back at the old house, seeing friends and soaking up some serious beach time. The tidal pools rocked that week, so the small people […]
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Cedar Point and Castaway Bay
Well, our big voyage north of the Mason-Dixon line to see our Yankee family members, the one which included a stop at an off-island beach, was actually also laced with a little business. Okay, a lot of business. As in, a week’s worth of business turned into four weeks’ worth of business. So there went […]
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An Off-Island Beach: Visiting Lake Michigan
Last weekend, some of our extended family invited us out to Lake Michigan to spend an evening on the beach. So we hopped in our jet and zipped on over. Except replace “jet†with “minivan†and replace “zipped†with “drove for like forever to get there.†Since I know many who live far from the […]
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Things Involving Animals Just Keep Happening to Me
Getting all Animal Planet on you lately is not part of my master plan. It’s just that it just keeps happening to me. So here we go again. A few days ago, LCB and I took a drive through the woods and found a new stretch of beach to explore. In fact, it turned out […]
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Summer List 2012
Last year, I wrote about my habit, started in Chicago, of making a list of must-dos for summer as a way of celebrating the season. As tomorrow marks the official beginning of summer and the summer solstice, I’m busy finalizing the Summer of 2012 list. There are the staples, of course, like pitchers of pink […]