Four season fun on the shores of Lake Michigan! Ice mountains, volcanos, the power and fury of winter! The lake freezing mostly over. Well, not this year. This year, Lake Michigan is only 7% ice covered. Usually it is 40% or more. Occasionally, every Great Lake has frozen completely over… but never Lake Michigan. Although…
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Aug 31st: When is the last time you have had a day like this?
A perfect do nothing day. Most people have no idea how to live like this, but we have perfected it. An hour of cycling, lunch, sunny beach, a sunset beach, and a channel run. My Terratrike Rambler is getting a solid workout most every morning. The weather is perfect. Low 70’s and a breeze makes…
Dec 14th: A blustery, beautiful day… and a covid booster tale
Yes, most days we still visit our stunning freshwater inland sea. Ever changing. Always alluring. I just can’t imagine living in a place where you can’t venture to an awesome sea every single day… talking to you Iowa! I read a few different pieces on best places to live in the USA for 2021. Iowa…
October 25th: The Last Swim
All year long, we travel to a Lake Michigan beach, or several beaches, most every day. A few days past, it was in the 70s with a water temperature of about 65. While we were sitting, enjoying the peaceful sounds of waves, along came two women to take the last swim of the year. Not…
October 22nd: Plant Your Trees
When You Build Your House…. Plant your trees Yes, this is an analogy post. But rooted (couldn’t help it) in my real life. It is incredible to me that so many people fail to plant their trees in life. Both real… and the other kind. We finally moved into our new home two months ago….
June 21st: Four days away
Crazy times with closing on our brand new home just four days away. So much to do… and yet always time to relax at the beach. Unusually cool today with 64 degree temps. Also a red flag day. A welcome change.
June 12th: Help Wanted!
Need a job? It was a bitter cold winter day… at least by St Louis standards. An incredible line of people queued up, hoping against hope to land a job with General Electric. To work remanufacturing huge train locomotive traction motors. Three hundred people in line that day, for two or three jobs. My coworker…
May 3rd: Tudor Ice!
Taking a peek into our new home to be, we found the final paint cans staged in the second bedroom. Exciting times! For most of our rooms, we chose Tudor Ice. It is an historic paint from the Federal Period of 1780 – 1830. A time when the federal republic of the United Sates was…
May 1st: Twenty-three windows
“Why don’t we just call Budget Blinds and have them quote window treatments for our condo?” I asked my wife. “That’s a lot of windows, the cost would be enormous,” my wise wife replied. We had previously had Budget Blinds put some roller shades in the apartment we have occupied the past three years. Spent…
April 26th: The wall
Condo, villa, townhouse, duplex, house… all these words that can mean different things. We knew we wanted more space, privacy, a great neighborhood, brand new construction, maintenance free-ish living, and our own design touches. But what exactly would our new home look like? The same as a freestanding house… or one with a shared…