It has been a Friday night thing of late… dinner and a beach. The chefs at Old Boy’s Brewhouse go off menu on weekends and create one time only special dishes. It would be a rookie move to order from the menu on a weekend. The specials are always, well… special. Tasty culinary treats not…
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May 8th: September wedding beach
They have finally smoothed out the sand and put the walkway down. Off in the distance below, at the end of the path, will be my daughter’s wedding. An end of summer wedding. It may be 80 degrees and sunny. It may be 60 degrees and rainy. Either way it will be perfect. Two families,…
May 4th: Sand and water
The snow fences are finally down at North Beach. The sand drifts have been pushed back to the beach. Now the huge piles need to be spread smoothly and then sculpted pristine by the wind. Preparations for summer are everywhere. Maintenance crews out in full force. Roads closed to repair the ravages of winter. And…
April 17th: Waiting for our ship to come in
Well, actually more waiting for our fishing boat to return from dry dock. Along with all the other fishing boats. And not “our”, but the one we will be using for our fishing trip several weeks from now. Same boat and captain as last year’s trip… Danel Sportfishing. Last year our 40 can beer cooler…
April 14th: Where do the children play?
Yesterday we had two geese steps from our patio, madly eating and eating. Like their lives depended on it. Perhaps they knew the snow was coming. Today the geese where nowhere to be seen. But our two ducks were still on the pond. So after the Tiger Woods drama, I watched the ducks swim around…
April 12th: Tear down this fence
Almost 32 years ago, President Reagan gave the speech, “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” I wonder how many Americans really know much about the speech. How 50,000 had gathered in Berlin to protest Reagan being there. How the western media had largely ignored covering it. How his own administration had argued against Reagan using those…
April 9th: Itching to explore
We were planning our first trip to the Upper Peninsula, then noticed Marquette is in a Winter Storm warning… expecting up to a foot of snow. Rapid City, South Dakota is in a Blizzard Warning. A big late winter storm moving across the tip-top of the country. Still planning our trip, but delaying it for the…
April 8th: My brother’s birthday
Today is my brother’s birthday. He died eight years ago at the age of 65. The healthiest, most active person I knew. Tennis several times a week, always going strong, but with a gentle relaxed style. Cancer took him out of the blue, and quickly. He was a significant part of my motivation to quit…
April 6th: Grand Haven sunset
Sunset on the beach last night with my wife… simple pleasures needing no other words.
April 5th: This Side of Paradise
Fifty two years ago, the Star Trek episode “This Side of Paradise” aired. The Enterprise was sent to a planet where an agricultural and research colony had been established several years earlier. They expected to find the entire colony wiped out from exposure to deadly radiation. Instead, the colonists were alive and happy… very, very…