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 11th: Black Car
“Black is not a color choice, it is a part-time job.” This I was told back in 2007 after I bought my Toyota Avalon. Living in Iowa, on a short gravel road, I was constantly hand washing this beautiful automobile. For four years, I fought the good fight. Many hours applying multiple coats of paint…
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…
April 3rd: It’s a wonderful life
After midnight last night, we finished watching the Kansas City Royals snatch defeat from the warm gentle, grasp of another almost victory… the bullpen is going to do that regularly. I slept in this morning. Something I have done too regularly this winter. Walking out to our living room about 10:30am, my wife seemed a…
April 2nd: FINALLY!!!
The ice gone, the waves along the shore are back. Spring is here! Winter wasn’t so bad. The lake was entertaining. But… but… but… the waves crashing against the shore again. The promise of Spring, then Summer. Day after day, beach after beach. And the time to enjoy it all. Such overwhelming waves of joy….