Blogging Blight

I try, I try.  But, I am a blogger who has ambitions of regular, beautiful posts, complete with wonderful pictures.  The reality - I am a some times (very, very sometimes) blogger with blogger remorse.  I wish I could post more often and have wonderful, beautiful pictures to include.  Maybe someday.  Maybe not.  Right now, with a full time job (I guess many would say more than full time), and more interests than I know what to do with, I'll have to suffice with a little blogger remorse from time to time.

Here's what's new around the compound:

We visited Dayton and the US Air Force Museum - really an awe inspiring place, especially for a flier.  We went to Huffman Prairie - the place outside of Dayton where the Wright brothers practiced and perfected their flying.  Another place of reverence for the flier in my family. 

We spent the weekend in Chicago - one of us (not me) had meetings on Saturday.  One of us (yes, that was me) went to Stamp Thyme in Lockport and went shopping, then came back and found some great little stores in Forest Park (just outside Oak Park).  What fun. 

And now, to prepare for the 4th of July!  An open house with friend and work colleague, two parade practices and a parade, and then collapse in exhaustion in the back yard.  Have a great week!

Full mode summer

Well, it's summer here, finally - the weather's gotten warm and sunny & I think everyone's finally feeling like we might actually have summer.  (If you're not from my neck of the woods, suffice it to say it's been cold and rainy here for most of the spring - really good because we will have more water in the lakes, rivers, etc - not really good because we've also had lots of water in our basements, yards, etc.)

It would seem that I've done lots and lots of work on school-type stuff and very little work on "me" stuff.  That's wearing thin, but I'm hanging in there. 

Yesterday we went to the garden store, bought our garden and our flowers and started planting.  Today, my muscles are reminding me "um...what were you thinking..." but it's all good.  I look out the windows and see the pretty, neat rows and the pretty, neat, cleaned flower beds.  Only a little more to do today to make it sharp.

Then, we decided to take the little yellow car out for a spin to our favorite fish place for an early dinner - late lunch.  Yummo!!

So, the day seemed too good to just end with a drive back home - so, we went to several little towns, and ended at the car ferry dock in Ludington.  This is an old coal-fired ferry boat, originally meant for rail cars to be shipped across Lake Michigan.  Now it carries passenger cars, trucks, and passengers back and forth.  It is a wonderful ride, especially on a nice day.  We were there at about the time the boat would arrive from Wisconsin, so we decided to sit and wait.  It was wonderful!