Note: I’m tidying up the mulch pile, finishing perfectly good musings I never got around to posting on TLV. Waste not want not. Besides, it’s too cold out to go gallivanting around the countryside taking pictures. Back in October 2012 I trotted into the Elk Rapids Library and was brought up short by swaths of […]
OK, I think I got that wrong. I’ve been out of town—without Miss Sadie and the Cowboy—and I’m forgetting everything. Hold on. Hogmanay. That’s it. Happy first day of Hogmanay. The photos have nothing to do with Hogmanay, but they will catch you up on various things. Consider them a garnish. I learned the word (Hogmanay-try […]
Babs was out and about during a warmish bit last Monday, after it had rained. She wrote: It is our fondest hope that one day soon these cherry trees will be filled with blossoms, but not this week. Indeed.
As everyone Around Here knows by now, Chris and Sonny divided the Torch Lake Market in two and put both sides up for lease. Then they went on vacation. All winter snow piled up in the parking lot and I mourned. However. On Saturday morning at 8 am the Torch Lake Cafe will reopen. I […]
Do you remember Heckle and Jeckle? They were, for those of you too young to remember such things, Terrytoons characters featured in movie and TV cartoons and comic books from the 1940s up until 1980 or so. I guess they were supposed to be magpies. I always thought they were crows, which is why I […]
And here is your Weather Report: Storms and electrical outages followed by the blessed return of power and seasonally appropriate snow. Excellent treats at Cora Stoppert’s house on Christmas Day – breakfast at Chris and Sonny’s later that week – lots of good books to read evening after evening – three feral kittens to feed […]
January 8, 2014
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