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A certain shade of green

June 12, 2010

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It is a rainy Saturday and I am recovering from last night’s adventures. There I was, deep in books and papers and long tangly online searches, when everything grew very, very quiet. This is always a bad sign around here. I looked up and saw that the sky was a certain shade of green. Those […]

Letters from Dee Grammer

June 10, 2010

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I have a big black mailbox across the road.  It is attached to a sturdy post buried deep in the sandy soil and anchored in concrete.  All of this for a few bills and flyers–and surprises that occasionally appear.  Most of the surprises are delightful.  Recently, however, the mailbox became infested with teeny tiny black ants.  […]

A special post for Louan

June 9, 2010

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On Monday night Louan wrote on her Facebook wall.  Would her friends (who are legion) please send her good thoughts, white light, prayers, and visions of healing on Tuesday morning at 11:00 am, as she was going in for a biopsy and would need all the help she could get.  An astonishing variety of loving messages poured in.  […]

Boats on fire, a plague of locusts, sheriffs descending on the Day Park – what next?

June 4, 2010

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Everyone seems to think I will have an answer to all the pressing questions of the day.  Not necessarily the right answer, mind you, but one that will serve.  Dean Branson wants to know about the burning boat on Torch Lake.  All I know is that a small boat caught fire, no one was hurt, […]

Eastport going to the dogs

June 2, 2010

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What can I say, Bruce’s post about cats was tremendously popular, and now Miss Sadie and the Cowboy are clamoring for a dog post.  Fine.  As it happens, I have some irresistible images from the Petoskey Stone Festival and from a lovely walk on the beach.  Big dogs, little dogs, a tiny dog, and Jett […]

We interrupt this program

June 1, 2010

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Today Betty Jo Hudson is down at Munson getting a new knee.  She is very happy about this, but a bit apprehensive, and would appreciate good thoughts winging her way.  I figure she’ll enjoy Bruce’s post about Tiger and Brambles, and I know she’ll enjoy meeting the new staff members at Chris and Sonny’s Torch […]