Welcome to Jotunheim

March 6, 2012

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Mama Nature has her little ways. Last weekend she showed northern Michigan who’s boss. In fact, thousands of homes in Antrim County are still cold and dark. It’s beautiful here in the winter, and terrible, and fierce, and we are powerless, whether we have electricity or not. But we hang in there, haul each other […]

Babs votes for electricity

March 4, 2012

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Babs Young writes: We’ve had a rather mild winter until Friday night. Then it started to snow and it snowed and snowed until we had any where from 10 or 18 inches depending on where you were located. That’s all a good thing, we love snow up here, but this time the snow was very […]

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Babs heads to the pool

February 26, 2012

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Babs Young writes: It’s not been a great winter for snow, but Lake Michigan is spectacular with its snow mountains and water pools here and there. It’s hard not to take a nice photograph. I confess I am a grumpy bear myself – it was a beautiful day and I spent all of it indoors […]

Your Choice $20

February 23, 2012

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Come back after and say thank you.

Tending the livestock

February 22, 2012

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Miss Sadie and the Cowboy kept me plenty busy today and we  all feel better for it.  Sometimes I lose track of the important things.  They always remind me.  When you’re outdoors with animals, even days that look like this one feel . . . exhilarating.  Something close to that anyway.  Close enough to count […]

I want to thank the Members of the Academy, the Cowboy and Miss Sadie

February 21, 2012

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On Monday afternoon I was down at the State Theatre being fitted for a volunteer usher costume. We had a choice of headwear, bowties, pearls and stick-on mustaches to accessorize our tasteful maroon usher jackets. The popcorn was excellent.