We had a wonderful weekend of Christmas get togethers with my family. Here are some pics…

Rob and Adrienne both made me birthday cakes today. Rob made a homemade carrot cake-FROM SCRATCH! It was awesome. Tonight Adrienne made this cake for me to take to work tomorrow.

Yum Yum.

Hi everyone,

It has been a long time without a post. We’ve had a busy autumn with school and nursery projects here. I’m posting some photos of the progress of things around here.

School is going well. I’m enjoying it and have learned so much already. All of it has been applied at hospice and has helped us with some things that have come up.

Leaves on the east lawn

Walton Road

Rob and John spent the weekend building a hoop house. It will help with winter protection for our nursery plants and critter protection year around.

John was a huge help. Thankfully he’s coming back soon to help finish it up.

Nice job guys!

The “charming” Country Charm stove in the guest house has moved on. I listed it on Craigslist and a woman drove down from near Sault Ste Marie to buy it. She brought her burly sons and the two of them moved the 400 lb monster.

Now that it is gone we can make some changes to that “kitchen”.

For the first time in my life I’m getting to visit the EAA airfest at Oshkosh. Rob is working in Fond du Lac this week (15 miles from Oshkosh) and it worked out that I could take the boat over last night and stay with him, visiting the airfest while he works.

And what a day it was! I arrived, got checked in, and started checking things out. Pilots from around the world come year after year, so it took me some time to get my bearings, being my first time. It was very busy but I had fun.

After lunch I attended a small session for pilots to talk to Sully Sullenberger and Jeff Skiles who piloted the USAirways flight into the Hudson River in January. They were fantastic…

I visited the vendors buildings (many of them) and saw all the new devices, charts and gear.  Even headsets for your dog.

Tomorrow is Women in Aviation day.  I picked up a shirt to wear in a group photo tomorrow of all the girl pilots here.  That will be fun.

Tomorrow night we’re taking the Lake Express back to Muskegon and home late tomorrow night.

Here’’s more shots from today.  I can’t wait to come back next year.

We have a new camera. A Pentax DSLR. The great thing about it is my old lenses from my film SLR days all work on the new camera. While in Petoskey I got some great sunrise and sunset shots (is there any better place to get them?)

Sunrise from our campground…

Sunset from the campground…

Rob, Winston and I headed north with the tin can for a quick get away in Petoskey. We are at Magnus Park on Little Traverse Bay. Here’s a photo of our campsite and the tin can. Does it make you think of the Sesame Street song…”One of these things is not like the other”…???

Shortly after we arrived Linda drove in. She was worried she wouldn’t be able to find us among all the travel trailers here. But once she saw us, this was her response…

Could she be laughing at our tin can?

Kim came a little later and we had a nice dinner here.

Sorry about the butt shot Linda.

After dinner Kim and Linda left. She backed over our campsite marker so she left the same way she came in….giggling so hard she couldn’t drive…

Rob and I settled in for the gorgeous Petoskey sunset.

Then back into the tin can for our usual evening activities.

You may be wondering how we get on line…My computer is connected to my cell phone using bluetooth and from there I access the same services that let me read the news on my phone. Cool, huh?

Evan and I got to fish this morning at the Millpond. It was fun taking him and watching the Kingfishers diving into the water.

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Today is Jon and Susie’s first anniversary!
Enjoy your vacation

Happy Anniversary!

There are few things in life that are certain. One of those things is that each time my sister and I are together we get into fits of uncontrolled giggling. For her 50th birthday I made her a giggle sign and put a little picture of her dog Sophie in it. This week I got one for me too…so we have both have signs up in our homes of our giggling sisterhood. Here’s a picture of my sign…

Notice the L. It has a picture of the two of us. Ninnie and Nanna.  Here’s a close up…

Today we are heading back into the park and then continuing east toward Billings. We hope to be in a good position tomorrow to go to the Battle of the Little Bighorn battlefield then Park City and end the day in Missoula.

We flew into Bozeman today. We were a little late taking off from GRR and had a delay in Minneapolis. But we made it here around noon and had a great afternoon.

First we had lunch at this nice spot…

Then had to check out the cemetery and visit Chet Huntley…

Then spent the main part of the afternoon at the Museum of the Rocky Mountains at University of Montana. It was fantastic. There is so much dinosaur history here with new digs and findings happening all the time.

Finally, we started south to West Yellowstone…

A wonderful day!

I will never tire of looking out the window and seeing the horses…especially Sunny sleeping in the meadow.

We had a fun weekend with our new “tin can”. I love these old vintage travel trailers. I just can’t help it.

Here are some more shots. We parked the trailer at the pond last night and had a nice dinner then camped out. We tried to disconnect from the world, but Rob just had to email pictures to facebook.

MSU gave me the OK today to do my internship at hospice. Much of my current job will apply toward the internship. The rest of the needed time I’ll get by researching some issues in hospice and grant writing. So it will be great for hospice and great for me.

Classes start in September!

We had a busy weekend working on new gardening beds. Thankfully we had a break yesterday and spent a wonderful day in Toledo with family.

Here are some pictures of our garden beds…in progress and as they are tonight. After the last garden picture check out my new favorite tool.

From our front yard….