Sunday-Thursday, July 16th-20th - We Are Still Alive and Well

 I just haven't found the time, or perhaps just didn't have the drive, to get online and do daily blog posts.

Kelsey has posted a lot on Facebook, check out her stuff if you are a Facebook user. Tuesday morning she and the kids flew back to Missouri. Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday Kathy and I didn't do much. Actually Kathy did a lot of cleaning, I'm the one who didn't do much.

Tuesday we went to a pizza place for lunch. Kathy ordered a "specialty pizza" and I ate off the pizza buffet, a mistake on my part. Kathy said hers was good, the pizza on the buffet might have been good if it was hot but it was barely warm.

Getting around the area is a pain. Most intersections on the main streets don't allow left turns so you have to make a right turn, go a block, make another right turn, go a block, make a third right turn and go a block. All that instead of a simple left hand turn. On top of the the main east west street was being repaved. If you were eastbound and wanted to get to a store on the westbound side of the street you had to drive the full length of the paving area, several miles, make a U-turn and drive back to that store. 

Wednesday Kathy found a listing for a  restaurant named Grand Coney. My mouth watered as I thought about all the great hot dogs that they would have on the menu. (I like hot dogs.) We fought way around side streets in an attempt to beat the several mile drive thru the construction site. It probably took us longer than if we had just given in and driven through the construction.

This area is all relatively new retail construction. I'm not sure what the Architect was going for when he/she designed the building façade. As we pulled into the lot we wondered about the lack of cars. Grand Coney had already failed and was closed.

We ended up driving another 8 miles to a BBQ place located in a micro brewery. Kathy's hamburger was barely edible. My pulled pork was good. The place wasn't busy and it took forever to get our food. I left a Google review saying that I didn't much care for McDonalds but rather than go back to this restaurant I would eat at the McDonalds across the street. The food might not be a lot better but at least it would be a lot less expensive.

These were the "premium" sites on the other side of the campground. While the concrete pads and patios were nice I liked our tree covered shady site much better.

The weather has been good, although the temperatures are low enough that even the pool water is cool for Nolan. He got out in Lake Michigan but the water was to cold for him to stay long.

This morning (Thursday) the weather forecasts included warnings to not go out on the Lake Michigan piers because the waves were high enough that you  might get washed into the lake. We hung around the campground until noon and then left for Mom's. The first 80 miles were windy enough that driving wasn't fun for Kathy. We stopped at a rest area on the north side of Kalamazoo for lunch. By the time we left the wind had calmed down. For the last 20 miles of our travel the pavement was wet and we did get some rain, nothing heavy. Just before we got to Mom's it started raining heavily. By the time we stopped back by the pond the rain has almost stopped. We did get another shower later.

It was humid today, to the point of being uncomfortable, when combined with the 83 degree high temperature. Now, 11:30PM, the temperature is down to 67 degrees, with a humidity of 77%. The dew point is 59 degrees. By morning the temperature is supposed to be down to 61 degrees. The humidity is supposed to be lower tomorrow and temps are forecast for a high of 80 with an overnight low 57 tomorrow night. I do love Michigan weather, to bad the state government is controlled by Socialist Democrats. There are enough people in Detroit to outvote the rest of the residents of the state.

God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours.