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@StLouisCruisers bon voyage. Enjoy your vacation and time at sea. 🍾

We are at our cabin. Last week's opening was smooth. This week we arrived to no electricity. A short caused an over current. We know what is probably causing it. Texted our solar guy and we got it running again. Today no water. Not enough electricity to run the well but we have power. Going through our check lists to get it going again including charging the system with the generator. We have internet. I signed up with GMs wifi for the summer but the truck needs to be on. Minor problems compared to what is going on in our world. Prayers for the families of the children and teachers lost and for the people of Ukraine.

Happy Monday and Happy Victoria Day. We are on our way north. Spending a nice part way trip to Petoskey Michigan. View from out room in Petoskey.

Good Sunday morning. A bad tornado went through a town we pass through every time we go to and from the cabin and it hit a commercial area. Sadly 2 people were killed. We head north tomorrow for the summer so I am early and have a long day of gardening and house cleaning so we have a decent place when we return sometime in September. Prayers for all on Roy's care list, the people of Ukraine, Buffalo and Gaylord MI. A pic of where we are heading to. Hopefully I won't be dark all summer.

Good morning. I missed again yesterday. DF left his pills at the cabin and he just has 2 days in his pill pod. Therefore our leisurely preparations for departure got pinched. Mail forwarding, last mani and pedi for the summer, groceries, hauled 4 cases of wine up from the cellar and out to the garage. I collapsed in bed at 6:30 and slept 12 hours. Less stressful today, housecleaning while watching the Preakness Stake races. Have a great trip Roy! 🍾⛴️ Prayers for all on Roy's care list and those who need it. 🙏 Past cat TV at my house. My Tiny and Lydia RIP.

Hello everyone. I am trying to get caught up. We had no phone therefore no hotspot inside our cabin. The phone worked well enough outdoors where I found one spot where I had a signal so I could call Direct TV to reset our receiver. At least the TV worked. I will have to sign up for the internet that GM sells so we have wifi and use the phone outdoors. DF's phone had some 5G service last year, this year no service. On top of that while we were loading and unloading 2 lawn tractors in the woods he lost his phone and we couldn't find it. The cabin opening went smoothly other than the 1000 or so dead flies that are an every year event. I have decided insect bombs inside before we leave are useless. The 5 mile logging road we take to the cabin was the driest and smoothest ever thanks to logging along it last fall. We had a brisk wind to unload the truck so no black flies. We are back home, resting up from the drive and cabin opening and will head up next week. Here are some pics from our drive from MI Lower Peninsula to the Upper, US 2 along Lake Michigan and Spring Beauties covering the forest floor.

Good Sunday morning. Another early morning for us. Our plant sale went well and I think we took in about $600. The rest will sell at the Farmer's Market next Saturday. We are finishing loading the truck and we will be heading north to our cabin for a couple of days. I will be missing for a few days unless the phone signal is strong enough to run my hotspot or simply my phone. Have a beautiful Sunday. Prayers for the people killed and injured in the callous shooting in Buffalo and for all on Roy's care list and for the people of Ukraine. 🙏

Happy Friday! Very early rise and shine for me to start hauling plants to the front of the garage. I think the frogs are jumping behind my house I hear them croaking all the time. A great quote from JL and so true for these days. I will wait for the meal, the drink sounds tasty. Today's wine is a dandy. It will not be too cheap I am sure. I have never been to Denmark. Prayers for all on Roy's care list, the remaining souls in Mariupol and all the people in Easter Europe affected by Putin's war. 🙏

Good morning, another hot, humid day in SW MI. I went out to feed the birds and found that our roving raccoons had dug up several of my plants I have ready for our plant sale and a fragile Palm that I divided. All will be fine except I am worried about the Palm. Fatigue syndrome is probably a result of many things and part of long Covid. International nurses day is so important, the crises keep on coming. Covid is not licked and the Russian attack on Ukraine is causing so many injuries. I like to hear a limerick. The quote showed how vulnerable MM was. Thanks @dfish for the recipes, they look good. I hope you can get some relief not just more tests. The drink looks tasty and the wine looks good, Provence is an area with good value wines. Have not been to Morocco. @rafinmdYou will make things so much easier for your family to pre-plan. I was surprised that my late DH came home one afternoon and said he had been to the local funeral home to prepay and set up some things for his final arrangements. Sadly we had to use them earlier than we had ever expected but his brother (the officiant) and I were able to get everything set up. The hardest part was finding a place for the after service meal. Too many people for our home so it was the local fire hall. I need to take a lesson from that and do so myself. Prayers for all on Roy's care list and for the people in Ukraine and those that support them. Today is more plant sale preparation and staying indoors for the rest of the day to start preparing for our first trip to our cabin next week. Have a nice day!

Good morning! An interesting group of days. I practice daily fasting so I usually eat from noon and full stop at 6 pm. That means when I can eat I can eat what I want. School nurses are a rare breed these days. I don't know how school systems handled all the testing and screening for Covid. My mother was a secretary who also welcomed people to the building so she had some receptionist duties also. She studied for and took that job so she could earn money for us to have an in ground pool. I will pass on the dish. The drink kind of reminds me of something we had on the NS this winter. I recall it was called Double O ______. Can't remember the name but the bartenders made some dandies. The wine is especially interesting because if all goes to plan we will be in Punte del Este Uruguay so I am looking for local wines and wineries. It looks like quite the operation. I hope it isn't too far from the port. Have never been to Falmouth. Prayers for all on Roy's care list and for the remaining souls holding on in Mariupol. Prayers for all involved in this conflict. 🙏 Puerta Caldera, Costa Rice HA Shorex to Pura Vida Gardens

Good morning, another beautiful, warm sunny day on tap. I will be working with all the plants I have on the back patio to price them for our garden club's sale on my driveway on Saturday. I just had company so all rooms are really spiffy, just a bit of dusting in order now. My DSIL runs a small business, it is turning into a lot of headaches with competition from Amazon and getting good employees. I usually trust my intuition, I think with all of us it goes on without us even recognizing it. Quote from Hemingway was interesting, Anyone having seen the PBS documentary on him could see that writing was never easy for him. Will pass on the carb load sandwich, drink sounds like a winner and the Pinot Noir sounds like a good one. I look forward to everyone's pics of Dubai. I always mark my calendar for the Dubai World Cup horse races, last Saturday in March. @kazu I am happy to see you back. I hope you get some time of peace and reflection and memories of your wonderful times with Jose'. @grapau27 Thanks for your pics from your Dubai visit. I'll share a cute little burro from Corinto, Nicaragua. Have a nice day!