Michigan Roll Call

I was a Michigander for twelve years, but the wife and kids hated the snow :D

I miss the winters, and keggers in the back yard by a bonfire. People in California think they are so cool and hip, but they aren't. They don't even know what a pole barn is, LOL.

And don't even think about bringing up deer season. They see my camo hunting bow and look at me like I'm crazy.

I miss Lansing, and Holt, and Charlotte, and Pinckney, :(
 
We started at Saugatuck and took two weeks, hitting as many towns as we could: Grand Haven, Pentwater, Ludington, Manistee, Frankfort, Leland, Traverse City, Charlevoix, Petoskey, Harbor Springs, finally Mackinnaw City and across to the island, then down Lake Huron to Cheboygan. Then we made a beeline down 75 back home.

It's the kind of trip that has to be the objective in itself, not something you do on the way to somewhere else. Michigan has one of the most magnificent shorelines in the country, if not the world, and people who've never experienced it are missing out.
 
I got my license in May and school was out the second week of June. I got a 69 Impala for my first car. My dad took a week off work and we went up north. I drove the whole trip. We headed up 75 and went to Marquette along the North shore for a few days and visited family. Then we headed back down along US2. Then we took the west side down on the way home and drove the shore line. Still remember that trip after all these years. Got a flat tire on the X-way. Dad yelled at me for not staying on the road. Then he made me change the tire.
 
I remember our trip after all these years, but for a different reason: it was the last one we took before she died.

I still tease my son (who was four) about riding on my shoulders on Mackinac and dropping his chewing gum in my hair; I had to walk around with this huge lump of gum stuck to the side of my head until we could find a pair of scissors to snip it out with.

Note to all: DO NOT let your children chew gum when you're carrying them on your shoulders.
 
I was a Michigander for twelve years, but the wife and kids hated the snow :D

I miss the winters, and keggers in the back yard by a bonfire. People in California think they are so cool and hip, but they aren't. They don't even know what a pole barn is, LOL.

And don't even think about bringing up deer season. They see my camo hunting bow and look at me like I'm crazy.

I miss Lansing, and Holt, and Charlotte, and Pinckney, :(

We should trade lives for a month ... Maybe January lol. Sounds like you are from my neck in the woods.
 
There is a pbs special on this week about Houghton, Michigan!! Under The Radar, Michigan.
 
My brother-in-law went to Tech. He said one winter the snow drifted so high against the front of the house where he was living that he and his roommate went in an out the window of their upstairs room to go to class.

Don't know if it's true, but Houghton sounds like a great place to be--in summer. :)
 
My brother-in-law went to Tech. He said one winter the snow drifted so high against the front of the house where he was living that he and his roommate went in an out the window of their upstairs room to go to class.

Don't know if it's true, but Houghton sounds like a great place to be--in summer. :)

It's quite possible. To be honest though, some houses are set into the ground a bit so the snow has an advantage.

Many people do need to shovel their roofs.
 
There is a pbs special on this week about Houghton, Michigan!! Under The Radar, Michigan.

Under The Radar is on every week. Not sure what day but he travels all over Michigan. There was a Detroit episode about a month ago that was pretty cool.

My brother-in-law went to Tech. He said one winter the snow drifted so high against the front of the house where he was living that he and his roommate went in an out the window of their upstairs room to go to class.

Don't know if it's true, but Houghton sounds like a great place to be--in summer. :)

First year my dad moved up was one of the worst ever. His house is on 1 acre of land. Family lived next door at the time and would help him out with the snow. One morning there was so much that they could not get out of the house to get over to the garage or the truck with the plow. Dad was able to get his garage door open. Had to plow a path to their house and dig out the door for them.

They would shovel the roof all the time also. He said by the end of winter the snow off the back of the house was at roof line and going into the back of the yard. Was long enough also that he felt the kids could have snowboarded off the peak.
 
The planes! The planes!

Perfect day for foosball— sunny, cool, trees changing.:D

But I'm playing dodge(foos)ball...at least dodge the traffic.

took AC units out of windows (5 of them)... OOF, somehow they get heavier every year!:rolleyes:

"signed" up for a hair cut. (That woman does it, in the laundry room)

then there will be errands....
 
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whew!
Been there, did that!
Made it back, through the gauntlet of police and traffic as the hoards were leaving our neighborhood and we wuz coming home.

A big win for "my" team.
 
Morning, everyone.

Caught the Frank Sinatra tribute by the DSO last night. First half was good (love the swing/big band sound). Second half, not so much...didn't care for Frank's waning years. He covered other's stuff but tried to shoehorn them into the big band format, with poor results.

Anyone else do anything fun last night other than watch the Greens and Blues win?
 
heading home

coming that way this week for a few days before it get too cold.... I will be nice to eat some coney dogs
 
My son, who works in the film industry and lived in New York city, was designing a set one day that was set in the SE Michigan area. One of the storefronts he put together was a Coney Island, with a prominent "Gyros" sign in the window in Greek. Everybody else on set kept asking him, "What's a 'Coney Island' dog? And why Greek?"

Evidently the whole "coney island" thing is purely SE Michigan; they don't have them in New York, not even on Coney Island. Funny.
 
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