Dexter and I (and sometimes Joel) have been on a crazy midwest tour. Michigan, Chicago, Central Illinois, and Wisonsin in one week. Here are a few photos...

Doesn't this belong in a catalog?

Well, it's summer and I've been having fun so I haven't posted in a while. Summer gets kind of busy with weddings and trying to spend equal amounts of time with all of your divorced parents. (I love you all :) ). It is fun busy though. This past weekend I got to relive the past a little bit. When I was very little my family and some good friends of ours would go to Sister Lakes in Michigan. We usually rented these tiny cottages on Dewey Lake or we'd stay in a "resort" called Shady Shores. Shady Shores has not changed a bit. The playground equipment, the furniture, the cabins have not been updated since the sixties. Everything was very clean, but very rustic. It was great though. I don't know if my photos will do justice, but it was a beautiful weekend and Little Man had a blast.


Little Man, big trees...




Donovan was a good sport for most of the weekend too.

Make way for goslings

This morning as I was driving down 95th street to take D to daycare, what should I see but a family of geese meandering down the middle of a busy street. (The picture above is a representation, and I think the picture is of ducks. I saw geese.) It kind of made my morning although the pessimist in me worried that it is a sign of some horrible environmental crises and that the family was probably doomed if they didn't find a safer thoroughfare.

Also, since I have declared myself the arbiter or acceptable vernacular, I think people shouldn't say cougar anymore. It has become pretty overused, and I think a bigger problem to the social scene of twentysomethings would be the male equivalent of cougars with their paunches, receding hairlines, and braided belts. Though, I guess, how would I know because I am thirtysomething and rarely ever go out to bars. I'm just sayin'.

And I watched twenty minutes of The Bachelorette on ABC last night... toxic.