9/11

Spent the afternoon with mom and her friends at her nursing home singing patriotic songs.  I looked around at all the gray haired women and men singing and they knew all the words to the songs.  I thought how did they learn them?  We don't teach our kids many of these songs anymore unless they're in a school play!  Will this generation grow up knowing these songs?  Most of these people were born during WWII.  Wonder what their memories were as they sang these songs today!  It was fun on this solemn day!

Active Living in the UP

These last two weeks have been fun.  Had my niece and her family here as they enrolled their son in Michigan Tech.  Was fun to see them and discuss college again!  Both of the parents are alumni of this school so they loved it!  Then my sister Roberta and her husband were here  for this past week.  We hiked into Canyon Falls, one of the beautiful waterfalls in Michigan.  Not a sole on the path which is sad in a way.  People are missing out on this natural wonder!  Went kayaking with some former teacher friends.  It's funny how I haven't seen one of my colleagues in 30 years and it's like we saw each other yesterday.  My first time to kayak.  Beautiful sunny day, but around 70 degrees!  You just float out on that kayak on the bay.  You see those beautiful evergreeens all around the lake.  So calm and relaxing.  These ladies meet once a week to do this.  They wave at the school buses as they go by!
I've even sewn my nephew that is going to college a tshirt quilt, so I'm on my way out to the quilter today.  She lives on Otter Lake, so can't wait to see that!  Been on lots of back roads, not always sure where.  There is still plenty of unclaimed land and trees up here.  Lots of logging going on!
The storage units are coming to Texas today, so Bill will be loading them up.  Then we'll decide what we're doing next!  It's nice to have flexibility.