How it started, how it’s going
July 3rd, 2025 by kayak woman43 years ago it was a nice day for a white wedding. Or maybe it was just a beach wedding. Man oh man, my beloved mother was bugging me up the wazoo to wear shoes. On the beach? No mom I will not. She had been brought up “properly” in the Detroit area but she had also lived for umpteen bazillion summers on the beach by that time. Us kids always went barefoot here so I was puzzled about why she wanted me to put shoes on for my beach wedding. To hell with that. I went barefoot ANYWAY and when my dad joined me to walk with me down the “aisle”, he was barefoot too. I don’t really miss my parents all that much normally but I am tearing up a bit at that memory.
We have spent our anniversaries many places but usually we are with family, my fam or the GG’s fam or whoever, at home on The Planet Ann Arbor, Hoton Lake or the moominbeach. This year was a quiet one. We are at the moominbeach and the GG spent the morning in the Lyme Lounge reporting his 522 hours of volunteer time on the North Country Trail so far in 2025. We drove over to Barbeau for lunch at Cozy Corners, not to be confused with the Cozy Inn in Brimley. Both are good places.
Upon returning from lunch, the GG took a pretty straight trajectory to a nap. I did an audio book for a while, then dozed off a bit until my earbuds fell on the floor. That woke me up.
We finished off the day with a porterized happy hour on Bill’s Birch Point Beach Bank Bench. And so good night.