The photo is one my mouse sent me from her adventure hiking on the North Country Trail over near Marquette, Michigan. I was surprised (but not that surprised) to hear that Marquette has a Meijer store. I think the Sault Ste. Siberia Meijer was the first yooperland store (pre covid). I have Planet Ann Arbor friends from the Marquette area who were amazed that *we* had a Meijer at that time. Now the Marquette friends have a Meijer too. I love that and also love that my mouse and racoon are camping a few miles away from the Marquette Meijer. Plus they are camping right next to the North Country Trail.

I posted the frog picture because… This afternoon, I heard a lot of noise a couple of cabins down. That cabin had a faaaar back in the spring. It was built before I was born and a family of nine children spent time there. They didn’t spend the whole summer at their cabin like my family did but their home in town was on the river so if the water was calm enough they would drive their motorbote up the river from their house to their cabin. The dad (a friend of my dad’s) would drive the bote right up onto the beach and all the kids would jump out.

So many years later, the oldest daughter and her husband own that cabin. Alas, it caught on faaar in the spring. They have decided to tear it down and rebuild it. I have pictures of the demolition but I am not going to post them because I think this is extremely difficult for my childhood friend. Even though I doubt she knows I am a blahgger.

I actually read an entire book today. It’s been a while since I’ve done that. I encountered the book (The Caretaker by Ron Rash) on NPR a while back and I loved it. We won’t talk about the book I read before that. It included ghosts of all sorts, some “real” and some not, and all kinds of family drama that I couldn’t totally parse. Editor anyone?

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