I had Tuesday thru Friday off so we spent a three days in Traverse City. We didn’t get to eat dinner out on the patio of any restaurant. The wind really picked up both nights that we were there. We did eat lunch outdoors and spent time on the deck of the Holiday Inn overlooking the bay in the morning reading the paper. That’s what we need to do more - shift our sitting outdoors to the mornings when it’s going to be a hot day.
We helped the local economy by stopping at a couple of wineries and spending some time downtown. All and all it was a good trip. Except for the drive up; it took a whole lot longer than expected. We decided on the more scenic U.S. 31 not realizing the portion 196/31 was one lane each way. Forgot how much Holland has grown which means more traffic lights than we remembered. And then bridge work with a couple miles of road work farther north that was down to only 1 lane - meaning they would let a group of south bound traffic through, wait until that cleared, and then let a group of north bound traffic through. That was a 10-but-felt-like-20 minute wait. The 190 mile drive took us just under 4 hours.
I haven’t done the annual garage cleaning and starting to bug me. Normally, it would be an early morning start one day in June and have it done in a couple hours. But early June was filled with excuses and then it got hot. There hasn’t been a let-up on the hot part. Maybe in September.
They did expand the deck and put in a patio with fire pit during their time off in Tennessee. Dang, they do good work.
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