Checking In

It's been longer than I thought it would be since I last posted. 

We had a good - but really hot - weekend away. We tried to limit time in the sun and - to be honest - couldn't stand out in it long. I sweated even standing still lol. Luckily, the site we were on was in the shade for all but a few hours of the day. There were a couple of showers, but they didn't really mess with the weekend too much. There was a strong storm in Kalamazoo while we were gone, but thankfully the only thing we lost was a tree limb in the back garden. 

Tuesday though we lost power from 1am -7pm. Apparently, somebody crashed into a pole at the top of the street in a hit and run and took out a huge area of power. Sigh. It was a hot uncomfortable day. There were several times when we notified that our power was back on...only it wasn't so then I would have to go report another outage. Finally, it did come on!

The mini cabin and some sunrises. The mornings were lovely and peaceful, though during the day it was quite busy. I suppose everyone had the same idea on hot days to get to the beach. I'm not sure how they can sit out in it. I can't do that any longer. 

Back home for a little bit now...less time than I thought, but more in the next post. 

Hope everyone is doing okay. I've been trying to catch up with blogs. 

Back Again

Thanks for all the lovely comments on the last post. I do appreciate them. 

We had a lovely weekend away. The weather was good, nice and sunny. The campground was packed, but we had expected that as it was a holiday weekend. The mini cabin we stayed in was quite nice. The only thing was that it was fairly close to a busy road, so not very quiet during the day when we were sitting outside. The nights were quiet though. 

I got up and did sunrises and stayed up and did sunsets. Lovely to see. The campground was in a State Park that was on the shores of Lake Huron which is a Great Lake on the east side of Michigan. The beach was busy at sunset, but it was big enough that we could walk along and have a little slice of sunset quiet by ourselves. At sunrise I was the only one on the beach. Lovely. I sat on one of the downed logs and watched the colours in the sky and the birds (including eagles) flying over the lake hoping to catch some breakfast. 

It was a lovely break. We did some walking, there were a couple of trails. I'm not sure this campground will be one we'd go back to though. It was quite small and crowded and some of the other campers were quite loud. There is supposed to be quiet times between 10 and 8 but people were certainly making quite a bit of noise after 10. The good thing for us is that as we were in the mini cabin we were spaced a little bit away from actual campers.

Tomorrow is the first of June and time to start my 50 in June decluttering. I'm glad that some people said they were going to give it a go too! I think being away from the house and then coming back makes me see what needs to be tackled AND makes me want to do it!

I'll finish now with some phone photos of our camping trip

Mini Cabin

Sunset

A walk along the trail

Along the Beach