Away for the Weekend

We went away for a mini-weekend break. As some of you know all our camping trips I booked earlier in the year were cancelled due to the virus as the parks didn't reopen until the middle of June. We were supposed to go away to one park where I had booked a rental cabin in May. As this was cancelled I was given the choice to rebook with an extra night later in the season and this one I managed to do for last weekend. We went to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to check out some of the Autumn colours. We usually try to do this each year and I'm glad this, at least, wasn't cancelled. I must admit I felt really safe at the campsite - you're away from other people (which is partly why we like to go lol). 

Here are a couple of phone photos from our trip.

This is Miner's Castle from the overlook. It was really pretty!

This is a rare photo of me lol. It was taken by hubby at the Cut River Bridge. Really beautiful colours. I don't think the trees get lie that where we are. There were so many different colour trees. 

Weekend/Decluttering Update

Thanks for all the encouragement on the decluttering of books. It's going fairly well. I am going with the flow and am finding some a lot easier to get rid of than others, but each little bit counts.

I have officially declared August as Book Decluttering month. I've been in a bit of a funk lately - haven't talked about it much - but I was supposed to leave on Friday (rescheduled trip) to visit Mum for six weeks. Unfortunately the flights were cancelled and as the quarantine order is still in effect the trip has been put on hold indefinitely. I am trying not to think about it too much as I just feel like crying. Some others on here have left comments before about being in the same boat so I know others understand. It's really tough being so far away from an aging parent and not knowing whether you will see one another again.

Deep Breath.

Anyway, so as I am going to be stuck here for a while I have decided that I will be using the time to do something...well, useful. I am going to sort out stuff (mainly books) but other things too. I have a goal in mind and I am using that to motivate myself.

As I was feeling a little down this weekend (and it was hot) husband and I decided to take a drive to the National Wildlife Refuge a couple of hours away and do the Wildlife Drive a couple of times. I was hoping to see pelicans and I did! They were beautiful to watch. There aren't many seen in Michigan but we had seen some here last year when we went. When we passed by the area where we had seen them last year we saw only two. I was happy to see them, but wishing there were more. Sure enough, another mile or two later and there were loads!

What a beautiful sight! On our second go around the wildlife drive some of them had broken away and were fishing. It was amazing to watch. They fish as a collective and push the fish into the middle of them and then they feed.

It was absolutely beautiful to watch and well worth the drive!

So now it's Monday again - back to the sorting. I sold three 'lots' of 10 books each over the weekend so they will be out of the house tomorrow. Yeah!

Weekend

We avoided the shops as much as possible this weekend and instead got out for a couple of walks. Yesterday we took a trip to the local bird sanctuary. They have some rescue birds and some wild birds. We fed the swans and ducks (the place sells corn) and then took a walk around the lake.

We had time after that to take another quick walk at a nearby park before I had to Skype Mum.

Today we got up early and were out at the lake bright and early. It was already quite busy despite being cold. They have cancelled church services in a lot of places and it seems as though everybody was outside instead! There were lots of people out fishing. The car park at one park was packed full of cars with trailers that had pulled boats!  I suppose it was because it was a lovely sunny day so people were taking advantage.

We took a lovely walk along a trail called The Lost Lake trail. We've done this one before but we did it the opposite way this time as there is a part that is quite wet and marshy and as the water levels are so high we wanted to make sure it was accessible. It was quite wet but there were board and thick tree branches across the worst parts. We made it to the lake and the water was so high it had covered most of the trail on one side! We did manage to make our way around the other side to the path we needed to go on. Phew!

I hope everyone had a good weekend!