Sorry I haven’t blogged for the past week. Anita and I took a vacation trip to Saugatuck, Michigan. I took along my computer and intended to post daily blogs. However, I apparently have such great firewall protection on that thing that it wouldn’t recognize the server at our cottage. So, I had to just sit around and hope you would not get out of the habit of checking this blog daily.

Saugatuck is a port city on the Kalamazoo River, just a mile or so inland from Lake Michigan. Our cottage was located right on the banks of the Saugatuck Bay (a widening of the river formerly used for Lake Michigan ship traffic). Today it is largely a tourist place with a lot of quaint little gift shops, eating establishments, and cottages and motels. School had already started in many places, so the population was mostly older or childless.

My diet was hard to maintain at a place like that and we had to have my favorite ice cream (Butter Pecan) daily. I’m sure I’m going to have to lose a few pounds now that I’m back. But, we did have a restful time and experienced a few adventures, which I’ll recount this week if you haven’t given up on this blog yet. Its good to be back home where I can sleep in my own bed and watch my own TV.