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ABOVE Hessel. Mackinac Bay from Hessel Point; Lone Susan Island is on the left.


M A Y   8 ,   2 0 0 4

Chilly, grey.
Many and many birds -- it is still early spring in the upper peninsula of Michigan and the birds and animals are rejoicing over the recent thaw.

A whole flock of chicadees chased each other around the point, alighting here and then there, and then swooping off en masse to a different stand of trees. By the garden. In front of the cabin. Back below the cars. Off near the dock. And then back. It was often quiet enough to hear them land, and the clicking was nearly constant.

An eagle from Lone Susan Island soared overtop. Large crows cackled and clacked to each other.

I saw a loon in the morning off the dock and around the little point. Later, from the kayak over in the first cut, I heard one cry. They are far more plentiful in Minnesota, but I love to hear them.

Several mallards looked to be checking out the neighborhood.

Five or six swans were riding the waves back in Mackinac Bay. Twice I watched one take off from the water -- massive wings flapping and slapping the water, feet running ungainly atop the surface, it didn't seem certain to make it aloft.

A piliated woodpecker knocked at the tops of dead and vacant trees. Seagulls swooped and congregated and chatted on the rocks just offshore. They had eaten perhaps halfway through a large dead and rotting carp under the back dock of Cassidy House.

Dad & I had walleye fillets from Pammi's restaurant (the former Dog House) for lunch (and dinner -- it was a large basket). Pammi has purchased the Channel Marker restaurant in downtown Cedarville and plans to keep both open.

We looked at where some dead trees that had been taken down, and I scrabbled some more dirt away from the pine stump closest to the cabin that he want to cut out.

 

 

ABOVE Hessel. The lamp from San Antonio now adorns the mantel in Hessel.


M A Y   7 ,   2 0 0 4

To Hessel

Driving under I-270 did not give me that usual feeling of escape, of freedom, of endless possibilty that I love when heading up north. Looking across acres of farms and far off into the distance driving up U.S. 23 left me feeling circumscribed, penned in.

This slowly dissipated around Toledo -- night fell, and perhaps the darkness opened up dreams of a wider horizon.

Traffic was very heavy and kept my mind focused tight in -- I never did register the splits around Ann Arbor.

There was no fog anywhere. It was a very black night, and north of Saginaw (and passing by midnight) the traffic disappeared and I had the road to myself.

I took M-134 (coming up on 3 a.m.) at around 45 mph and saw deer silhouetted against the woods on both sides. Something else in the opposite lanes that I can only guess might have a been a bear cub -- certainly not a full-grown bear, it nonetheless had the dark fur and mass of a bear.

 

Panera.
Met with Darrek over lunch.

 

 


M A Y   6 ,   2 0 0 4

Choir rehearsal.
Bexley afterwards.

 

 


M A Y   5 ,   2 0 0 4

Tour meeting.
Then to Bexley, then back to finish up the newspaper layout. The jumps benefitted considerably from the break.

 

 


M A Y   4 ,   2 0 0 4

Birthday colors.
Pantone

Woodrose -- May 16


Purple sage-- December 17

 

 

Met with Jeff.
To look at the roof, shower curtain possibilities.

 

Where's the leadership?
The war president's war is in trouble. The U.S. appears to have tortured Iraqi prisoners at one of Saddam Hussein's most notorious prisons. And -- there are pictures. Andrew Sullivan feels the president ought to personally inspect the prison and vouch for the investigation. I think even just a speech from the U.S. would help. But please something. Something to indicate that this is important, worrisome, horrible, ...

Too busy to be bothered by such trivialities, the war president is riding a bus around Ohio, campaigning for reëlection.

 

 


M A Y   3 ,   2 0 0 4

Unpacking.
In Bexley. Mowed the lawn; began to set up the china cabinet.

 

Lifestyles & Living.
Met with editors &c. to examine it's first month.

Needs some work yet.

 

 


M A Y   2 ,   2 0 0 4

Arrival of the baby grand piano.
Davenport-Treacy, New York.

Originally a gift from my grandfather to my grandmother on the day my mother was born.

 

United Van Lines.
Michael and Chip, based out of Chicago, offloaded. Bexley first, then Columbus.

 

Amy to Akron

 

The Lord is my shepherd.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I shall fear no evil
For thou art with me
Thy rod and thy staff
Me comfort still.

 

 

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> APRIL 05 

 

 










 

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