It has been awhile, so time for an update!  Life remains busy for us, mostly things we do to ourselves (Chris would say things I commit to!).   So it seems we are busy all weekends and many nights.   Work remains busy for us both.  So that is a good thing, we have to fund our fun.   Of course the fall is always busy just getting ready for winter.   The boats are out of the water and ready for winter, the boat lift out of the water, dock out, wood stacked, ATV oil changed.  All the fun stuff.

We had the Omro sanitary district merge with the Algoma sanitary district, which quickly found we had a leak letting ground water into the sewer system.  but that is now fixed.  It will just need some more landscape fixing when it settles in spring.

Mom is doing well.   She needs her wheel chair to get around but maintains a good attitude and is happy for company and e-mails.  And always has ideas for what she can change in her apartment or Chris can buy her on line!  Next time we will get her Christmas decorations out, and she has enough to change those every week through January.

I had a permit to deer hunt on Fort McCoy this year, after several years of not being selected.  Good friend Noel also received his permit, and made the trip back from Florida to participate.   Unfortunately we left the deer in the woods, we had been hoping for venison.   But the weather was good and it felt good to be back in the woods again.   And being back in the city of Tomah allowed us to visit some old haunts for supper and a cocktail after a long day in the woods.  Maybe next year!

And for Thanksgiving we made our usual trip to Lower Michigan.   Chris and I saw Mom Wednesday night and then Thursday morning headed out for Saugatuck Michigan.  Skip and Claire were not far behind with niece Denise.    And Mary Jane and John came over from Detroit.  We rented ‘The Red House’, having a house allows us a kitchen for a Thanksgiving meal.  We grilled a turkey, and had ham, potatoes, stuffing, cauliflower and all the trimmings.   The southwestern Michigan towns are very much about relaxing.  Lot’s of small gift shops, restaurants and bars.   And even a couple of breweries mixed in,  Right up my alley.    We had a great time.  And lots of card playing  and game playing.

So now back to the work week.  A homebrew club meeting this week and some house keeping projects.    We hope your Thanksgiving holiday was a good one.   And for those of you out of our country we hope things are well and life is relaxing.  For Chris and I we look forward to a Dec 5 trip to Florida for a long weekend.  Take care!

Noel coming out of the woods!

The Red House

Saugatuck Brewery

Skip, Denise and Chris packing up!