July Recap

In a few hours it'll be August! July up here was very pleasant, perfect summer days. Warm days and cooler evenings. From our road trip we picked up fresh strawberries at a roadside stand, so I made strawberry shortcake, which made a perfect breakfast one ordinary work day.

We even managed to have a beach day. Not often the conditions are beach worthy around here. Air and water have to be warm enough, and also bugs can't be swarming all over to bite us. On such rare occasions we are starting to appreciate the magic of a sandy beach.

We've been enjoying yakiniku a couple of times a week. Such simple cooking, yet so tasty and satisfying!

Joe even hasn't gone fishing much, avoiding a bug season. Last Sunday we went to Apple Creek and actually had lots of small and medium size fish chase after our lures. It was such a fun fishing trip, we were glad we went.

So that's pretty much our recap of July. We both worked hard, yet looking back, we had some summer fun as well as some friends and family time. As I type, Joe is getting ready to leave for Denver early tomorrow morning on a week-long business trip. Here's our hoping for a good start to August!

A Little Bit of Adventure

It was already a week ago... but last Friday we played hooky and went for a drive. Joe actually took a day off from work, first in many month. We hopped into his truck and drove. Our first destination was the highest point in Michigan. We had no idea what to expect, but there was a road all the way up, with some bumps. Probably more meaningful if we had done the 11 mile hike. Then we drove out to Agate Beach. Joe always wanted to check it out. Well, we only found a couple of small agates. Still it was fun to be on a new stretch of lakeshore on a work day!

On our way back for dinner I got to taste my very first drive-in burger experience.

Our food was served on a car window tray! They had very good classic sodas, I imagine, like going back to the 50's. All in all, we had a good day on the road, a much needed adventure.

Lastly, this week I lost my grandmother juts before her 90th birthday. I wished we had been able to travel to Japan in 2020 to see her one last time....  So we had Japanese BBQ to honor her life. And it was a good yakiniku session!