Whew! That was Close!

I am falling off my chair laughing.  I just got a message telling me that thanks to someone's service---which I'm probably eager to pay for-----I have 30 new followers.

Heaven forbid!  That's way too much pressure for me!

I will give you a little update, though, as long as I came over here to check on my 30 new followers.

Good Guy and I just had a little touring adventure around Lake Superior, returning yesterday.  We had the best weather, clear and still, so we had great driving conditions and clear views of the scenery.  It's a perfect combo for families that argue about vacation destinations----woods? beaches? mountains?  hunting?  it's all right there.

Of course, I didn't inquire about hunting seasons or how much a license to hunt might cost---but apparently wild game is plentiful.  Though we didn't see any moose or caribou, there were hundreds of signs warning of their presence----possibly on the highway----likely at dusk or after dark.

Most impressive to me was the rock.  Roads are cut through great crags of stone and forests appear to appear out of solid sheer mountainside.  Of course, the Sea of Superior is ever present.  It is amazing that we could drive around it for the whole week, and it is still the same water we enjoy at my brother-in-law's summer place in the Keewenaw Peninsula in Michigan.

I also was impressed at the amount of recognition given to First Nation presence and history along the northern coast of the Lake.  We walked through one park where the signs were in English, French, and the Ojibwa language.

Once we got back across the border and into Minnesota, we left the shore at Silver Bay and headed west toward Ely, where my family spent some time during my growing up years.  There we spent an afternoon and evening with an old friend of my Mom's.  It was a high spot of the week for me.

Getting home is always great too.  So now the laundry is caught up again, and I've answered my e-mail, and life is returning to normal.  (Except for those pesky new followers.)

Also, by the way, the most beautiful leaf color we saw was along the south shore of the lake, and I must confess Michigan had the prettiest hardwoods in oranges, bright reds, and golds.  Just gorgeous!  You've got to love Fall!

Lightening Up

Over the Labor Day weekend, I vowed to organize my workroom. This task consisted of considerable sorting and pitching-------which is a recurring theme around here, but this was a major purge.

I won't bore you with all of it, but the most wrenching, but satisfying thing was getting rid of magazines.  I found the patterns I wanted to save, and I got rid of the rest of the magazine.  I can't believe how good it feels to be rid of them.  I gave away art supplies, presents that creeped me out, paper products, even fabric I'll never use.

That felt so good, I believe I will do some more.

Tomorrow ReStore is coming to relieve us of old furniture and appliances.  I am in no hurry to fill the house with new things either;  I am grateful to them for taking it away.

In an abrupt change of subject, have you ever read the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society?  I have rarely read anything with such winning characters.  I have read it before and gave the book away, but just borrowed it from the digital library to reread it on my Nook.

It was nice to have an escape, while the government decides what is a proper response to the problems in Syria.  I don't pretend to know and that's enough to say.

Time to get going on the further adventures of throwing junk away.  Happy days are here again.