March 25, 2023

 Saturday March 25, 2023

Blog time 1250 sitting in office

Up this morning at 0700. Quickly dressed and headed to “The Gathering Place” for breakfast.  The temperature was 32 with a very heavy rain.

“The Gathering Place” was not very busy this morning, the weather? Ordered our standard Saturday breakfast.  We ate, talked and watched it rain.  

After breakfast we took a short ride.  The rain had changed to a snow/rain mix.  The roads were getting slippery.  Stopped at Panera for our free coffee.  We also split a croissant.  Love croissants.  It was a treacherous ride home.

1130, Cook Valley’s maintenance man stopped by.  He worked about an hour getting our drain cleaned.  We spent another hour getting all the stuff we had to move to accommodate the cleaning.

This and that:

The Alpena Community College won their first baseball game in 50 years.

A high school class mate Russ Bates passed away yesterday.

The San Diego State’s BB coach got his picture in theAlpena News.  Coach Dutcher was born in Alpena. As everyone knows his Grandmother was my Sunday School teacher.

The Iraq war was started 20 years ago.  Big mistake.  For this reason I did not vote for President Bush’s reelection.

The Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis, are visible in Northern MI.

The rain/snow mix continued all day.  Bummer

Took a short nap.

Nancy and I had a bad case of Cabin Fever.  So for dinner tonight we drove to Panera.  We both had a bowl of soup with a baguette.  Hit the spot.

Tonight we watched we watched the final episode of “Happy Valley”.  Good show.

Checked outside at 2200.  I saw two skunks on the path.  Rain will end tonight.