So much has happened since the last time I wrote, but I’ve been too busy and too exhausted to write until now.
Continue readingFall Fest
We are in peak color for autumn, so Mark and I went leaf-peeping for our date today.
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Several of you asked me about the driver who drove off the ferry dock in Northport around 7:30 last Thursday. He was a 74 year old man and he didn’t make it. They got his body and the car out of the water and they’re doing an autopsy to try to figure out what happened, but they don’t believe it was a suicide because he stepped on his brakes before he went over.
Aurora Borealis

Car show
Mark and I are continuing our out-of-the-ordinary dates on weekends. The one in between the barn quilts date, we were going to go to the drive-in theater in Fish Creek for a movie, but they weren’t playing anything that Mark was interested in, so we went to a movie theater in Sturgeon Bay instead and watched the movie Reagan. Yesterday, we both played hooky from church and went to a car show down in Sturgeon Bay.
Continue readingBarn Quilts
I have been really down this summer. You can blame it on grief over Dad’s passing, but it just seems like everything has been a disappointment. I just didn’t feel like writing much or doing much. I think I’m beginning to get my head above water this week. Mark and I recently decided we would have an unusual date every weekend. Today, we drove around Door County looking for barn quilts.
Continue readingThe Antique Tractor Show
There is an annual event at the Liberty Grove Historical Society in Ellison Bay that I vend at. I have a booth for The Longest Day, the fundraising branch of the Alzheimer’s Association. The was the weekend for the event and I was there all weekend.
Continue readingSetting a record
I had COVID-19 and was off work all last week, so I was a little bit weak when I started back to work at the Welcome Center yesterday. Today was my day to work at the Noble House and it was raining, so there were two possibilities for how my day might go. It could either be quiet because no one was out in the rain, or it could be busy because everyone wanted to do something indoors. I was hoping it would be quiet.
Continue readingAlmost there
I thought the bathroom remodel would be finished last weekend, but there are still some small details to add, so hopefully it will be done this coming weekend.
Continue reading4th of July weekend
The last few days have been just about more fun than I can stand! First, there was the 4th of July with our J-1 kids, and Zak has also been doing more work on our bathroom.
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