City of Gold

Northwest Michigan had a good dose of lake effect rain showers this past week. The sun would be shining and in would come a 2 minute burst of rain, then sunny again. While driving home the other day, I came upon the attached view so I pulled over (or maybe I didn't pull over...) and got the shot. If you look close, there is a leprechaun sitting on the entrance gates to the town.

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The Donna Tree

the Donna tree

My mom advised that she wanted her ashes to be placed where children play so yesterday Bird and I ventured downstate to the D to help do that with my sister and her family. The Greening of Detroit organization was doing a tree planting near a recreation center (lot of trees planted) so we had a tree planted in my mom's name with her ashes helping fill in the soil.  

Even in death my mom is helping others.

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Bird was morale dog for the diggers

Names - John and Michael have left the building

While attending the local high school's football game Friday, I was perusing the rosters for the two teams. Very small rosters at that; the visiting team had 19 players listed and it looked like less than that dressed, the home team not many more. My pea brain glanced at the names and one thing jumped out at me, the common names I grew up with (John, Mike, Jim, Jeff, Tom, Dan, Steve, Eric, Al, etc...) seem to be slowly becoming extinct. There is a Tim listed below but he goes by 'Timmy' so he must get his ass kicked quite a bit.

The home team of funky first names took the victory for those keeping score at home.

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