Daily Archives: 07/06/2009

(Community Matters) Signs the GOP is losing control of teabaggers.

(Community Matters) Speaking of Ford Motor Company, its former President and the former Defense Secretary during the Vietnam War just died at 93yo – an extraordinarily brilliant & complicated man.

(Community Matters) Ross Douthat in the NYTimes – Palin & Her Enemies

(Community Matters) Dave’s a 4th grade teacher from Troy


His grandparents first vacationed at the Lakeside Inn Resort

His parents honeymooned here

Grew up running all over the place with the founders’ grandson during the summers

That grandson is now the owner

Dave’s just waiting for his kids to wake up to go out fishing

(Community Matters)

(Community Matters) in The Nation

(Community Matters) A few more pics. Can’t believe I forgot to take my camera with us on the boat last night. We parked on the water, down the lake near Whitehall/Montague for the July 4th fireworks.

boat dock/fishing pier at Lakeside Inn

he’s peddling awfully hard to make it up the incline from boat launch
maybe Steven and I should have adopted kids. my heart sings just seeing ’em

Steven on our balcony

path from Inn to Rudy’s

also called turtle alley, shards of turtle eggs after a fox or skunk has dug ’em up

looking down path from Rudy’s

Last night, received a Facebook note from our cousin, Dave Tomlinson that the family was in St. Joseph’s, MI visiting Mike, Tracy & the girls. So . . . . of course we had to drive down and see them this morning

Mike, Tracy & the girls

David & Steven

Uncle Bob

the girls

After our visit, I dropped Steven in Grand Rapids where he’s attending the Poets, Prophets and Preachers Conference,