September 20 Following a morning run, we met and had breakfast at the Horizon Book store. This place gained national attention two years ago in a situation involving the Harper Lee novel called “Go Set a Watchman”, discovered and released after the author’s death to major hoopla. When it was quickly discovered that the novel had essentially no redeeming qualities, this store agreed to buy back every copy it had sold. It has also gained our admir...

September 18 After a delightful 4 day stay with us, the Prices moved on today, heading first to Mackinac Island. It was really a pleasure having them with us. We enjoyed a nice noodle bowl lunch in town at a place called Gaijin, then went home, changed, and headed back to Interlochen for another symphony concert at Corson Hall. This was the second week of George Gershwin, today featuring the Cuban Overture followed by American in Paris. After intermission, we wer...

September 16 Today was our wine tasting day! We headed out onto the Old Mission Peninsula and drove north to the tip of the peninsula to the lighthouse.   From there we stopped at the 2 Lads Winery and enjoyed a tasting of five of their wines.    There is an extremely vibrant wine industry in this area. It sits on the 45th parallel as do other famous wine areas in the world, such as Burgundy in France.  Our next stop was lunch in a small restaurant, followed...

September 13 A fair amount of rain today, so we looked for indoor activities. First, I did a workout at our Fitness Center. Then, after lunch, we visited the Denno Museum on the campus of Northwestern Michigan College, just a mile or so from our condo. This turns out to be a very interesting place with a lot of emphasis upon people from Arctic Canada called Inuit. Many of their artists come from an area called Cape Dorset. They employ a wide variety of techniques...

September 11 Took a nice long walk along the lakefront on this sunny day. The plan for today was to return to Interlochen to attend a George Gershwin concert performed by the Traverse City Symphony orchestra. The concert began at 3 PM, but we went early so I could have a look at the place where I spent two summers in 57 and 58, the Intermediate Boys Division. I dropped Rita off at the theater, then drove to visit this location. It had changed almost not at all fr...