Independence Day 2023 Style. . .

A sunny, breezy summer's day for July 4th here in Totleigh. Very warm, but not oppressively so. Mid to upper 80s F. The Grand Duchess and Young Master took a bike ride mid-afternoon, while yours truly remained at home and worked on the latest episode of my ongoing podcast.

Late in the day, I fired up the Weber grill and prepared hamburgers with grilled vegetables for everyone. We finished with patriotic cupcakes for father and son with a wedge of watermelon for the Grand Duchess before some small fireworks in the driveway.

Sonja and Paul attended a large area fireworks display last weekend, which seems to be a growing trend, at least here in Michigan. Or maybe it's because the holiday falls on a Tuesday this year?

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More of the usual gear today although I broke out my red, white, and blue seersucker shirt to get in the spirit of things. This time, I decided to include a shot of today's ribbon belt.

You could say this kind of thing is my warm weather uniform, but as you might surmise, a uniform makes it very easy to dress without much thought to the process. Open the drawer, pull out, unfold, and put it on. Easy! Especially when you can mix and match most things without difficulty.

-- Heinz-Ulrich

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Up North Style. . .

Bad Dad makes a friend. YMP and Bad Dad on the shores of Lake Michigan. Or was that Crystal Lake? The Grand Duchess takes a selfie in her kayak. How NOT to impress the girls sunning themselves along the river. YMP and Bad Dad kayaking on the Platte River headed toward Loon Lake. J ust back from a week in Northern Michigan in a charming and spacious house on the banks of the Betsie River outside of Thompsonville. A largely pleasant seven days despite some challenging episodes with the Young Master, who has picked up some very questionable habits and language from his friends in the 8th Grade during the school year just ended. But otherwise, we enjoyed ourselves and contemplated remaining for a few days longer since the house was available. In the end, we decided to return home as planned originally since neither my wife, nor I wanted to spend the remaining days chained to our computers in Zoom meetings from our vacation destination. I actually managed to leave the laptop and ip

Mid-June Thursday Style. . .

A nother pretty typical variation on the theme for late spring, summer, and very early fall. I'm a huge fan of Madras and have several such shirts in the seasonal rotation. Lightweight, exceedingly comfortable, and even dressy when pressed and tucked in, which is the usual way of things here at Totleigh in the Wold. Now, if I had my druthers, I'd still rather be skiing the trails in the upper half of "The Mitten" (of Michigan), in the Upper Peninsula, or Ontario. But summers ain't so bad either, and I'd look pretty funny walking around in cross-country ski attire during June. -- Heinz-Ulrich

A Lazy Saturday at the End of June. . .

A sleepy first half of the weekend here at Totleigh. Warmer and quite humid ahead of an approaching cool front here in Mid-Michigan. Perfect for yet another pair of chino shorts an a seersucker shirt -- tucked in of course -- with the usual leather deck shoes and ribbon belt. Otherwise, not much accomplished beyond a page or so of writing and monkeying around with audio settings for an upcoming podcast episode. However, I was not completely useless yesterday! I made a huge fruit salad for dinner, which the Grand Duchess and I enjoyed a short while later at the table on the back porch. The Young Master, as is his wont on Saturday evenings, took his dinner on a tray in the TV room upstairs where he whiled away a couple of hours on Flight Simulator, flying some sort of commercial airliner to some destination across the Atlantic or Pacific. I would have loved that sort of technology at about nine or 10 way back during the late 1970s, aka The Stone Age. As it is, my sister and

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