Saturday Farmers' Market and Coffee Style. . .

A rather more casual look yesterday (Saturday) than usual, but perfect for a late morning out with the Grand Duchess to visit the local farmers' market. She treated me to a coffee at a locally owned bookstore after the fact and we managed to kill a couple of hours talking about this and that and catching up in general.

It's odd, but I don't recall that my grandparents' or parents' lives were quite so overly packed with needless activities during the week during the 1970s and 80s when I was a child and young person still at home. Has the rise of personal technology during the last 30-odd year and always needing to be "on" done this to us?

At the risk of being told I am somewhat mistaken, or just flat out wrong, I'll stick my head out nevertheless and answer my own question with a resounding "Yes." Maybe all of that email, text messages, and the like can wait until Monday. Or we triage that communication and decide that some (most?) of it can be safely ignored. Jeeze Louise.

Attire-wise, the usual weekend suspects although that flannel shirt (L.L. Bean) is a recent birthday gift from my son the Young Master. Not visible is a navy and green ribbon belt, which of course held up the brown corduroy jeans.

Still warm enough yesterday (low 50s Fahrenheit) to go sockless as is my wont although I pulled on a pair of athletic socks with lawn shoes for work in the yard during the latter half of the afternoon. Good thing too as it grew chilly once the sun began to drop after about 4:30pm.

-- 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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