Highlights of the summer of 2019...

• Brother Barry and crew manned the fort and took such good care of Mom...what a relief!
• New refrigerator 
• Floyd’s new horns...though he did get in trouble more than once for unwarned honking!
• Museum at Whitefish Point with great artifacts from Edmond Fitzgerald
• Lunch buffet at the Grand Hotel, Mackinaw Island 
• Charlevoix with the Bemis crew!
• Mobile groomer came to Leland...
• Frankfort with Shanna banana 
• All those calls to Saugatuck Marina mechanic and still no batteries or work!! And no shopping!
• Meeting up with Janet and Laurie in Chicago
• Attending Hamilton and cheering for the Cubs...front and center....I ❤️ Chicago...
• Rainstorm and grocery shopping timing...we didn’t get wet
• Boat visit from Ben Stien and Laura...solving our electrical issue in less than 30 minutes on a Saturday night!
• Seneca and Spring Brook Marina...where new boat batteries happened
• Locking through at 5 AM...what an artery clearing adventure...both times!
• Shopping at Starved Rock
• Laughing at MAD HOUSE II....meeting TARYN AWEIGH
• Wickets down...driving through open locks
• Re-connecting with Larry and Cindy  BUCKET LIST in Grafton
• Cooler temps on the skanky river...who woulda thought the 80s in July were possible??
• Fourteen and a half hour boating day from Kaskaskia to Paducah....and then there was SassySea Sally and TARYN AWEIGH....boating into GTB with them...and hanging out for a while!! 
• GTB slip was even better than we thought 
• Bad haircut for poor Dakota
• New friendships at GTB
• New chairs ordered...bigger in slip patio