Under the skies in the Upper Peninsula. Michigan is a state of much extraordinary beauty.
(I'm so glad you like my state! I'm rather fond of it, especially now, in the spring!)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Beholders of this thread would wonder why some people post only one sentence, when the rules state 2. On the other hand, they probably wouldn't notice.
Notice of house rules should be posted prominently by the door. People may still choose to ignore them.
Them! Why would we have anything to do with such terrible snobs?
(I'm so sorry! I-I just didn't know! Mea culpa, mea culpa!...Now heaping ashes upon myself in pennance)
Snobs? Like people who remind you of the rules?
(jus' kiddin')
Rules are made to be broken, Devtigger! So take solace in that fact.
Fact or fiction? I would have loved to live in Michigan.
Michigan is one of those flat states in the middle of America, isn't it? I would pine so far from the sea.
Sea? I love the sea too, but we're right smack in the middle of the Great Lakes, water abounds. See that big mitten there? I'm wavin' to you!
(oh! Is that too many sentences? Will I be punished?! - sing-songing-ly: I'm breakin' the ru-ules!)
Now, I like water myself. I am no more than a 10-minute ride from a lake in town. It's about 1/2 hour to Lake Michigan, the big lake.
Lake Michigan? Do you go often to there?
There I try to go as often as I can. But now I must bid you good night! I hope you get some sleep, from one insomniac to another. Pleasant dreams.
Dreams of French explorers; Cadillac was a Frenchman, so is Michigan a French word, or native American like Gitchee-Gummee? Okay, HWL made it up, but it sounds kinda authentic.
Authentic etymology is often difficult to find. For example, nobody really knows the origin of the Hoosier State.
State towns like Milwaukee are Indian, but places like Lansing are not. I'll have to check it up, to-morrow.
Tomorrow is another day. In the afternoon, I am meeting the vicar to talk about the memorial service.
'Service is frightfully poor these days. One gets nothing but a thirty minute queue and false well-wishing.'
Wishing you the joy of it, as Jack Aubrey might have said. What about these answering services which say, "Your call is important to us", rather unconvincingly?
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