Hunting with Mike

Well I’m going to try this post again.  My daughter Meghan’s computer does not respond the same as mine, and the first blog I did vanished into cyberspace!

My wife and I left from Ann Arbor yesterday around 1:00 p.m. and arrived at Union Station about 5:30 p.m.  We were about a half hour behind schedule, but it was a nice train ride over here.  We saw a couple great looking Tom turkeys, deer, muskrats, sandhill cranes, ducks, geese, and pheasants.  That is quite an array of the wild bounty Michigan has to offer.  It was actually cheaper for us to take the train than drive, and of course a lot less hectic.

Once we arrived in Chicago, we had to wait a few minutes for Meghan, who was tied up in traffic!  She lives an hour away from downtown, but getting to her place took almost two hours.  Highway 94 is under construction, and only two lanes are open, which makes 30 mph seem like your speeding.  About an hour after arriving, we received a phone call from the local fire department advising us to” take cover!”  A tornado had been spotted in our area, as bad weather rolled through all evening.  Meghan and Mark don’t have a basement, and trying to get my wife, daughter, grandson, and my “chubby” little self into a small hall closet, just wasn’t going to work.  If needed, I was going under the stairs, with the furnace and water heater for company.  

Mark is over in Baldwin Michigan riding dirt bikes with some of his college friends, or maybe they are “mudding!”  Mark will be on his way home today, and has to watch out for the “nasty” weather moving across Michigan.  

I haven’t figured out how to post any pictures yet, but I’m working on it.  I’ll tell ya this “Thank God I’m a country boy!”  You couldn’t pay me enough money to live in the big city, and put up with this traffic on a daily basis.  Just give me a small close knit community, or a little cabin on the back 40, and I’m a happy camper.  There’s enough glitz and glamour in Gods creation to last me a lifetime, and I never get tired of the beauty and complexity of the natural world.

Mike 

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