Not from around here

We have the politest trick-or-treaters EVER. Not a one walked across the lawn to get to our door; they all took the longer way with the driveway, almost like someone TAUGHT them to do that. It was amazing. Not that we cared if they walked on our lawn, but very impressive manners.

 Annie wore pink angel wings and begged for candy she can’t have greeted kids. Hubby and I sat on the front porch for a while and handed out candy with her. It was all really too cute.

In the past week, I’ve been to Dundee twice and neither trip did I make time for Cabela’s. Can you believe that? I can hardly believe I’ve lived here over a year and had just now gone to Dundee! I guess I always thought it was further away, but no, just over 20 minutes (ok, so I speeded a bit).

Anyway, for the first trip there was no time for Cabela’s since we were going to a Sunday evening wake for a friend’s mum. The second trip, though, bears no excuse. We went to my first corn maze in Dundee, right behind Cabela’s. I think it’s called Farmer J’s? We went around 9pm with ginormous flashlight in hand. Out of the 18 checkpoints, we did the first five smoothly and then things went horrendously down hill. An hour and a half later we emerged, having walked probably more than half the maze so a good few miles in the dark. It was a lot of fun. Afterwards we wanted to find a Big Boy-like place to have some dessert and rehydrate but there wasn’t much, so we ended up at Applebees. I definitely reccomend corn mazes, especially in the dark! Good times.

GNOCCI

Another Kroger, another last box of gnocci. No more.

LIFE

…is good. We took a motorcycle safety course a few weeks ago at Schoolcraft Community College and it was fantastic; our only regret was that we hadn’t pulled our act together enough this summer to take one of the ones offered at MCCC. That and the fact that I was super excited about getting a bike and riding it on Monroe country-ish roads until I learned that not only do most accidents take place during the first 6 months someone is riding, but that the increase in accidents on country roads is astounding. Guh, that stinks.

Oh, and if you see a bulldog walking around with a Michigan shirt today, that’s my Annie sporting my lastest Target discounted find. Go blue!