Lake Michigan

Sadly, the end of summer is near. What have you been doing to fill up your time in the sun? I've been doing some golfing (more bad than good), bonfires, lawn maintenance, marathon Pictionary sessions, beer drinking (I guess this applies to any season), tanning, pool lounging, Lake Michigan sunset watching, Tigers baseball watching (thank god it's nearly over), weekending in TC, grilling (though my wife mans the grill), and sleeping without any covers. I had some pictures from Arbutus Lake in TC to post last time, but for some reason couldn't get them to work. Here are a few a month and a half after the fact.


No one else seems to care for this one, but I kinda like it


Everybody seems to like this one though; its my current desktop image as well


Just as a storm is rolling in


Stumps

And to show off the contrast of colors, the top one is from the summer and the bottom one is fall:




Things have been going pretty well at work the last few months, now that it is just my business partner and I running things. We haven't hired anyone yet, so the workload can get taxing at times, but our profits are steadily increasing. We've given ourselves a pretty significant raise, and yet are still paying out less than we did when it was three of us. The only problem is there isn't anyone to cover for us, so time off is now comes at a premium. My wife and I booked plane tickets to San Diego for a week vacation months before the business ownership shifted from 3 to 2 partners, and it will be a bit of a stressful week for my partner at the end of September. We've tried to plan ahead, to make things go smoother at work that week, but it really just boils down to how busy we get, and there just isn't really any way to tell how it will be until that week comes.

San Diego you say? Yeah, my wife and I are going out to California for a week to visit my (our) best friend in, who is in the Marine Corps and stationed there. He's got leave for that week and plans to play tour guide for the area for us (he's been out there for about a year now). He's got the local watering hole scene down pat, and plans to get us out surfing. Though after "Shark Week" on Disc. channel my wife plans on staying out of the ocean. I plan and grabbing a ton of photos and it looks like we'll be able to catch a Padres game while we're there.

After this trip I'll have visited 9 states overall. (Technically 12, but Texas, Kentucky and Missouri don't count, they were just layovers from past flights.)

I've been to the red states below and DC (except CA, yet).



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Have you heard about the Football pick'em tournament here at TV.com? IM, Tommy, and fish are already in on the action, but anybody else who might happen to read this is welcome to join in the fun. Just post in the linked thread to let 123home123 know you want in and he'll send you the info.

That's all for now. I've already done some golfing today, and later I'm headed out for some beer drinking/bonfire fun. Take it easy.