Sunshine Tuesday
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 7:37 amorning everyone. Bit chilly here this morning. 43°, but heading into 70’s. We’ve been having perfect weather these past three days. Sunday was partly cloudy and windy, but nice light jacket or sweatshirt weather. Highs were in low 70’s but wind made it cooler. Definitely fall weather here. Good working outside weather.
Labor Day is over and the exodus south is done. Still some heading out today. The traffic on I-75 was heavy yesterday as people headed home from the second homes, resorts, vacation rentals, campgrounds and communities large and small in the U.P and northern lower.
Some have taken their boats out for the season at their second homes and some who spend summers up here have closed up their cottages and returned to their permanent homes till next year. Tourist season is over and those of us who live in major tourist areas, can now enjoy our roads, lakes, forests, communities and life in general without the influx of people and traffic until next year. It will be quiet till fall color season, but that’s mostly a weekend thing for those who come up to see it. There will be seniors and retirees traveling around but nothing like the summer months.
Barbie, glad your car is fixed and you are back home. Pace yourself now. Little by little you will get er done and be on the road. Beth, new phone carrier you are trying may be using the same cell towers as the biggies, but they might be limited as to how much service they can send out or being Interferred by the big companies signals overriding them. Or somewhere down in tbe fine print, Stating you get cut down during peak times who knows.
Judy, I have a suggestion for you since Jasper is out. If you don’t have to back track to Calgary, why not continue west on the Trans Canada highway to Vancouver. There is some beautiful scenery aiong that route including YoHo National Park next to Banff. You could route yourself down to WA since you are heading to OR anyway. Worth the trip in my opinion. That was an interesting conversation you had regarding Native culture. We did same in our trip to AK as well and I had one at the Custer battlefield in MT too.
The history of the white mans treatment of the Native Americans is one of greed and superiority over them. Has been that way for centuries. We wanted their land, the minerals and resources that were on it. Never mind that they lived on it for years. We just moved in a took over. When thry fought back to defend their way of Luce, we fought them, and eventually subjected them to our way of life. We tried to eradicate their culture. And yes, stories of removal, abuse, humiliation of children to and in boarding schools has really come to life including here in MI. There was a Catholic boarding school here in our Diocese, the which of stories of how the children were treated by the nuns have been coming out. And now the Bishop has been working with the troubles to advance their culture and mend broken fences as much as can be. Time heals wounds, but memories will last forever. In time, those affected will pass on, but their stories will remain. There has been a lot of interest in Native American culture these days and we stand a lot to learn from them. I sometimes think tnis country wouldn’t be in the environmental state it’s in if we had learned to respect our resources as they did back then. . I could go on and on, but that’s a whole other story.
Right now I need to get dressed and get the trash out. Being a holiday they didn’t pick up yesterday, so they have our area and today’s area to pick up, so never know what time they will come. They have lots of miles to cover in this township, plus trips back and forth to the landfill when the truck is full. And I want to work out by my flagpole and set the edgers I bought yesterday in place before it gets to sunny out there.
Labor Day is over and the exodus south is done. Still some heading out today. The traffic on I-75 was heavy yesterday as people headed home from the second homes, resorts, vacation rentals, campgrounds and communities large and small in the U.P and northern lower.
Some have taken their boats out for the season at their second homes and some who spend summers up here have closed up their cottages and returned to their permanent homes till next year. Tourist season is over and those of us who live in major tourist areas, can now enjoy our roads, lakes, forests, communities and life in general without the influx of people and traffic until next year. It will be quiet till fall color season, but that’s mostly a weekend thing for those who come up to see it. There will be seniors and retirees traveling around but nothing like the summer months.
Barbie, glad your car is fixed and you are back home. Pace yourself now. Little by little you will get er done and be on the road. Beth, new phone carrier you are trying may be using the same cell towers as the biggies, but they might be limited as to how much service they can send out or being Interferred by the big companies signals overriding them. Or somewhere down in tbe fine print, Stating you get cut down during peak times who knows.
Judy, I have a suggestion for you since Jasper is out. If you don’t have to back track to Calgary, why not continue west on the Trans Canada highway to Vancouver. There is some beautiful scenery aiong that route including YoHo National Park next to Banff. You could route yourself down to WA since you are heading to OR anyway. Worth the trip in my opinion. That was an interesting conversation you had regarding Native culture. We did same in our trip to AK as well and I had one at the Custer battlefield in MT too.
The history of the white mans treatment of the Native Americans is one of greed and superiority over them. Has been that way for centuries. We wanted their land, the minerals and resources that were on it. Never mind that they lived on it for years. We just moved in a took over. When thry fought back to defend their way of Luce, we fought them, and eventually subjected them to our way of life. We tried to eradicate their culture. And yes, stories of removal, abuse, humiliation of children to and in boarding schools has really come to life including here in MI. There was a Catholic boarding school here in our Diocese, the which of stories of how the children were treated by the nuns have been coming out. And now the Bishop has been working with the troubles to advance their culture and mend broken fences as much as can be. Time heals wounds, but memories will last forever. In time, those affected will pass on, but their stories will remain. There has been a lot of interest in Native American culture these days and we stand a lot to learn from them. I sometimes think tnis country wouldn’t be in the environmental state it’s in if we had learned to respect our resources as they did back then. . I could go on and on, but that’s a whole other story.
Right now I need to get dressed and get the trash out. Being a holiday they didn’t pick up yesterday, so they have our area and today’s area to pick up, so never know what time they will come. They have lots of miles to cover in this township, plus trips back and forth to the landfill when the truck is full. And I want to work out by my flagpole and set the edgers I bought yesterday in place before it gets to sunny out there.
