Rose Lake

As I sit on the dock at Rose Lake, face turned upward toward the sun, seagulls & dragon flies vying for air space above me, birds chirping in the woods nearby, I am surrounded by peace and solitude. It is here I find wellness of soul.

Earlier while jetting around the lake with Rudy on my lap, the stillness overpowering the noise of the jet ski, I am in awe of God's perfect presence. The water clear as glass, the sky void of clouds, a few fishermen enjoying the quiet of the morning, combined with the exhilarating speed of my small yellow boat, remind me it is here I find my stillness, my rest.

Later, the thrill of speeding across the lake (while in awe of the mirror image the clouds make on the water--puffy like cotton balls against the blue sky) sustains my own personal stillness. Other boaters come out to play and make large waves I pretend are mountains; and as I scale them slowly and carefully, I am wrapped in the warmth of their splashes.

My spirit is once again renewed at Rose Lake.

Frankenmuth

Wow! Time passes quickly, and I haven't even added a post about our trip to Frankenmuth, Michigan 8/3 & 8/4. It was a wonderful get away for us and something we had planned to do for years. We took Rudy along, and he was a perfect little gentleman eating up all the attention he got from passersby.

Frankenmuth is filled with shops & restaurants . . . I enjoyed shopping, Steve enjoyed some good German food, and we all enjoyed the riverboat ride. The weather was perfect, it wasn't very crowded, and the pet-friendly motel provided us with a clean, roomy room. I had the wonderful opportunity to dance the polka . . . not with my husband, but with an 80+ year old man who made me look good at something I hadn't done in 40 years!

"Where's The Sheet"

I'm sure most of you remember the Wendy's commercial where the old lady says "Where's the Beef?" The question I'm asking myself these days is "where's the sheet?" It seems I misplaced a white fitted sheet yesterday after stripping the beds. I laundered the whites yesterday as well, and when I gathered the sheets to put back on the beds, one fitted bottom was missing. I looked here and there, back and forth, high and low, and it was nowhere to be found. I finally decided to just go ahead and make up one of the beds so that much would be finished. It was in the completion of that task that I found the other white fitted sheet . . . yep, there were two white fitted bottom sheets under the blankets. At least I'm not still looking for it.