1. Lake Michigan is one cold motherf- Shut yo' mouth!
We went to the beach again for Randy's birthday at the end of July, more than a month later in the summer than we went with Abby. We were really looking forward to it, especially because it was a really hot day and we thought the water would be nice and cool and refreshing. Nope. The water was, if possible, more frigid than it was in mid-June. So we sat on the beach until we were sweating, then we stood in the water until we couldn't feel our legs. Repeat as necessary. (Overall, it was a good time, just rather more punctuated with temperature extremes than was perhaps ideal.)
2. Annexation and cattails are the big news in our neighborhood.
We went to our first neighborhood association meeting last week. The good news is that we've got very friendly neighbors. The bad news is that no one really knows anything about whether or not our neighborhood will be annexed by the city of McHenry, and no one really knows how much it will cost to send the cattails in our lake (which have been proliferating as the water level in the lake drops) to sleep with the fishes, but it didn't stop anyone from expressing an opinion about either thing, sometimes in great detail.
3. The UPS Customer Center in Palatine should be avoided on Friday nights.
We missed the delivery of Randy's new phone (e-mail him if you need his new cell phone number and don't have it), and we weren't going to be home during the "We'll try again on..." time, either. So we drove out to Palatine, figuring we'd be able to run in, grab the package, and head right back home. Um, no. The line to retrieve packages was probably 20 people long, and we waited for more than 30 minutes. I shudder to imagine holiday-length lines.
4. Mowing goes a lot faster when most of the grass is dead.
See also water level in lake, dropping of.
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When we were little our neighborhood meetings were called Circle-T. Everyone would bring food and then the kids were allowed to run free in the neighborhood while the adults talked over business. In seemed all adult and secret when I was little but eventually we found out it was mostly about lake moss and street lights.
UPS customer service leaves much to be desired.
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