Sunday - July 19

BLAIR is a TEENAGER!

Happy 13th

How did 13 years pass so quickly?    July 19, 2013 was a very memorable day with the birth of Blair Bliss Chamberlain, our first granddaughter after 6 grandsons!    She's a happy, carefree, smart, funny, and very active young lady who loves to dance, act, cheer, do her gymnastics, be crafty with her friends and good friend to all.    She's a joy to be around.

We went to 10:00 Mass at St. Mary's - wow, sooo many people and presided over by Father David Sacha.   Some unique things we had not seen in a very long time - like many years ago, Father had his back to the congregation during Mass instead of facing forward.    Also several part of the Mass were sung in Latin.    He baptized "Patrick" during Mass.

Went to The Coffee Factory, - now we've been in some funky coffee shops (2 recently - Washington Island and Sturgeon Bay) but today here in Muskegon gets the prize.    Very eclectic with unique stuff here, there and everywhere including lots of vintage clothing.    The important stuff - coffee and cheese Danish were right on!!!

Yesterday when we were at the Exchange Coffee Bar, we laughed when we saw this sign  

Obviously for tips, but with the way I've been feeling, it was very appropriate!

On home....some smokey haze today and an alert was issued for the entire state of Michigan.

We took naps (we LOVE our little cat naps, power naps, whatever you want to call them!)

Connor's performance went well last night.   Along with Nate and Drew, they now have the name "The Verdict" - how appropriate after Patrick's band was "Jury's Out"!

Our long-time friends (since the 80s thru the Mid Illini Power Squadron) picked us up for dinner.    Ron and Pat have lived in Muskegon for many years and we've caught up with them a few times over the years when they wintered in Florida.    What fun we had catching up - dinner at the Handsome Hobo was great and we never stopped yakking!

Ron will be 88 next week and Pat will be 89 in a few months

They are truly remarkable and such an inspiration 

Family zoom tonight but missed some off the conversation cause we were

 chatting with Blair.