[Rhodes22-list] Happy New Year

[Steve]

Happy New Year, Roger.  This one will be better.
Steve

--- Roger Pihlaja <cen09402@centurytel.net> wrote:
> Deb & I celebrated NYE with some good friends from
> high school.  We went to a Temptations concert at
> the Soaring Eagle Casino in Mt. Pleasant, MI.  After
> the concert, we had a late dinner at a fancy
> restaurant in Mt. Pleasant called the Embers.  Very
> pleasant.
> 
> Daniel & Gary decided to ring in the new year with a
> camping trip.  The southern trailhead to a famous
> long backpacking trail called the Midland/Mackinac
> Trail is only a few miles from our house.  The trail
> begins at the headwaters of the Kawkawlin River. 
> The US Army Corps of Engineers & the MDNR have built
> a small earthen dam & spillway which creates a 200
> acre shallow pond for wildlife habitat.  The trail
> actually crosses the pond on top of this earthern
> dam.  The boys & their friends camped near the pond.
>  To help them celebrate the New Year, I gave them
> several expired distress flares off the boat, which
> they fired off at midnight out over the pond.  They
> didn't bother anyone except perhaps a few Canada
> geese.  Daniel said it got down to about 11 deg F
> this morning!  They got back about 3:00 PM today,
> unpacked, took a shower, got something to eat, &
> promptly went to sleep.  I don't think there was
> much sleeping last night.
> 
> 2002 was a pretty tough year for my family.  I, for
> one, am not sorry to see it pass into history.  I
> hope your 2002 was a good one & wish everyone a
> happy & prosperous 2003.
> 
> Roger Pihlaja
> S/V Dynamic Equilibrium  
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