Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-35319541-20180522220930/@comment-35379880-20180523003110

I have spent the day on a SN crafting marathon and watching Netflix and just opened this wiki. I live in Michigan. At this point I would use my handy portable map to show you where, but I can’t do that here. So hold up your left hand with the palm facing away from you. I live where the thumb meets the hand at the base of the ‘pointer’ finger. We also have 4 distinct seasons with winter being horribly long theses last two years. There is a good-sized river running through the middle of our town and four draw bridges. Both sides of the river are predominately parks and summer tends to be an unending series of festivals. The biggest is Fourth of July with three nights of fireworks, concerts, and a carnival.

We live in easy distance af many beaches, some nice, some mucky messes. Ice fishing is a big deal in the winter and I still don’t understand the desire to sit in the freezing cold with my fishing line down a hole in the ice.

We are a midsize town with several oth towns nearby an farmland, with a bit of woods, around the towns. Our main crop is sugar beets. The sugar factories stink! When the wind is right the whole town has the smell. It has gotten better during our years here, but is still awful.

We are also one of the few areas where housing prices have not recovered. I have a huge old home on a small lot and would be thrilled if I could sell it for even close to what I paid 16 years ago, and we got a good deal. New jobs tend to be low wage and many people make less now than they did ten years ago. The

We have a really good community college and several universities within driving distance. Like Lola’s neighborhood, it takes some work to get to know the neighbors. We chat, but don’t really know each other. I think it’s easier when neighbor families have younger children.

The best part of living here is that my two youngest grandchildren are only about 20 minutes away. My older grandson is over 2000 miles away, so I don’t really know him. We moved here from west Texas about 19 years ago and it was a good choice. I would like to move even closer to my grands in the near future.