First of all, this pic was taken by my forever BFF Sam. It is the courthouse in Napoleon Ohio. The GG and I drove past it a few years ago and I wanted to get a pic but I didn’t quite manage it. She and her hubby jcb (aka the Guru who hosts my website) were driving the back roads through Ohio today and when she texted to say they were in Napoleon for lunch, I begged for a pic of the courthouse. And she obliged. So photo credit to Sam.

They took us out for dinner at Dexter’s Pub and we made sure to drive them past the cider mill. It’s closed at this time of year but she remembers visiting it as a child, when her family drove from south of Lansing to Dexter on day trips. She has a beautiful pic of it on her blahg.

I met my Sam on Radical Betty’s back deck a million years ago. At that time she was my cousin’s Jay’s friend and when I first met her, I thought she was wonderful but I didn’t realize she would become my best friend in life. We were both going to college at MooU and our families both owned property in the yooperland and I guess she came to a party at my apartment in East Lansing and I don’t remember the exact party but apparently things went from there and here we are.

I’m thinkin’ the first time the GG met Sam was at a party at Pooh and Mark’s apartment on Seventh Street on The Planet Ann Arbor. I don’t remember much about that except that the GG said something like it was a good thing finding that Sam. Yes it was.

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