We have “droven” Island Lake Road (gravel/dirt) many times and we did it yesterday. We have an EPA retiree luncheon coming up in Chelsea this month and wanted to figger out the location.

On the way to Chelsea (from Dexter), we took Island Lake Road and while we were still on the dirt/gravel part of that road, we spied this log cabin. Somewhere along the northern shore of West Lake, somebody parks a seaplane in front of their house but we didn’t see that yesterday. What we did see was this cabin, one that we have never noticed before.

We think it is old but we don’t really know. It is constructed in a similar way to our family’s Old Cabin but it can’t be as old as *our* Old Cabin, which was built in 1924. It’s a lot smaller. But there’s that rock chimney.

We’ve been watching Andy Griffith reruns lately (before and after the Olympics). Tonight the “bed jacket” episode was on. Again. Aunt Bee sees a fluffy bed jacket in the window of a store and falls in love with it. Her birthday is coming up and she gets canning jars instead. A bunch of horse trading goes on with the mayor and she ends up with the bed jacket, albeit a day late.

I first saw this episode as a child and have seen it a few times since. Bed jacket? My bed clothing is a Smartwool nightshirt and some socks. I get up early in the morning, take a shower and put *clothes* on. Given that Aunt Bee makes breakfast for Andy and Opie, I can’t believe she ever has time to sit around in bed wearing a bed jacket. But whatever.

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