There is a stop sign at the top of the two-track moominroad where it intersects the Birch Point Loop. I don’t think there was a stop sign when I was a kid but there is one now.

Actually, my grandfather and a couple of his friends built the first part of the Birch Point Loop, or so I am told. All of the roads in the area except US2 were gravel in those days and when I was baby, one of my early memories (5 months old) was lying down in the back seat of our old black 1950s era Ford hearing the pine trees susurrate as we approached our family’s Lake Superior shore front land and cabin. That year it was only one cabin, the log cabin my grandfather built. After that, Don and Katie (my uncle and aunt) built their own cabin and eventually (six years later) so did we.

Birch Point Road is now a “loop” and there is enough traffic that a stop sign at the top of Chickadee Road (the cabin road) is necessary. A number of years ago when the family triplets were teenagers, they decorated the stop sign and I took a pic. Journey is not my fave band but it is good enough that I can rock to it. I posted the pic on facebook.

Sometime after that, a facebook friend posted this pic on her timeline or whatever it is. Okay friend, you posted that photo without attributing it to meeee. I like this person but she has a bad habit of posting other people’s pics without telling who took the pic. I was friendly about it but I didn’t let her get away with it.

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