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For No Particular Reason, Twenty Things About Brian :)

For no reason at all I thought I would make a list of Brian facts. Some common knowledge, some little known :) 1.  He is a political activist from his youngest days. 2. His highest weight ever was 140 (fat boy! lol!) 3. He loves chocolate malts and eats maybe 6 in a year. 4. He at least half built a five bedroom, 5.5 bath home in Minnetrista where he lived for over a decade with his second wife. 5. He has been an intense outdoorsmen. Kayaking on Superior, trips into the BWCA alone for 10 days at a time. The Brian of hotel suites is very much a phenom of his recent years. 6. He hates most travel, but always lived to go up North. WE make multiple trips each year, and Grand Marais is our second home. 7. He has never stopped eating fish and eggs, and would generally partake in poultry if so offered. 10. Brian grew up in Hopkins, finished high school in California, and went to collage there for awhile too. Yup, he was 18 - 20 in L.A. in the late sixties. 11. Brian was...

Just Being

It's been a whole month since I posted. In that time, we went on a houseboat trip for an intended three nights, but did just one and hot a wonderful resort in Ely called Burntside. LOVED that place! We had a beach side cabin and one of the most beautiful nights ever where we just sat out til past dark and grilled and watched the water. We actual had two nights at the resort, and the first one it was poring rain but we went to their wonderful restaurant. The resort is so cool in part because it has been operating since 1914. It features no TV, no wireless, just an Up North kind of experience in a beautiful setting. Our next trip, about two weeks later we went to Hoveland, MN and stayed in a fabulous house and ignored the TW and just soaked up the lake. We spent a lot of time just listening to and looking at Lake Superior, talking, having drinks, being with our dogs. Just being. Our last trip was just this past weekend, and my mom was with. We had this beautiful bedroom with a d...