Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 6:41 PM
Busy weekend with lots of folks enjoying a letter perfect stretch of weather….The sunset cruise goes past Betsie just after 7 and again about sunset….adding something new to your sunset pictures. I was off Betsie this weekend and it was nice to have someone else out there with me. I can chat with them on the radio but I don’t think that I show up on radar….so I have to be careful because I’m invisible (I’m checking to find out the mechanics of this whole Somali thing) ((I’m kidding of course)) This year I’m trying to build a back log of warm pictures to mix in with the January and February ice pictures….

Keep having a good Summer, Jay

Greetings all,

Shortly after noon on Saturday May 2, the archivist cottage, Pilgrim Place, caught fire and suffered medium structural damage and lots of smoke damage. Eleanor Comings and Rick Myers saw the smoke coming from the building and raised the alarm.  The fact that the cottage was closed up tight kept the fire at a low ebb.  It didn’t have the oxygen to fully engulf the building.  It mainly burned straight up.   A wall space heater is the suspected cause.  No one was in the building, so no one was injured.  The Frankfort Fire Dept did a wonderful job in extinguishing the blaze with minimal water damage….Tammy Royal, archivist,  had come over from Saginaw for a visit  and arrived shortly after the fire trucks had departed.  She wondered what everyone was doing over by  “her office”.  She was devastated to say the least.(and no raccoons were harmed)  All of the old records that were in the file cabinets are fine. Two book cases were destroyed and everything else has smoke damage .  When you come North this summer, a bucket, a brush and some good old lye soap would be appropriate……

The group in the last picture decided there must be a better way to draw a crowd, on a sunny Saturday afternoon…..

Be well,  Jay