June 2020 The Indiana Dunes National Park runs for nearly 45 miles along the southern shore of Lake Michigan and is the newest U.S. national park. Formerly the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, it was designated as a national park in February 2019. Indiana Dunes State Park is located within the national park boundary so I will also include our trip there in this entry. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the visitors center was closed but we were able to get…
June 1-18, 2020 Our last couple of weeks in Franklin were quite eventful. On June 3-8 Rick went out of town to visit a friend in CT so I was filling in for him, helping out with the kids during the day and getting Isaiah to bed each night. It was fun. Oh, and we also bought a house with Rick and Maggie! Richard, Maggie and I toured the house on June 5th and put in an offer which was…
May 2020 We spent the month of May in quarantine in Franklin TN but got outside the box a bit this month. On May 5th Rick and the family took off in the car for a week’s vacation in Florida, staying at a friend’s house in Watercolor on the Northwest Gulf Coast. While they were away Richard and I got busy with some home improvement projects. My big job was to tackle the white picket fence in the front yard….