Morning Michiganders and Welcome to all the newbies! Hard to keep up on the forum during the busy summers. We had kin from Florida visiting and now in another 4 days have a couple from Florida visiting for a week or two. Last week of August I fly to florida to celebrate my dads 98 !! birthday. September 6 I have friends I grew up with in Vermontville...coming to housesit/chicken care/and dog care for us for 2 1/2 WEEKS while hubby and I go to Colorado (sister there) Wyoming and Montana (cuz). A trip we have wanted for years!
We live on a "seasonal" dirt road (trail really). Not snowplowed and not graded by the county. Our mailbox is 1/2 mile away. Our town (Fife Lake) is small with maybe 700 people winters and 1,000 summers. The village has a hardware, two bar/restruants, a grocery store, post office, pharmacy and a tiny beach and boat landing because the town wraps around Fife Lake. We LOVE it here. Our home is only 1 1/2 miles from downtown and we can walk there. We can take the ATV or snowmobile to get groceries! This year....town people are actually driving down our dusty trail to buy my eggs (friends from church) or pick our rhubarb. We have a good life and feel blessed. We are 60 yrs old....hope to be able to manage the road and our property for another 10 years but who knows? There are always disadvantages to living in the boonies.
We need RAIN really bad..none here for over a month I think. Rain dancers....please start your dancing up again!
We live on a "seasonal" dirt road (trail really). Not snowplowed and not graded by the county. Our mailbox is 1/2 mile away. Our town (Fife Lake) is small with maybe 700 people winters and 1,000 summers. The village has a hardware, two bar/restruants, a grocery store, post office, pharmacy and a tiny beach and boat landing because the town wraps around Fife Lake. We LOVE it here. Our home is only 1 1/2 miles from downtown and we can walk there. We can take the ATV or snowmobile to get groceries! This year....town people are actually driving down our dusty trail to buy my eggs (friends from church) or pick our rhubarb. We have a good life and feel blessed. We are 60 yrs old....hope to be able to manage the road and our property for another 10 years but who knows? There are always disadvantages to living in the boonies.

We need RAIN really bad..none here for over a month I think. Rain dancers....please start your dancing up again!