Good morning GH.  To borrow rather unabashedly from Crosby Stills, and Nash, just a blog before I go.  Yes, Adam and Steph will be taking over the house for a few days and keeping Sugar the Weather Dog protected and safe.  When Sugar looks out the Weather Window this AM, she will see partly cloudy skies, and the sun on the rise, with a current desktop temperature of 50 degrees.  Mary and I are off to the eastern part of the state today for a short visit, and we plan on taking the byways not the highways as we travel.  We have a theory, well actually a reality, that if you avoid highways, you see and discover more when you take the "back roads."  You can see more than you can as you whiz by at 70 MPH on the highways.   Plus, it is a lot less nerve racking.  I guess that as you get older, you just want things to slow down a bit.  Ah, the idea that youth is wasted on the young rears its ugly head again.  So, we will visit some small towns, some antique stores and whatever else catches our interest.  As newly minted Michiganders, we are always discovering new things.  Since we lived just outside of Chicago all of our lives, we pretty much knew where everything they talked about on the news was located.  Here in MI, what is the known for us, is a small area from here to Beaver Island in the north to Buffalo in the south; Grand Rapids to the east, and of course, GH itself.  So for us, each new drive is an adventure.  We will rely somewhat on "Hal", our GPS unit, but mostly on the good old fashioned road atlas and maps that we own.  So, until I return with ne pictures and things to repiort, I'll just say that it is...Tea time.