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Sunday was the Polar Bear Plunge in Downtown New Baltimore. Some very brave soles took the plunge into the icy water of Anchor Bay, which is part of Lake St. Clair. This is and event shared by many towns in the United States. This worthwhile event was to benefit the Lions Club. I hope you enjoy the pictures but don't catch a chill!
Some of them look like they are in pain....and some look like they can feel no pain!
This is our local High School band. The Anchor Bay Tars.
Every year in our town we have a parade to celebrate the fish fly festival or Bay Rama
This is the only high school in the area so it participates in many of the area towns celebrations. Next week end is the annual New Baltimore Fish-Fly Festival. Since New Baltimore is situated on Anchor Bay a part of lake St. Clair for about three days the end of June to the first of July the town has a bur age of fish flies. They don't bite but they are a nonsense. They stick to all the buildings, light posts, cars and anything else outside. They cover the streets and sidewalks of the whole town. Thank goodness they only live for 24 hours but the clean up is something. Some years the piles are a couple foot high.....yuck! When they hit I will try to post a few photos so you can get a sense of what its like here. Oh yes they smell like old fish too! The birds love this time of year and the fish in the lakes even more.
I will post pictures of the Fish-Fly parade and festivities after the event.
If you have any unusual or funny celebrations in your town let me know I will be glad to post them on my site..
I will post pictures of the Fish-Fly parade and festivities after the event.
If you have any unusual or funny celebrations in your town let me know I will be glad to post them on my site..
Small Town Living
Small Town living is new to me. I rejoice in the joys of the traditions and pride most small towns across America have. Like a lot of small towns New Baltimore is steeped with history and community pride. Sharing some of our small town celebrations is my way of showing the pride we have in our small town.
New Baltimore is a small town right on the shores of Anchor Bay. If looking at Michigan holding your left hand in front of you its very easy to communicate what area of the state I live in. Looking at the mitten (or your hand) just where your thumb starts on the outside is Lake St. Clair. Not one of the great lakes but still a very large lake. Our small town is located on the bay of Lake St. Clair.
A cute community that is growing in leaps and bounds as people find that living in a small town is more attractive with each growing year. The town itself is very small you know the kind with one stop light so don't blink when your driving through it. But the communities around this area are very numerous. The high school my children attend is one of the largest, but it consists of about five or six small towns.
I think as the world changes more and more people want that small town feeling. So even when you live in a big city, small communities are being formed within to make you feel like you live in a small town. Please enjoy my sight and I hope it will inspire you to start your own site showing the pride you have in your small town. Or just contact me and let me know about your small town and I can add it to my site.
Please enjoy clicking page to page and don't forget to print up some of the delicious recipes I have included. These are from a collection my Mom lovingly kept for my sisters and I to treasure.
Small Town living is new to me. I rejoice in the joys of the traditions and pride most small towns across America have. Like a lot of small towns New Baltimore is steeped with history and community pride. Sharing some of our small town celebrations is my way of showing the pride we have in our small town.
New Baltimore is a small town right on the shores of Anchor Bay. If looking at Michigan holding your left hand in front of you its very easy to communicate what area of the state I live in. Looking at the mitten (or your hand) just where your thumb starts on the outside is Lake St. Clair. Not one of the great lakes but still a very large lake. Our small town is located on the bay of Lake St. Clair.
A cute community that is growing in leaps and bounds as people find that living in a small town is more attractive with each growing year. The town itself is very small you know the kind with one stop light so don't blink when your driving through it. But the communities around this area are very numerous. The high school my children attend is one of the largest, but it consists of about five or six small towns.
I think as the world changes more and more people want that small town feeling. So even when you live in a big city, small communities are being formed within to make you feel like you live in a small town. Please enjoy my sight and I hope it will inspire you to start your own site showing the pride you have in your small town. Or just contact me and let me know about your small town and I can add it to my site.
Please enjoy clicking page to page and don't forget to print up some of the delicious recipes I have included. These are from a collection my Mom lovingly kept for my sisters and I to treasure.
Hard Times Calls for Hard Work
Like a lot of people right now in America we are struggling to make ends meet. My husband got laid off right before Christmas and because of his specialized occupation finding another job is almost impossible. I have out of necessity become quite frugal when it comes to providing meals for my family. I have also found that most of the sites on the internet saying they have coupons are not all what they are cracked up to be. All the coupons you find are for name brand products. If you comparison shop and apply the coupon it usually turns out that buying off brand products is less expensive. I use to hate to grocery shop...mind you I still don't like it but have found that it is now a bigger challenge and I never turn away from a challenge. Comparison shopping and really checking the size of the product makes a huge difference. Most of the recipes on my site are low cost and can be adapted to what you have on hand or what was on sale this week at the grocery store If you have any low cost meals to contribute please don't hesitate to send me and E-mail I would love to add them here.
Like a lot of people right now in America we are struggling to make ends meet. My husband got laid off right before Christmas and because of his specialized occupation finding another job is almost impossible. I have out of necessity become quite frugal when it comes to providing meals for my family. I have also found that most of the sites on the internet saying they have coupons are not all what they are cracked up to be. All the coupons you find are for name brand products. If you comparison shop and apply the coupon it usually turns out that buying off brand products is less expensive. I use to hate to grocery shop...mind you I still don't like it but have found that it is now a bigger challenge and I never turn away from a challenge. Comparison shopping and really checking the size of the product makes a huge difference. Most of the recipes on my site are low cost and can be adapted to what you have on hand or what was on sale this week at the grocery store If you have any low cost meals to contribute please don't hesitate to send me and E-mail I would love to add them here.
How Time Flies
Oh my! I can't believe I haven't updated my web site in almost a year! Wow how time flies when life gets in the way. First off I didn't mean to neglect this very important project I have started here, but my computer crashed and it took us some very long days to get it up and running again. When my computer crashed I lost everything I have worked so hard on so getting this website back was not and easy task. Thank God my husband doesn't give up easily and worked tirelessly to fix all the problems for me. I guess my second excuse is that since my husband still has not found a job I had to obtain work myself to help pay the bills. I became a nanny for two wonderful children I truly adored, but due to some medical issues I had to quit just this past June. So now that I have updated my readers I hope that I can continue what I started 3 years ago. I appreciate your support and hope to add many more interesting and delicious recipes for you to try.
Oh my! I can't believe I haven't updated my web site in almost a year! Wow how time flies when life gets in the way. First off I didn't mean to neglect this very important project I have started here, but my computer crashed and it took us some very long days to get it up and running again. When my computer crashed I lost everything I have worked so hard on so getting this website back was not and easy task. Thank God my husband doesn't give up easily and worked tirelessly to fix all the problems for me. I guess my second excuse is that since my husband still has not found a job I had to obtain work myself to help pay the bills. I became a nanny for two wonderful children I truly adored, but due to some medical issues I had to quit just this past June. So now that I have updated my readers I hope that I can continue what I started 3 years ago. I appreciate your support and hope to add many more interesting and delicious recipes for you to try.
What I did on my Summer Vacation 2008
Ahh...remembering that brief warm season we seem to have had here in Michigan called Summer. I would have to say our summer was very short this year and we did not experience as they say the "Dog days of summer".
As brief as it was it still seemed to fly by. I traveled quite a bit, not worldly mind you just back and forth up north. I think I drove up to Traverse City at least four times if not five to visit my daughter, who was working at the Grand Traverse Resort. I wish I could say that her working experience was wonderful but being a naive nineteen year old, I think she bit off more then she could chew so to speak. Things did not work out the way she had planned and ended back at home before summer was over.
Enough said about that. If you ever get the chance to travel our beautiful state I recommend you try to visit Traverse City. Its a small town sitting on the shores of Lake Michigan. Traverse City is the Cherry Capital in the state and I was lucky enough to be there for their famous Cherry Festival. The air show by the Blue Angels was breathtaking and I will always remember it.
This is one Small Town that is a vacationing dream, with the quaint downtown area and the beautiful views from the shores. So if you ever get the chance to visit Michigan, mark Traverse City for one of your stops.
Ahh...remembering that brief warm season we seem to have had here in Michigan called Summer. I would have to say our summer was very short this year and we did not experience as they say the "Dog days of summer".
As brief as it was it still seemed to fly by. I traveled quite a bit, not worldly mind you just back and forth up north. I think I drove up to Traverse City at least four times if not five to visit my daughter, who was working at the Grand Traverse Resort. I wish I could say that her working experience was wonderful but being a naive nineteen year old, I think she bit off more then she could chew so to speak. Things did not work out the way she had planned and ended back at home before summer was over.
Enough said about that. If you ever get the chance to travel our beautiful state I recommend you try to visit Traverse City. Its a small town sitting on the shores of Lake Michigan. Traverse City is the Cherry Capital in the state and I was lucky enough to be there for their famous Cherry Festival. The air show by the Blue Angels was breathtaking and I will always remember it.
This is one Small Town that is a vacationing dream, with the quaint downtown area and the beautiful views from the shores. So if you ever get the chance to visit Michigan, mark Traverse City for one of your stops.
What I did on my Summer Vacation 2007
Since I have not added any recipes to my web site all summer I thought I might tell you what I have been busy doing. Two of our children graduated from Anchor Bay High School this year both Dayna and my step son Cody. My daughter Dayna was excepted at Johnson & Wales University and receiving scholarship money this was her dream come true. She was one of the only 500 freshmen accepted at the Charlotte North Carolina campus, plus she was only one of the 150 accepted into the baking a pastry program. To say the least her step-father and I are very proud of this accomplishment.
For a gift to Dayna for graduation I decided to tackle making her a quilt from all her shirts she had collected through her school years.
Not knowing what I was getting myself into I sent for the directions to make a T-shirt quilt. It took me all summer to finish the quilt so that Dayna would have a keepsake for all the hard work she did in High School.
Below is a picture of all my hard work!
Since I have not added any recipes to my web site all summer I thought I might tell you what I have been busy doing. Two of our children graduated from Anchor Bay High School this year both Dayna and my step son Cody. My daughter Dayna was excepted at Johnson & Wales University and receiving scholarship money this was her dream come true. She was one of the only 500 freshmen accepted at the Charlotte North Carolina campus, plus she was only one of the 150 accepted into the baking a pastry program. To say the least her step-father and I are very proud of this accomplishment.
For a gift to Dayna for graduation I decided to tackle making her a quilt from all her shirts she had collected through her school years.
Not knowing what I was getting myself into I sent for the directions to make a T-shirt quilt. It took me all summer to finish the quilt so that Dayna would have a keepsake for all the hard work she did in High School.
Below is a picture of all my hard work!
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