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  • A Week on Mackinac Island, a Boy’s Dream Come True

    The closest he had ever been to the Island was the Mackinac Bridge. Twice during family trips to Marquette to visit friends. Twice on the way to Wawa, Ontario for fishing and hunting. It was actually his father who did all the hunting and most of the fishing. The hunting wasn’t successful and the fishing… Read more

  • Magical Mackinac Island, Michigan

    One of our absolute favorite destinations rests between the Lower and Upper Peninsulas of our Great State of Michigan. It is Mackinac Island. Mackinac Island is a perfect combination of shopping, eating, walking, bike-riding, sight seeing, and history. The beauty of the Island is hard to describe, but very difficult to match. Less than a… Read more

  • When Your Kids Outshine You

    It’s a gift to be able to watch our own children becoming all they want to be. With a daughter and triplet sons, and now a son-in-law, three daughters-in-law, and eight grandchildren, it’s hard to imagine life getting even better. Our daughter has been drawing since she was little. She used to love playing with… Read more

  • An Exercise in Patience

    Are you tired of waiting for patience? Model railroading is a great exercise in stretching your ability to wait for something good to happen. My current layout project began, literally, on the floor. The room I am using was a storage place for all the overflow stuff. I had to move, package, stack, sort, discard,… Read more

  • HO Scale Layout Progress

    Are you working on your HO scale train layout? Are you anxious to see trains moving through your scenery? So am I! This new layout I’m working on has taken a very long time, but I am taking serious steps to move forward. I have never used extruded foam as a base before, so I’m… Read more

  • Adventures in Model Railroading – Small Beginnings

    People who consider themselves model railroaders, or someday hope to be, had to start somewhere.  Not very many start with a bunch of locomotives, tons of rolling stock, loads of scenery and a ready-made layout just waiting for an engineer.  Usually, they start with a “train set” and a dream.  Even a small oval on… Read more