Who would drive over 2000 miles just to see former neighbors? Us! Ron and Terri lived next to us on Machiavelli Drive in Tucson and have spent most of the last 5 years in a small , err tiny ....very tiny town in the Upper Peninsula. This is a place you can't drive to with GPS, even if you put in their co-ordinates! Thank goodness for the very specific directions that Ron emailed to us!
Ron was a school psychologist for Amphi Schools and Terri taught at CDO for many years when they lived in the "Old Pueblo". Now they are both retired and are living on 40 acres of wooded land near Winona (population 19). I just wish we would be able to have them as neighbors again.
We headed down the long, winding driveway until their cabin appeared. It was built by Terri's father 35 years ago and her parents lived for quite a long time with only a log burning stove for heat, a wood stove to cook on and no phone. They certainly were much hardier people than either of us.
The view from their back porch shows the lake, most of which they own. The only sounds we heard were from the plethora of birds at her feeders. We weren't there when they had a visit from a much bigger visitor....a bear earlier this summer! One of Terri's shepherd hooks is bent down to the ground after he ate the bird feed.
This little fella was stunned after he flew into the window by the back porch. You can see that it literally scared the crap out of him! Poor guy. : (
I should have asked Terri before we left what kind of birds these were (except for the Blue Jay). They go through a LOT of birdseed and peanuts but if I lived there, I'd be doing the same thing. I spent a lot of time out by their house trying to get good pictures of the various birds and the small chipmunks (Don said they were striped squirrels!) that hurried around gathering the food before the winter sets in.
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