Macomb County is done!! Hallelujah!!

I have to admit that I'm not a big suburbs person. I love the country and I love cities but I don't get the point of in between but that's just me. To each their own. Different strokes for different folks. You do your thing I'll do mine. Macomb County isn't just suburbs and I know there are lots of rural parts to it and some really cool cities and there is waterfront and wonderful parks and they have a lot to be proud of. But I'm a little grumpy today and all I remember is subdivisions and strip malls.

As I said in my last post this morning, I was hoping to get both Lapeer and Macomb County done today. Wonderful Wes came back from his mandatory daily walk with Tonks the dog and announced that he didn't think he wanted to come walk with me in the rain. The way he put it was, "You know how sometimes you don't want to come out on the boat with me and tell me to go ahead and have fun?"...and you can take it from there. Payback is hell. So I headed out up 75 in the steady rain with the semi's screaming past me. I got a bite to eat and then did my walk.

So it was another rail to trail, Old Orchard Trail. The trailhead is just south of 24 Mile Road on Dequindre. To be honest there was nothing fantastic about it. It was raining and brown and cold and I was soaked when I got back to the car. But it's done. I couldn't handle doing Lapeer and I am just happy that I won't have to drive through Detroit again to get to the counties I still have to do. Sometimes I have to be happy despite my woeful inadequacy.

PS I took a few pictures of the back of people's yards. I don't know about you but it would not be a good thing to have people parading past the back of our shed and barn. Do you remember when there was supposedly a panther in Monroe County? Well, the dingdong that lives behind us was the one who supposedly saw it and the news crew was over there taking pictures. I was moving very quickly around the yard trying to put a semblance of order to the view. Sometimes I just sit and wonder.

PPS I was just looking on Wikipedia and here are a few people who are from Macomb County: Kid Rock, Eminem, Uncle Kracker, Mitch Ryder, John Smolz, Derian Hatcher. Macomb County was named after General Alexander Macomb who was a highly decorated veteran of the war of 1812.