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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Tuesday, July 15

4:30 a.m. - We are in St. Ignace, Michigan, and our arrival yesterday was a solid, safe day of travel.  Most of the drive was two-lane highway around the north end of Lake Michigan.  Our KOA is an older campground, but it works fine.  Every time we go to a different campground, set up is always interesting because every set up is different.  In this case, I've got my utility connections stretch pretty thin going different directions.  The important thing, though, is that we are all hooked up.  

Yesterday after arriving, Amber and I ventured out in the truck over the Mackinac Bridge to Mackinaw City.  We found a casino, of course, (and lost again) but we also made our way down to the shopping district and had some ice cream.  I had a flavor called Tennessee whiskey, and it really did taste like there was Jack Daniels whiskey in it...it was good!  Driving the bridge was interesting...a little nerve-wracking but very picturesque.  After time in Mackinaw City, we drove back across the bridge and visited the casino near St. Ignace.  It was a bigger casino, and we didn't lose there.  (We weren't big winners, though.)

Today's plan is to get on the ferry and head over to Mackinac Island.  We are going early, and we are only taking one bike ticket because we found out that the Island doesn't allow e-bikes like Amber has.  That's a bummer.  I think she was really looking forward to getting a bike.  So we are going to take my bike because we had already purchased tickets, and hopefully we can rent a bike for Amber that she will be okay with.  If not, we'll park my bike and walk around.  With this being our first visit to the island, we have no idea what all we will do or how long we will be.  So today will be a day of ignorant tourist exploration!

Things for School 

  • get new kindergarten (Bragg) assigned
  • August 11 - camera meeting
  • send message to Kristin Tucker after Strauss is hired
  • July 23 for one-room school alumni gathering
  • order mulch for flagpole
  • order more brown mulch for front of school
  • order more mulch for playground

OTHER THINGS

  • if not received, call hospital about EOB for surgery
  • send out Northwestern Mutual bills
  • August 4 - WCOA banquet - Park Place - Macomb - 5:30 p.m.
  • get Darlington Camping Trip Dates figured out
  • Take Dockers to Monster Sewing?
  • get bicycle fixed - pick it up
  • send EOB stuff from surgery for refund
  • spray weeds
  • a hood light switch for the Ford
  • July 6 - Caleb's birthday party in Monmouth - Pizza Hut - 5 p.m. 
  • July 13-18 - Summer Camping Trip to Mackinac Island
  • July 29 - 1:25 p.m. Moline Post Op Appointment with Hussein in Moline 
  • July 29 - bus refresher course 5 p.m.
  • Aug. 17 - volleyball clinic at UTHS 8:30 a.m.
  • Oct. 23 - 8 a.m. Riverside Dentistry 


Schedule of Knee Appointments
X - Dec. 30 - Weiler Chiro Appt.
X - Jan. 14 - consultation with Hussein and cortisone shot - scheduled Apr. 16 surgery
March 24 - went to Illini Hospital - ekg, blood drawn, chest x-ray, urine sample, instructions
X - April 8 - 8:30 a.m. Pre-op with Hussein at Clinic
X - April 15 - appointment with Wang to clear me for April 16
April 16 - knee replacement surgery - Illini Hospital
X - April 18 - 9:00 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - April 21 - 9:20  a.m.  Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - April 23 - 10:00 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
    X - 1:30 Silvis Post Op Appointment (Avenue of Cities)
X - April 25 - 9:20 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - April 28 - 9:20 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - April 30 - 9:00 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
also Milan Optical
X - May 2 - 9:00 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - May 5 - 8:40 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - May 7 - 10:40 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - May 9 - 9:00 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - May 12 - 8:40 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - May 14 - 8:40 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - May 16 - 8:20 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - May 20 - noon Moline ORA Blackhawk 
X - May 21 - 8:40 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - May 23 - 7:40 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - May 27 - 9 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - May 28 - 9:40 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - May 29 - 8:30 a.m. Post Op Appointment with Hussein in Moline
X - May 30 - 1:20 p.mMoline ORA Blackhawk
X - June 2 - 8:40 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk 
X - June 4 - 8:40 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - June 6 - 8:40 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - June 9 - 8:40 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X - June 11 - 9 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
X- June 13 - 8:20 a.m. Moline ORA Blackhawk
July 29 - 1:25 p.m. Moline Post Op Appointment with Hussein in Moline

X = EOB received
BLUE equals payment made for those visits

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