The Turner Family

So, we're exiting the High School after working out and playing basketball with the kids on Sunday, and with the wealth of rain we received over the weekend, there was a commensurate wealth of worms on the sidewalks and pavement. Tiffani offered a Big Mac to whomever chewed and swallowed a worm, to which there were no acceptors of the challenge. Cue to our turn on to Belknap Street a few moments later, and the peripheral notice of the giant puddle that appears every spring behind the house on the corner (recall the rain mentioned in the previous paragraph). The weather was cool and gray, certainly not swimming conditions in the midwest, but a new challenge was proffered: submergence in the Belknap Lake would also merit a Big Mac. The results... Big Macs all around. Sophia charged out of the van for the water, but Nick's chum, Ezra, was the first to actually log roll through. Warm showers, and then a hot lunch .

Thanks to the downturn in the economy, Glen's company hasn't had much work, so he hasn't had any either. In this northern Michigan winter that will not end, he turned his attention to indoor projects, which got him started on "sprucing up" his pow wow regalia. When he realized how much he enjoyed doing that, he started working on things for other people. This is all very labor-intensive stuff and I'm very impressed with his efforts. Thought you might like to see some. The first thing he made was a fancy strap for his "medicine bag" In the olden days, the longer white and dark pieces would be made of hollowed-out animal bone and horn. Nowadays, if you can't find those items, it's acceptable to use plastic. There's a couple of local places where you can actually get bone and horn "stringers". From the first project, he went on to make a tiny breast plate for our 4 year old grandson, Parker. All of the beads, buttons, fringe, etc,