This is the view this morning out of our window. It's snowing! That's the frozen lake, and the little boat house, and the sauna on the left. The houses in the pictures below are from a historic area of Detroit, right in the middle of all the crap, called Indian Village. There were several homes for sale, a lot of them $200K! 
The gray house was $40K because it was a wreck inside.
I didn't get pictures of the mansions in Grosse Pointe, and there were several of those for sale for I'm sure millions, but I will try to get those taken and posted when we take the kids to see Detroit in a few weeks. Maggie and Robert are flying in Dec 22, and staying for almost a month, so we have to come up with some sort of fun itinerary since we don't have cable. I forgot to tell everyone that our Izusu Trooper is now in front of the cabin! The scam transport company we hired on the internet actually picked up the Trooper in Newton, Iowa and brought it to us here in Chelsea! Steve had to order specialty parts from the dealer in Ann Arbor and a neighbor down the road has generously offered his heated garage for Steve to work on the car, so hopefully we will be a two-car family again in a few days. Steve's beloved tow dolly is still in Iowa, sitting behind a fence at the shop where we originally had left the Trooper, so the transport driver said although there wasn't any room for it on this trip, the next time he goes to Iowa and if he has room, he will bring it back to Steve. You have no idea how much Steve loves his tow dolly, so this separation has been painful for him. He would have left me in Iowa and taken the tow dolly if it had been a doable choice. Our plan for the next few days is to work on the Trooper while I read magazines by a warm fire in the beautiful library in Chelsea, then start setting up meetings with his contacts in Detroit. This is a slow time of year and the auto industry is in meltdown mode, on the verge of bankruptcy, but Steve's forging ahead with his vision!
The gray house was $40K because it was a wreck inside.
I didn't get pictures of the mansions in Grosse Pointe, and there were several of those for sale for I'm sure millions, but I will try to get those taken and posted when we take the kids to see Detroit in a few weeks. Maggie and Robert are flying in Dec 22, and staying for almost a month, so we have to come up with some sort of fun itinerary since we don't have cable. I forgot to tell everyone that our Izusu Trooper is now in front of the cabin! The scam transport company we hired on the internet actually picked up the Trooper in Newton, Iowa and brought it to us here in Chelsea! Steve had to order specialty parts from the dealer in Ann Arbor and a neighbor down the road has generously offered his heated garage for Steve to work on the car, so hopefully we will be a two-car family again in a few days. Steve's beloved tow dolly is still in Iowa, sitting behind a fence at the shop where we originally had left the Trooper, so the transport driver said although there wasn't any room for it on this trip, the next time he goes to Iowa and if he has room, he will bring it back to Steve. You have no idea how much Steve loves his tow dolly, so this separation has been painful for him. He would have left me in Iowa and taken the tow dolly if it had been a doable choice. Our plan for the next few days is to work on the Trooper while I read magazines by a warm fire in the beautiful library in Chelsea, then start setting up meetings with his contacts in Detroit. This is a slow time of year and the auto industry is in meltdown mode, on the verge of bankruptcy, but Steve's forging ahead with his vision! 
2 comments:
I'm so glad you finally made it and am already enjoying the blog! You'll also shortly be recieving the cheesy Johansson Christmas card since you included your address.
Hi Aunt Gail and Uncle Steve! This is a wonderful blog and your thoughts of the day are so entertaining! Thanks for sharing and I look forward to hearing more of your adventures in Michigan! -- Cassie Hobbs
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