The Sound of the Pounding: my new blog about music

I apologize if this comes off as an advertisement for another blog.  I suppose it is that, but I won’t see any payment for it.
I’m passionate about music.  I have other blogs but Plymouth Living is the one I love the most and it also has the most readers.  I have to fight off the [...]

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Bode’s goes “smoke free” on January 2, 2009!

One of my favorite family diner-style restaurants in town is Bode’s Corned Beef House on Main, at the railroad tracks.
The only real complaint I have ever had about Bode’s is that it gets way too smoky. When the front portion of the restaurant is at capacity with smokers, the air in the entire restaurant [...]

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Happy New Year (a little early)

I may or may not be posting before the New Year. If not, have a wonderful, safe and fun New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
Here’s Auld Lang Syne for your (or mine, anyway) listening pleasure.

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A new feature of the Blogroll: weather.com forecast for Plymouth

I’ve added to the Blogroll a link to The Weather Channel’s page for Plymouth.
If you’re curious about the weather while here, just click on the link in the Blogroll (to the right) and you’ll get current weather information for our area.

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“I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!”

If you’ve seen the movie, A Christmas Story, you’ll know that line.  If you’ve been around Plymouth very long, you’ll also know that air rifle used to be made right here in town.
Michigan History Online has a great brief history of Daisy (and the air rifle industry more generally)
http://www.michiganhistorymag.com/extra/2008/marapr/its_a_daisy.html
Red Ryder was a character created by [...]

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Merry Christmas

I just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas!

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It’s true: you get what you pay for

If you own a home in the City of Plymouth, you know that taxes here are pretty steep.  Cross the road into the township and watch thousands drop off your yearly tax bill.
Cities in this area are considerably cheaper to live in tax-wise, but city services elsewhere don’t match ours in town.  The recent snowfall [...]

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5:30 a.m.

Anticipating this morning’s mini-blizzard, knowing that the roads would be too lousy to do my 6:00 a.m. gym routine, I stayed up late reading, putzing around the ‘net, etc.
5:30 a.m. sharp our phone rings…and rings…and rings. Stops. Ah, silence. Ten seconds later the phone rings again…and rings…and rings.
The phone calls I’ve gotten [...]

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Thank you

I wanted to take the time to thank you for reading this blog.  Maybe you drop in every day.  Maybe you’ve only been here once.  Either way, I appreciate you taking the time to read my stuff and visit this site.
I have other blogs for writing things that are more personal.  Sometimes I just write [...]

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Stay tuned for an upcoming Gleaners/Trinity Church food donation event

Trinity Presbyterian Church will be partnering again with Gleaners Food Bank to prepare/donate food baskets to needy families. I apologize that I do not now have more specific information, but I understand the event will be in January. It’s set to take place both inside and outside Trinity Presbyterian Church at the corner [...]

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