Howdy Friends. I've been asked why I haven't been posting pics of the deer, the brook trout streams, etc. Fact is I'm still posting from dial-up, too time consuming to upload. However, I have ordered Hughes Satellite Internet and should have it in a couple weeks if I can coordinate with the installer. I also have high speed now at work and have a new Toshiba Lap Top the Hospital has supplied me with. I will be going to Findlay this weekend and get the cables I need to connect my camera phone to the computer so I can start posting photos of the beautiful Northland. It is sad to report that my friends Dan and Erica had to depart early this morn for the sunny state of Florida---they had quite an adventure in the U.P.---made it all the over to Wisconsin and back and still found time to hang out with me and dine at Chamberlain's on Big Manistique Lake, fish for brookies and pike, hike, bicycle, kayak and have a marvelously "awesome" time as Erica would say! This is my first call weekend here and I am still trying to adjust to a very different call system. I don't get outside pages from patients, that's all handled thru the E.R. and walk-in clinic on the weekend---so the pager is strangely quiet for hours and hours. When it beeps its from the E.R. or nurses station it is generally benign. There were a few hours yesterday where I had to help a critically ill patient get transferred out---but even that was relatively painless. Presently I'm looking at Lake Michigan and thinking about my Lorhel in a concert tonight in Cinci---Jomay, Sarah, Jeffy, Julie and Lindsey went down to partake in the joy of a live orchestra---a treat I have come to hear often in our musical life. I am looking forward to seeing them of course, and dream of the day we are all together up here. However, I do not miss life otherwise below the Mackinac Bridge. The circle of life here is you are raised in Northern Michigan---and can't wait to get out when you are in High School. Then, many years are spent trying to get back. Once you return, and grow acustomed to the continual view of cedars against the ephemeral, evervescent sky and water, you never want to leave. My home is open to visitors and over the next year is supposed to get bigger with the new addition. I would love to share this with you, maybe even a couple new fishing spots if you're nice! Blessings, signed, Northern Exposed, Jeff.