Wyalusing State Park is such a gem!  Camping on a bluff overlooking the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers just puts anyone in a good mood.  Things I was grateful for this weekend:

• Stepping up the menu from the usual veggie burgers on a bun to chili, pasta, roasted veggies.
• Fun in the canoe – my first time paddling the Mississippi
• Wildlife sightings on the river galore – water snake, raccoon family, muskrat, turtles, great blue heron, turkey vulture, so many other birds that made me wish I had brought this book
• Near-crisis averted by Diene’s swift recovery of my abandoned paddle
• friendly neighbors
• great people watching
• going for a run through the woods, past effigy mounds
• having time to sit down and read The Sun, cover to cover
• Showers with hot water
• a cruise to Bagley, WI where Grandpa’s General Store did have everything we needed
• entertaining the idea of running away to canoe the Mississippi from Minnesota to New Orleans and leave all the rest behind