About “Us”!

“Us.”
Webster defines “us” as
“… the speaker and another person or group of people as the indirect object or direct object of a verb
: people in general

Well, I guess we fall into the “people in general” category. We both grew up in the nation’s kitchen (i.e.the flat; featureless; utilitarian; corn and manure-filled Midwest). No mountains, whitewater, or remote desert trails here. (We would likely consider those places the nation’s family room or game room.)

Who are we? We are “us”. Let me tell you a little about “us”. We are two ordinary people. John spent the last twenty + years working in the automotive industry and now runs his own consulting firm. I write and take care of our home and garden on a 32-acre wilderness property consisting of forest, native grasses, and pollinators. From the garden I can, dehydrate, and freeze produce for the rest of the year. Believe me, I am sooo busy. I don’t have time to have a job! See, we are ordinary; we are not exciting; we are very boring, actually!

We are ordinary people who live ordinary daily lives, but take a few adventures now and then. We have taken three interior Canadian trips to the end of the road—even to the Arctic Ocean. Our kayaks (separate boats) have traveled with us on each of these trips.

We have four grown children between “us” and are blessed that our blended family gets along so well. We even have grandchildren—eight. It does not surprise our family when we decide to leave our ordinary daily life and venture beyond our ordinariness.

Thus, they were not totally shocked (maybe freaked out a little this time) when we announced we were planning another trip. This time we will paddle the 1300 miles of the upper Mississippi River, which we missed on our previous source-to-sea trip.

In spite of these periodic self-fulfilling adventures, we aspire to put God first, marriage second, family third, and everything else fourth. Follow along and see what shenanigans we can get into and maybe we’ll all learn something along the way.