Hello and welcome to another episode of the Gray NATO, a Hodinkie podcast.

It's a loose discussion of travel, diving, driving, gear,

and most certainly watches.

This is episode 118, and we thank you for listening.

Busy week out there for you, James?

Yeah, plenty busy week.

It's been, I don't know, it's been a busy, I guess it's been a busy season, but, yeah, a lot, a lot of stuff going on with, with Hodinky and just trying to balance work and, I don't know, something like a life you don't really go out anymore so that's kind of different but yeah it's been busy how would you decent weekend for you?

Yeah, yeah we had a great weekend we've kind of you know as as many people have during the pandemic I mean it's what

it's sourdough and it's gardening and I don't know a few other things for

for almost everybody these days but we we've been tackling kind of

getting our garden in shape so we had a tree company come out and do a lot of some long

overdue trimming and cutting down some kind of invasives and stuff like that and then we kind of put a good effort in on the weekend and fit in a long bike ride and I managed to do a couple of projects on the land, so it was kind of hit all the high points this weekend.

We got a little exercise and some long overdue projects and...

Lovely.

Yeah, and then we still had time to have a gin and tonic on the on the patio afterwards.

So it was good. Yeah. I'm glad to hear it and you've got a you've got a little trip coming up for next week and the weekend after this

episode comes out. Yeah so we leave on I guess it is Saturday yeah so two days after

the episode goes up we're headed up to the upper peninsula of Michigan to do

some camping near a place called Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore so it's a

beautiful stretch of of Lakefront up there in Lake Superior where they've got these sea cliffs that have, I guess they've had some seepage of colorful minerals that have painted the cliffs, these beautiful colors, and it's a popular place to go

kayaking and that sort of thing and I managed to find a campsite for us that's on a

place called 12 Mile Beach which as the name suggests is a very long

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