On Thursday and Friday we motored over to Lansing to see Pete and Emily Cummins, old high school friends we saw last fall for our 45th Okemos HS reunion ... 45 ... oooo. Anyhow we had a great time over dinner and drinks and then got to see Pete's passion .. the MGB he has lovingly restored. I had a series of MGs from 1963 to 1974 and share the love of this unique vehicle.

Pete and Emily also have a really neat parrot called Farfel ... not sure of the spelling or pronounciation and Pete or Emily will surely and hopefully correct me on this... and also give me the origin of the name. Anyhow Farfel is not the kind of bird that you pet easily; pretty large and very sharp beak and wary attitude ... and here is Jo-Anne not sure how to approach the fearsome beast ... she actually did get close enough to pet his head and it is apparently quite soft.

Obviously I wasn't getting anywhere near the birdy!