The Great Lakes State

So we gain Duluth, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, and Rochester ... Plus Door County and Apostle Islands in Wisconsin. Oh and Niagara Falls.

Minimums at craps been $25 since COVID in downtown Detroit. I’ve been to soaring eagle only once I enjoyed it, I’m about 2 and a half hours away and I’m just trying to see what are the table minimums down there? I believe they used to have a $5 table, $10 table, $15 table do they still have that?

lmk pls

I've been riding a big, heavy adventure motorcycle for a few years throughout lower peninsula MI, usually central (between grayling and gladwin, and surrounding). I find lots and lots of sand in that area and it's anything from a minor annoyance to an actual danger because I can get stuck in that. Wondering if the UP is less sandy, more so, or about the same. Deep sugar sand is just arduous on a bike like mine. thanks for input

If there are any other areas of MI which are much less sandy than normal, please let me know about those too. I just find the general consistency of large swaths of this state are super sandy and I want to spend more time in dirt, gravel, or rocky terrain

I’m trying to go to the brewery with the most comments in the lower peninsula this weekend

Doing some yard work and found this fella, around the Lansing area.

Fellow michiganaders, we have to resist the invasion of "Soda'

Looking for one that passes easily, ty

Joe Moss and his special type of people are actively attempting to prevent women employed by Ottawa county from receiving reproductive health care. This will as usual result in legal challenges and payments to the Kallman legal group, who represent Ottawa county and shocker- Joe Moss has business connections with. https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/county/2024/04/26/republicans-to-oi-this-isnt-the-time-to-make-abortion-an-issue/73433006007/

It’s not just Detroit. It’s Michigan fans as a whole!

I live in the metro Detroit area. Around mid August I was in my driveway talking to a neighbor around 6-7pm and I noticed something bit me on the ankle and when I went to look what was flying around me it looked like a fly but smaller than the flys you typically find in your house. I also noticed they weren’t as black and looked like the head of the body was more red tint. I found it really odd as I lived here for four years and never seen these kinds of flys in the area. Later that night like 12am I went to cook something in my kitchen and I felt something near my leg again and I saw again that it was this damn fly. One of them must have gotten into the house. After a couple of minutes trying to find it to kill it I noticed it was on the kitchen floor almost like watching me. Like these flys are way smarter than the house flys. I couldn’t wait for winter to come so these things could die off and hopefully not come back. Well, I went outside today to do some cleaning and there it was again. The same type of fly just following me around sitting on the concrete. I want to put out the fly traps but every year I use those things I notice it just attracts more flies even though it seems like it’s killing all of them.

Wondering how rare it is to come across a rattlesnake in Michigan?

(Not my photo)

Just took my dog for a quick hike on some trails and to my complete and utter surprise we stumbled upon a rattlesnake. I have been told that there are 1-2 of them in Michigan, but I've been skeptical. Been hiking around ~10 years and I hardly ever see snakes, let alone a rattlesnake. My grandfather always told me to watch for rattlers when walking my dog, but I honestly thought it was a joke...until today lol.

I actually walked right over it but I always look to make sure my dog is next to me when off leash, very rare but we had the trail to ourselves today. When I did it was the exact moment she saw it. It kind of spooked her and she jumped back, I looked down, saw it was a snake and that's when she attempted to go after it. I instinctively grabbed her by the harness, put her on the leash and held her.

The snake I saw was surprisingly large and black, something I've never seen before so I had my dog stay on the trail while i did some investigating.

It didn't go far off the trail, and I wasn't about to go after it or anything but I could hear it moving. Just wanted to see if I could get another peek from a distance. Sure enough though, I thought I could hear a faint rattle, just sort of thought to myself "wtf?! there's no way..." I assumed maybe it was the wind, but once I sort of followed the sound with my eyes, there it was. Clear as day, a black snake with a lighter brown tail coiled up rattling away. I didn't go into the woods any further because I didn't want my dog to follow but it was blatantly obvious it was a rattlesnake.

I immediately noped tf out and grabbed my dog once I knew what it was, but I'm kind of regretting not taking a picture of it. It was a mean looking snake and by far the largest I've seen in the wild.

From the research I did afterwards, it looks like it was a "melanistic eastern massasauga rattlesnake". It looked exactly like this photo.

Have you ever seen one of these? How rare/dangerous are they?

We need thease. I have a friend who has to drive around Chicago to get from Milwaukee to Saginaw he would really benefit from thease ferries. I would love to take a Non car trip to the UP for the night or 2.