Plymouth-Canton Mettetal Airport is home to small planes. It is owned by Michigan and open to the public. In fact, there are picnic tables located close to the runway that allow visitors to enjoy the take off and landing of ultralights, Cessnas, powered parachutes and even a T-18 Tiger.

If you find your imagination captured, free flights for kids are available through EAA Chapter 113's Young Eagles, and flying lessons are available through Kitze Aviation.

According to Stores Magazine, discount and food stores make up the bulk of its Top 100 Retailers list in 2009. So, what is the only Michigan retailer who made the list? Meijer (fka Meijer Thrifty Acres) of Grand Rapids is 29th on the list and is Michigan founded and grown.

According to FundingUniverse.com, Meijer started out as a grocery store in Greenville, Michigan in 1934. The food store was created by Hendrik Meijer, who also innovated the shopping basket (literally a wicker basket) for customer self service. His chain of food stores continued to grow; and, in 1962, Meijer opened its first Meijer Thrifty Acres discount department store -- a concept that predated K-mart and Walmart's attempts to combine food with other retail departments. Another innovation for the chain came in 1988, when a number of the Meijer locations went 24 hours.

The weather was with the crafters this weekend at Plymouth's Art in the Park -- well, at least on Sunday. If you missed the festivities, a lot of the artists move on to Ann Arbor's version starting on Wednesday, July 15th.

Ray Drecker is the main character in HBO's new series Hung, which is based and partially filmed in the Metro-Detroit area. Whether or not you like the show, it is still fun to try to figure out where in the metro area a particular scene was shot. For instance, in the show's second episode (that aired on Sunday, July 12th), the main characters had a working lunch in a Bennigan's Restaurant. It sure looked to me like the Bennigan's on Ann Arbor Road by the I-275 entrance ramp in Plymouth.

Recognize anywhere else?