It is almost midnight on the shores of Lake Huron as I type this. I was down in Kitchener today, a lovely 2.5 hour drive South to get new tires on our well aged 4Runner. 143,200 miles and counting. Still the original engine and drivetrain. Got in to Costco at 9 am, gone from Kitchener at 11 am. One party in tonight with more tomorrow. Should be an interesting weekend. Temps at night now going down into the low 40's F and daytime is not much warmer. We need to get our construction done on the basement window before it freezes, or we will not be able to get the concrete saw specialist in to do his job. In the mean time, I've uncovered the requirements from the building code and will be making yet another trip down South tomorrow, for a proper window. Home Depot in Owen Sound does not stock it, 3 weeks minimum to get one in to that store. Kitchener carries 3 of them in stock. I was just there. Sort of a repeating pattern in my life. Sigh.

As I was examining our newly acquired Wii game console, I was also noting the impressive white noise level that The Lake generates. When we first arrived, I thought all of the racket was from wind blowing through the trees, but in reality it is much like the sound I heard from the Gunnison River as I was growing up. My bedroom was right over a big hot water boiler of enormous cast iron proportions, that throughly heated my room during the winter requiring that I open my window to bring down the temp on nights when the wind wasn't blowing too hard. The sound of a river at night, and the big lake washing in white caps at night, are in many ways similar and equally peaceful. It is a good sound. And B&B life on Lake Huron goes on.

Fall is almost gone---but not today.

It is a wild 77 degrees F outside right now and I'd speculate about 80% RH. Very sticky indeed! My budding tennis prodigy son and I were out this morning for about 45 minutes and we were molten blobs by the end of our stay at the courts. We have these beautiful tennis courts exactly 2 blocks from our house and it took me all summer to get out there! Sad! Argghghgh! And my forehand AND backhand still work! Will wonders never cease to appear here in B&B land.

Let me share a snap of MacGregor Point Park. I dropped by for a first visit about a week ago and it is very impressive, and only about 6 kms from here via Port Elgin. On the road going there was a very bright contrast of orange and green---see the second photo below.

We have been busy this weekend, a full house last night. Tonight a very nice family of four with two young children. They are headed to Walker House for dinner then out to the main beach.

The weather continues to be impressively warm. I think if people down to the South of us in Toronto and the GTA knew how nice it was here, they would be on their way here. We spent some time this last week on a high wind day at the beach. Really impressive waves coming in--some well over my head and I'm over 6 feet. Take a look. Those waves are about 100 meters out from shore and really crashing down. I am sure if we could harness a tiny percentage of the power exhibited, we would not need our Hydro service.