As Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I went about our daily rounds, we noticed a number of enhancements to the overall business environment. Dale Burns over at Margaritaville North painted some of his deck chairs a brilliant red, and tricked out another in a cow pattern. The paint is particularly glossy and virtually bulletproof. I like it. When I stopped to take a picture, Dale’s dad Bob was there, so we chatted about this and that, and he showed me his new intarsia golf bag design that’s going over well, and I found out that his other son, Steve, is a painter. In fact, he’s the very painter who just finished freshening up Schoolhouse Antiques.
The sign at Sonny’s promised stuffed grape leaves and tabbouleh. I love Middle Eastern food. Next to Rob the Firefighter and the Lady Alicia, it’s what I miss most about Detroit. I stopped and shopped. I truly meant to do some food styling for you, but I was hungry, and the Cowboy was hungry, and what with one thing and another . . . well, take my word for it, the grape leaves and the tabbouleh are quite tasty, and make a much healthier lunch than the peanut butter and jam sandwich I was thinking about having. Also, the nasturtiums Chris planted outside the little red storage cabin are pretty and I thought you should see them.
An installer from COLI Communications was putting in a receiver over at Bob and Joanna Hicks’s, which I’m pretty sure means that Bob’s website design service is doing well, or that COLI is rolling out broadband aggressively, or both. I would be more excited about this except that this morning I spent a long time over at the Township Hall working on the other day job, which is the EMS billing, and the internet service kept disappearing at critical moments. Am I being a crank? I am, aren’t I! Sorry.
Finally, Tim Peterson’s sign promised a view of Torch Lake from the porch at Peterson’s US-31 North—AND favorable prices. Ever the consumer advocate, I checked it out. Sure enough, you can see the lake from the porch. I have to go back when the restaurant’s open to report on the new menu. I can hardly wait.
Torch Lake Views 
Leslie
August 13, 2009
Do you know, I never miss a post. I love looking at your pictures. 🙂
flandrumhill
August 13, 2009
I don’t have one of those brightly painted lawn chairs (yet) but they seem to be popular in my neighborhood too. The cow pattern is definitely unique, but something that wouldn’t seem out of place here in Cow Bay 🙂
Mmmmmm mmmiddle eastern foood…. it’s all tasty but Baklava is my favorite. I haven’t made it in awhile. Maybe I should make some soon.
In your last photo, the lake water through the trees looks like such a light almost Caribbeanblue. Is it really like that? If so, Torch Lake must be quite the pretty sight.
Gerry
August 13, 2009
Torch Lake is absolutely just exactly like that. It is all the shades of blue there are. It is so blue that it stands out in satellite photos. It is very, very pretty indeed.
When Ed Heussner brought his grandchildren to visit, Nick kept asking to go back to the swimming pool. We were mystified until we realized that he meant Torch Lake. In his experience, something that blue was a pool.
This reminds me of a conversation I had a long, long time ago with George Saridis, a friend from Purdue. He had a poster of Greece on his apartment wall. I said no seawater could be that blue. He said that indeed it could, thus jimmying my mind open a little further. George had his work cut out for him in those days.