Rush Hour… 9/4

We are lakeside, the family members in part. Some of us are looking at the task ahead, fall prep, docks, boats, skis and other water toys have got to be put away for the winter. Ya, it’s a slap of reality but it’s our calendar of life.

Out on the lake everyone else is getting in one last dose of summer. Our small lake has about forty other residents and all are using the water all at once getting in a last lick. It reminds me why we are thankful and living here and are not commuting on the Dan Ryan Expressway. Yet looking out on the water it rather looks like the Dan Ryan. This is also the BLT time of the year, thanks Tina and Bob.

This afternoon is the Great Event of our small town… it’s Whitman’s Good By Party. We year round folks bring to Whitman Saloon a lawn chair to sit around outside chatting with one another while having a corn roast waving at all the traffic headed south. Most passer-bys are flatlanders headed back to their own commute on the Dan Ryan.

The traffic slows on US 51 around Whitman’s while drivers and passengers wave back blowing their car horns in salute. So if you happen by during in our annual Hazelhurst Rush Hour… give us a honk or drop in for an ear, you can’t be in that big of a hurry.