Sound and light

It's amazing how much the weather impacts what you see and hear when you're out and about, and I mean out and about outside the confines of a vehicle. 

Back in the day, when I still had a job and didn't have the option of walking the dog at noon, and when they still had regular flights to Toronto from Thunder Bay and the Soo, you'd hear this propeller airplane overhead every morning around 7:15. It was a regularly scheduled flight, so I'm sure it went by at about the same altitude every morning, but some days it sounded like it was 100 feet overhead, and other times you couldn't hear it at all. 

Same with the passenger jets. There's not a lot of them anymore either, but, depending on weather conditions, they can be either totally silent, or sound like a B-52 coming in low and slow.

Weather determines what you see as well as what you hear. I come out the Grey Road 1 from Owen Sound almost every day. When you're going by the Kemble look-out, you can see Christian Island, a good fifty miles distant, clear as day. Sometimes.

Other times, you can't see it at all. 

Much depends on weather.

Bring back Nork's Pork

Looks like this is shaping up to be the second summer in a row where Nork's hot-dog stand is absent from Big Bay.

Bummer...

Nork had the most extravagantly expensive sausage-on-a-bun I've ever seen; ten bucks! Are you kidding me?!

She also had an advantage. When you took the scenic route from Owen Sound to Wiarton along Grey Road 1,  as thousands of tourists do every summer, Nork's Pork had the only solid food available on that forty kilometre stretch, and it was strategically located right beside the ice cream joint in Big Bay.

And while ten bucks for a glorified hot-dog seems kinda steep, I have to admit you got good value for your money. All top-shelf local ingredients, from the sausages to the condiments. And huge! Me and the Farm Manager could split one and we'd both waddle away satisfied.

Dinner for two for ten bucks is actually not a bad deal.


So where is Nork's Pork?