Summer Season 2017 Is Here

The Beach House at Michigan Beach - Open for Summer 2017

 The calendar is telling me that its summer. The extra people in town are saying its summer. The fact that my restaurant is open and I'm cooking food tells me that its summer. The weather is NOT saying that its summer! Typical Northern Michigan!

  I am writing this from the very middle of the Memorial Day/Opening Weekend of the 2107 Summer Season. Its still pretty chilly down at Lake Michigan Beach but the sun's been out so its doable. Or rather would be if it weren't for the biblical plague of tiny black gnat-like things called Midges that have descended on the lake side environs of northern lower Michigan like some cloud from Hades. Thank goodness they don't bite! However they land on and stick to everything and everybody- tables, benches, trees, grass, buildings, people..... The swarms are so thick that you have to hold your breath walking or they will get in your mouth and nose. This is NOT conducive for outdoor dining. Or outdoor anything....
  So for our opening weekend my loyal can't-wait-for-those-fries customers are covering their noses and mouths against Midges, running to the window to order take out and hurrying back to their cars as fast as they can. Kind of a let down for all of us. This horde of awful winged demons should only last another couple of days and then we'll all enjoy the patio, the lake breezes and the fresh beach air.

Happy Summer Ya'll