Sep 1 - a late arrival

David and Vanda arrived at midnight last night, about 4 hours after their ETA.  69 was closed at the French River bridge, apparently a fatality there; there was some accident south of 522 that was cleaned up and a major accident (don't know details) on 522 a little east of 69, perhaps by the Grundy Lake park turnoff / the general store.

I'd talked to them around 9:30 when they were 1km from the turnoff and apparently they didn't move for two hours after that.  Ugh ... but they're here safely.  Kyle was coming up last night too; not sure when he got here.

I'm almost cleaned up from a Granite Anvil expense standpoint.  I've got to send Jerry a check (a US cheque) since he doesn't have PayPal.  I paid Pete Dusel by PayPal.  Reconciling those expenses was a bear as I also wanted to get it all into Quicken and of course I hadn't updated the Randonneurs Ontario Quicken since late last year.  However, since 99% of the transactions were Granite Anvil related, it almost made no difference.  We normally only have a dozen or so transactions posted per year in the non-GA years.

I'm starting to get re-engaged in Randonneurs USA matters as well.  We've got apparel items on the go with Voler, upcoming elections, financials ... but nothing near as all-consuming as running a 1200k.  I talked to both Deb Banks and Paul Rozelle.  I do have to put together a Randonneurs Ontario budget for 2018; that should be relatively straightforward.

It's been cool or rather cold.  I went outside for a little while sitting down at the beach but it was too late in the day and not comfortable.  It's 45F right now and the sun is out.  It will warm up quickly -- the water is much warmer than the air right now.

I'm busy making banana bread.  I had a bunch of leftover bananas from the Granite Anvil.  Of course bananas are the minor and easiest ingredient in banana bread ... I'm just about out of sugar and baking powder :).  I've got dueling bread makers going; yes, I'm lazy.  They actually take a lot longer than using the oven.

4 loaves down, two in the hopper ... two will be for this weekend; two are already in the freezer that I'll take to Windsor next weekend.

Onward !