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	October 17th through 20th, 1996

We arrived on Thursday with several missions in mind. Carving pumpkins was the primary undertaking, but there was also tossing those carved pumpkins off the fire tower, laundry, covering a boat, eating at Duck's, and checking on the lake temperature (48°F).

Much of Friday was spent canoeing around the North end of the lake checking on the fish and ice. There is no ice. There are some huge fish. While standing on the dock after pulling the canoe out, Mrs Nemo and I saw a huge Brown Trout gliding 20 feet from shore with its upper fin above the water like a shark. It looked to be close to a yard long. I have never seen such a large fish in Lake Lucerne ever.

We went to Duck's on Friday, but got distracted on the way by the new tank at the courthouse.

Prying the kids off of it to get to the restaurant before it closed was no small task.

Duck's featured fish and two soups. Ham Wild Rice Chowder was okay. The Cream of Mushroom rocks.

There are other Friday worthy items on the Duck's menu, most notably the shrimp and chicken dinners, but we stuck with the fish. With potato pancakes!

The service at Duck's is some of the finest in the northwoods.

One of us ordered the Shrimp Dinner. I stole two when she wasn't looking. They were pretty good.

Pumpkin carving was done on Friday night. We usually do this on Saturday, but one of us had to leave early Saturday to go see the Badgers loose to Northwestern 34 to 30.

Designs this year were inspired and well executed.

The finished carvings were arranged on the dock and candled up.

Some of us grew bored with the display and found some larger fireworks, crammed them into pumpkin holes, and lighted them. The results were horrific for the pumpkins and entertaining for us.

On Sunday morning, the burnt remains were hauled to the top of the fire tower at Sugarbush Hill and tossed off. Extra points are given if the tosser's pumpkin hits the "slab".

Sunday's weather was warm, wonderful, and seemingly engineered for running around like lunatics.

Lawns look good for now, but if this weather keeps up, they may require another mowing before the snow falls.

Cabins 1, 2, and 3 at Timber Shores Resort were buttoned up for the the season.

As were 4 and 5.

While hiking back to Knott Lane, Mrs Nemo stopped often to closely examine some interesting rocks.

By the time we had to leave, the clouds were coming in and the wind was picking up. The Green Bay Packers are 6 and 1, but more importantly the home team has a bye this week. Driving through Green Bay will not have any game traffic clogging I-43. It's forecast to get much colder. We'll be back in a week or two to check for lawn snow and lake ice.<br><br><br>-Nemo's a little apprehensive about swimming ever again after seeing that fish.

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