Good morning, Northern Michigan.
This is Cup of Traverse City for the
12/30/2025,
and it's the 2025.
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, as if you
didn't already know that.
But,
anyway,
let's get to the weather. Of course, it
snowed a lot yesterday.
Today, snow showers likely mainly after 1PM, cloudy
with a high near 22, and
northwest wind 10 to 15 miles
an hour, and precipitation
is 70%
possible. Total daytime accumulation
around an inch possible. I think that's mostly,
lake effects. So, you know, your mileage may
vary as they say.
Tonight, snow showers, steady temperature around 20, northwest
wind five to 10, chance precipitation
is 90%, new snow accumulation of around two
inches. Again, it's lake effect, so you may
get zero and you might get a foot.
You know how that goes.
And, tomorrow snow showers high near 22 northwest
wind 10 to 15 miles an hour with
gusts as high as 30.
Now that's gonna be blowing stuff around, but,
new snow about an inch
possible. But, of course, you know, in the
drifting areas, it's, you know, is what it
is. It's Traverse City or Northern Michigan
or yeah. Whatever.
Alright.
Story I picked out today was, something I
ran across
just kinda accidentally.
I'm sure you've heard of Francisco's
market in Delhi.
They're up at the top of Green Hill.
Of course, people don't call it Green Hill
anymore, but, Silver Lake Road, that big hill,
you know, heading out of town towards,
Long Lake.
And
you've got a little shopping center at the
top of the hill there kinda where the
there's a hardware store, kitty corner across the
road. There's a little Mexican
place that used to be Green Hill grocery.
Okay. Now I'm getting into history here.
But,
that shopping center, the the first half of
the building is Francisco's
market in Deli.
And, you know, they have all the all
the good stuff, you know, they got a
a deli and
they got, you know,
sandwiches and all the all the good stuff,
you know, meatballs, love the meatballs.
But, anyway, so Francisco's
is expanding.
They're gonna open a store on the East
Side.
But when I say open a store, they're
not really opening a store. They're sort of
taking over Bayside Market.
That's the
the little place there kinda near the,
head near the state park,
on the East Side of the state park.
And next door is that,
I call it a Mexican place, but it's
not.
Now I'm just drawing a blank, but there's
a restaurant right next door.
Used to be GT's Billiard Hall,
for those of you that have been around
here a while.
But, anyway, Francisco's
is expanding
with the second location on the East Side
Of Traverse City.
And, you know, I don't know if it's
a takeover or a partnership
or what. They call it a partnership with
two friends,
identified as Dan and Kim. So I don't
know who Dan and Kim are, but,
they're gonna, you know, keep what Bayside has.
You know, they have seafood was kind of
their thing. You know, they have,
you know, shrimp and
and lobsters
and crab legs and, you know, also kind
of a full deli sorta menu and and,
of course, they're a liquor store and beer
store and all that. So
but, anyway,
they also,
they're also the camp store for the state
park, which is kinda interesting. They have one
little section that has, you know, like RV
stuff.
And
that's,
you know, they must have partnered with the
with the state park. But,
yeah. So that's gonna be interesting having, Francisco's
on this side of town. They're just renaming
it slightly. It's gonna be called
Francisco's
Bayside.
So
I don't know if they're doing any renovations
just yet.
Didn't look any different when I drove by
there the other day. I'd because I didn't
know anything about it.
But,
yeah, it's just another
another local business doing their thing. And, you
know, Francisco's up on the hill there
is a pretty
pretty nice place.
And, you know, when I used to eat
such things, they have really good no bake
cookies.
That's kind of what I would do.
Go out
to mom's and do, do snow blowing. And
then on the way home, I'd stop at
Francisco's and get a no bake cookie as
my treat.
But
I'm doing better not doing that.
Francisco's,
I don't know if they started in interlocking
or if
or what the deal is, but I do
remember them being in interlocking.
There's that little party store, I call it
a party store,
that kind of looks like a pole barn
that's just before you get to the music
camp.
They're in Interlochen
on
Matty Highway or whatever they call it, M
137
or I don't remember. They keep changing the
name of that. I think it's called Matty
Parkway or something now.
But,
anyway, that that has not you know, that's
not called Francisco's
now.
It's,
it's something else, but they still have the
same sort of stuff
in there.
But, anyway, they opened that store on the
on the top of the hill there probably
ten years ago, maybe a little longer than
that.
And, they said now they're expanding
on the East Side.
I live on the East Side, so maybe
I'll have to frequent them a little more
frequently,
if that's, the way to put that. Anyway,
be safe out there. Drive carefully, and we
will catch you tomorrow.