A FEW FRIDAY MORNING PHOTOS

GROANER'S CORNER:((  A psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dogs IQ.   Heres how it works: if you spend $29.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

WELL, NO SURPRISE THERE EH!!

DARK EYED JUNCO

The inch of snow on the ground crunched underneath each footstep as Pheebs and I made our way to the Jeep this morning.  Roads were a mixture of ice, snowy slush, and road salt.  Skies were overcast with a few small patches of blue skies here and there.  Temps were hovering around 28F.  No snow in the air with brisk winds coming in off the vast open waters of Lake Huron.

OUR FRONT YARD THIS MORNING

Goderich's Rotary Cove Road is still closed after last Sunday's storm.  I suspect they have a big clean-up going along that road.  Waves bashing the shoreline have been huge.  Saw a large freighter standing offshore.  Couldn't quite figure out if it was coming or going.  No smoke coming out of the stack so it may not have been under power.

NO, THIS WINTER SCENE DID NOT SET OFF ANY CHRISTMAS CAROLS IN MY HEAD

A LOT OF ROAD SALT ON THE ROADS

I WASN'T SURE IF THIS LARGE FREIGHTER WAS LEAVING OR COMING INTO GODERICH'S HARBOR

THIS IS A SECTION OF THE RE-BUILT SHORELINE

THIS TUGBOAT (RIGHT) HEADING OUT OF THE HARBOR MAY BE ON ITS WAY TO ASSIST THAT LARGE FREIGHTER BACK-UP INTO THE HARBOR

Pheebs and I were home shortly after 10 with only one brief cold and windy stop along the way.  Wednesday's temps are predicted to be around 50F.  We'll see.  Skies partially cleared this afternoon and how nice of course to see the Sun again.  Our dusting of overnight snow is slowly melting.

ROADS STILL SLOPPY ON OUR WAY BACK TO BAYFIELD

SOME OF THAT ROAD SURFACE IS ICE

A HEAVY CLOUD COVER FOR MOST OF THE DAY

Since our weather has turned snowy cold, our birdfeeders are working overtime and I am kept busy keeping enough seeds in the feeders for the hungry gang of birds we have flocking in.  Blue Jays, Cardinals, Juncos, Finches, Woodpeckers, Mourning Doves, Black Cap Chickadees, Tufted Titmouse, and a few other Sparrow like birds I don't recognize.

FEMALE CARDINAL

MALE CARDINAL

BLUE JAY

RED BELLIED WOODPECKER

RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH

I KEEP FORGETTING WHAT BIRD THIS IS

JUNCO

Here's something kind of interesting for Canadian Snowbirds crossing the border (by air) heading south in the area of Plattsburgh New York.  Snowbirds Crossing the Border.  By the way, the border closure has now been extended to December 21rst.  Well, no surprise there eh!!

DOWNIE WOODPECKER

GROANER'S CORNER:((   It’s my wife’s birthday soon and she’s been leaving jewelry catalogs all over the house.  She'll be happy to know I got the hint.  I got her a magazine rack!

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MAYBE FROM NONSENSE TO SOMESENSE (NO THIS IS NOT POLITICAL)

Thought we might have a substantial accumulation of snow on the ground this morning but that was not the case.  Under a weather advisory, 'Snow Squall Watch' Pheebs and I headed east to Clinton's Tim Hortons for a drive-thru coffee.  The coffee shop is near a high school so of course, on this freezing cold day, there were some of the kids prancing down the street in shorts with icy winds driving our 33F temps down to 25F.  Yes, I well remember my utter foolishness at that age as well. 

THIS IS AN OLD QUANSET HUT STILL STANDING ON THE SITE OF CLINTON ONTARIO'S TOP SECRET RADAR BASE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

AND HERE'S A LINK TO THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE RADAR BASE BACK IN THE 1940s

THE OLD RADAR DOME STILL STANDS

From Clinton, we wandered east a short ways before swinging south and back west again.  Stopped at the Bannockburn Conservation Area but the morning's icy winds made it too freezing cold for a hike.  We did get out for a short walk around the parking lot though.  'Brrrrrr'

BECAUSE OF THE ICY COLD WIND WE DIDN'T CONTINUE ANY FURTHER

PHEEBS FINDS SOME INTERESTING SMELLS

SKIFFS OF SNOW ALONG THE EDGE OF THE FOREST

From Bannockburn, with a few light squalls coming in off the lake we headed for home and once again therein ended another cold and gray day.  Wished I was more optimistic about this upcoming winter.........but I'm not.  If you don't see a post from me every day from here on in just know that I will try again the following day.

SOON ALL THIS WILL BE COVERED IN A BLANKET OF WHITE SNOW

With my reading still in the mainstream of UFOs and Extraterrestrials, I just finished 'Unknown Skies' by Leslie Kean along with 'A New World' by Leslie Streiber as well as 'The Dual Soul Connection' by Suzy Hansen and Dr. Rudy Schilde.  I am currently reading 'The Communion Letters' by Whitley Streiber and the late Ann Streiber.  These books go far beyond the frivolous little green men from Mars theories.   Along the way I stumbled across an interesting video about an Anti-Gravity Theory regarding the propulsion of UFOs.  In this current era of so much nonsense, maybe this actually makes somesense.

GROANER'S CORNER:((  Two tons of human hair was stolen from a wig factory.  The police said they were combing the area.

I can't stop talking about the apocalypse. Armagedodon too old for that!

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