MIGHTY FINE LOOKING DAY BUT COLDER THAN THE HOBS OF HOOT

Started our day off at 16F with big bright sunny skies.  As the day progressed temps slowly rose and a cloud cover moved in leaving us with a Winter weather advisory bringing freezing rain and snow overnight and Tuesday.  I don't know what we will come up with yet for January and February of next year but we definitely have to figure out a way to get ourselves out of this cold miserable winter weather and back to the much healthier southern lifestyle we had been accustomed to for a number of years!!

WITH AN EAST WIND BLOWING, GODERICH'S PACK ICE HAS MOVED OFFSHORE AND FURTHER OUT INTO THE LAKE 

I HAVE YET TO CLIMB THESE STEPS TO THE PARK ABOVE.....BETTER PUT THAT ON MY BUCKET LIST

HAD NEVER SEEN THIS GODERICH STREET DESERTED BEFORE....REASON??  IT'S A LONG WEEK-END HERE IN CANADA CALLED 'FAMILY DAY'

THE ALGOMA INNOVATOR AT GODERICH'S SALT MINE

ICE IN THE HARBOR

LOOKS LIKE A SLIPPERY WALK ON THE PIER

ALGOMA INNOVATOR

THE ALGOMA ENTERPRISE IN PORT FOR THE WINTER

THAT'S A LOT OF ROPES HOLDING THE ALGOMA ENTERPRISE IN PLACE

NOTICED WATER BUBBLING IN SEVERAL PLACES AROUND THE SHIP'S STERN

EVEN PHEEBS NOTICED THE BUBBLING WATER

WATER IS BUBBLING AROUND THE LARGE PROPELLER AND TWIN RUDDERS SO I FIGURE AIR LINES ARE IN PLACE TO KEEP THE WATER FROM FREEZING AROUND THE PROPELLER AND RUDDERS IN CASE THE SHIP HAS TO BE FIRED UP AND MOVED

::Al's Musical Favs:: Compassion by Coyote Oldman.  A voice doesn't have to say anything to be heard and appreciated.

AN ICY WINTER'S BIRTH FOR THIS HARBOR TUG BOAT

GROANER'S CORNER:(( There were two evil brothers. They were rich and used their money to keep their ways from the public eye. They even attended the same church and looked to be perfect Christians. Then, their pastor retired and a new one was hired. Not only could he see right through the brothers' deception, but he also spoke well and true, and the church started to swell in numbers. A fundraising campaign was started to build a new assembly. All of a sudden, one of the brothers died. The remaining brother sought out the new pastor the day before the funeral and handed him a check for the amount needed to finish paying for the new building. "I have only one condition," he said. "At his funeral, you must say my brother was a saint." The pastor gave his word and deposited the check. The next day at the funeral, the pastor did not hold back. "He was an evil man," he said. "He cheated on his wife and abused his family." After going on in this vein for a small time, he concluded with, "But, compared to his brother, he was a saint."
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