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Lake Erie Storm off Vermilion
A quick house hunting trip to Vermilion produced no new home June 6; it did, however, produce the opportunity to photograph a storm moving in across Lake Erie. I love the beautiful scenes the lake produces and that is, primarily, why living near the coast is something I think I’d like. Sun, clouds, and water are constantly changing and when a storm is involved those changes happen rapidly.
Against the Coming Storm
I (stupidly) didn’t have my DSLR gear with me but was carrying my trusty iPhone 6SE with its tiny but mighty internal camera. As winds rose, I was able to make a panorama of the lake scene (above) and a nice portrait of the Vermilion Lighthouse brightly popping against the darkening sky.
I’ll try and remember to bring the “big guns” with me from now on as we seek a new home out there, somewhere….
After many years of saving we finally have amassed enough to finance a nice redo to our condo’s kitchen. There will also be new flooring installed through most of the rest of the place but the kitchen is the focus. Today, promptly at 8:00, the contractor arrived and began the demolition phase. With a minimum of commentary, here are a few photos of what transpired this first day….
Two big guys and a Sawzall tear into the base cabinets. Yes, the dishwasher was saved for reuse!
The ceiling comes down pretty easily.
The ceiling was hiding a nasty surprise — the original builder hacked a big hole in a joist to accommodate an electrical conduit. Our guys fixed it.
Hmmm… the plans say to move the drain eight inches to the right.
Old shop lights gone, new recessed lighting goes in. It will be a bright workspace!
At the end of the day, new lights in place, new power cables pulled, ready for a new ceiling!
The day dawned overcast but soon cleared to an amazing, dazzling intensely blue sky. We spent most of the day around the house: She, cooking, I finishing the publishing project. I ventured outdoors with camera in hand to enjoy the sunlight, shadows, textured snow, and fresh 45-degree (F) air.
Next to the door sits a planter, until recently covered in more than three feet of piled snow. The now-icy white stuff retreated gradually all day exposing a hopeful sign of spring… tiny green shoots poking out of the wet ground and out from under the miniature glacier.
We knew in our hearts those tough little plants would be waking up, even under the deep drifts; after all, they do it every spring. Still, it was good to see on this excellent, sunny day.
The weather forecasters got this one entirely correct for us: this morning we woke to about a foot of snow on the ground, piled up higher, in places, by moderate winds. Pretty, in some ways, but good motivation to stay indoors and do the things we should be doing. I managed to complete my publishing project Friday and mail it off to the printers before the roads got too bad — bought provisions, too, at a store unusually busy with shoppers doing the same. I was supposed to be at work today, but they did not open today due to the severe weather. That left today for me to create and publish the Web version of the same project. Whew! Done at last. (At least until I take delivery of the finished product.) I took a break during the day to dig us out of the winter wonderland at least temporarily. She Who Must Be Obeyed spent a good part of the day cleaning house –essentially sterilizing the bathrooms– finding herself exhausted by late afternoon. I'll be doing the cooking and, at Her request, it will be baked spaghetti. Add a little Ravenswood Zinfandel and we'll have a nice little dinner. I'll bet we watch The Simpsons Movie tonight. All in all, it'll have been a good Saturday — a busy, snowy day!
UPDATE: Dinner was pretty much as expected except we enjoyed glasses of Rabbit Ridge Bunny Cuvee with our baked spaghetti and broccoli and She insisted I make oatmeal cookies. Very comforting meal, that! At about 8 PM I went out to shovel the sidewalk to "keep up." I was greeted by another eight inches of fresh snow and drifts as high as this afternoons! You mightn't have believed me if I'd said I'd dug that car out earlier! So I dug it out again. The saving grace was the snow, having fallen in 20 to 23 degree temps, was fluffier than before. Still… a three-foot drift is a lot of snow. That's all for tonight!
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