A major change in the air and on the ground this week, including 3 ice breakers! The bay was still covered in ice so the Coast Guard Ice Breaker Samuel Risley cut a swath to let the cargo ships leave Owen Sound harbour. Pat was ice breaker #2, determined to clear the lane up the hill (tough work!). Breaker #3 chopped and pushed the ice in the pond to aerate. Two fish out of 30 have survived the brutal winter.
Then a rainstorm quickly melted much of the ice we worked so hard to remove. Then an all-day windstorm roughed up the bay and power lines. Most of our county lost electricity for 11 hours. This was really bad for us because we had just loaded up the fridge/freezer for the season. Two solutions: "dinner" was cooked on the Coleman camp stove (yes, note that the room was ventilated). And Ice Breaker #3 (see above paragraph) scooped out some pond ice (in the dark) to fill the coolers.
By week's end 99.9% of the ice was gone. The Samuel Risley again led a ship out, but what does an Ice Breaker do when there's no ice to break? Anyway, regular chores have begun --- the fun to enjoy up here in the sticks...
As usual, the male turkey wants to break the ice with some females. But for the rest of you, it's your last chance to get ice with that...
Then a rainstorm quickly melted much of the ice we worked so hard to remove. Then an all-day windstorm roughed up the bay and power lines. Most of our county lost electricity for 11 hours. This was really bad for us because we had just loaded up the fridge/freezer for the season. Two solutions: "dinner" was cooked on the Coleman camp stove (yes, note that the room was ventilated). And Ice Breaker #3 (see above paragraph) scooped out some pond ice (in the dark) to fill the coolers.
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