Icy Tuesday Morning
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 9:24 am[*]Good morning from the icy 45th. It’s 34° outside and we have a glaze of ice out there. The forecast called for a glaze to 1/10 of an inch of ice last night and instead we had about 30 minutes of freezing rain early this morning and it’s coated everything in ice. The county is out treating the roads, Schools are closed all over the whole northern half of the lower peninsula. I don’t have to go anywhere, so I don’t care. It will probably start to break down as the day goes on and the temperature rises. I do have a Tech from my HVAC/Plumbing place coming to see why my water softener has stopped regenerating. But I’m hoping he’ll wait until the roads get better. He supposed to come this morning but I don’t have a time. They don’t usually schedule a time because they don’t know for sure how long it’s going to take them on any given job unless you are the first one on the list. I’ve been doing business with them for a long time, so I know all the guys and everybody. They know that I am always flexible. But when they are coming in the morning, I always make sure that I am up and dressed by 7:30. They start work at 8 o’clock, but it is not unusual for them to call me before then, to say they will be out shortly. Sometimes they are in my driveway by 8 o’clock. 
I went to town yesterday and did my grocery shopping and errands and all that stuff, so since I am not going out today. I’m going to touch up little nail holes that I ut some spackling on, on my in living room walls. That won’t take long. Maybe I might even get into doing my bedroom today. I am also trying to figure out where to put up the two shelves that I had made from that log slab I have. Either in my bedroom or in the living room. I think I posted a post about that log slab a while ago. But for those who did not see the pictures, here is the
finished product. This slab is over a century old so it is a piece of history as well. This area goes back to the old logging days of the White Pine. I believe that it was cut at one of the mills that used to be along the Shoreline of Otsego Lake. The village of Otsego Lake was established in 1872 and was about a mile to my north. It is heyday it was a pretty thriving community and had a mill along the Lake. As the railroad progressed north another small community went up on the north east side of Otsego Lake and that to had lumber mills. So it is from one of these mil that I suspect this log came from. In floated out and eventually got so waterlogged that it sank to the bottom of the lake and eventually got covered with sediment. About 10 years ago, we had some low water levels, and the boat traffic stirred up the bottom and logs popped up. There is a lot of logging history in this area and the lakes around here have logs and stumps and stuff in them from that era. You can see in the second picture, the rounded edge, indicating this was a first cut from the log.
Rita, nice to see that you were finally on your way south for a while. Sounds like you guys had really been having a winter up there. You’ve probably got all the snow that we were normally have or used to. Beth, your new volunteer position sounds interesting.
No other news here so I guess I will get busy. Just wanna wish you all a nice day.
I went to town yesterday and did my grocery shopping and errands and all that stuff, so since I am not going out today. I’m going to touch up little nail holes that I ut some spackling on, on my in living room walls. That won’t take long. Maybe I might even get into doing my bedroom today. I am also trying to figure out where to put up the two shelves that I had made from that log slab I have. Either in my bedroom or in the living room. I think I posted a post about that log slab a while ago. But for those who did not see the pictures, here is the
finished product. This slab is over a century old so it is a piece of history as well. This area goes back to the old logging days of the White Pine. I believe that it was cut at one of the mills that used to be along the Shoreline of Otsego Lake. The village of Otsego Lake was established in 1872 and was about a mile to my north. It is heyday it was a pretty thriving community and had a mill along the Lake. As the railroad progressed north another small community went up on the north east side of Otsego Lake and that to had lumber mills. So it is from one of these mil that I suspect this log came from. In floated out and eventually got so waterlogged that it sank to the bottom of the lake and eventually got covered with sediment. About 10 years ago, we had some low water levels, and the boat traffic stirred up the bottom and logs popped up. There is a lot of logging history in this area and the lakes around here have logs and stumps and stuff in them from that era. You can see in the second picture, the rounded edge, indicating this was a first cut from the log.
Rita, nice to see that you were finally on your way south for a while. Sounds like you guys had really been having a winter up there. You’ve probably got all the snow that we were normally have or used to. Beth, your new volunteer position sounds interesting.
No other news here so I guess I will get busy. Just wanna wish you all a nice day.
