Trip to Petoskey was a mixed bag of success. Didn’t find what I wanted at Hobby Lobby, but got some craft paint. Stopped at the Walmart there and found a plastic picture frame of the size I wanted, so grabbed that. I was looking for either a 9 x 12 or a 10 x 13 and I found a 10 x 13. It’s the glass I’m after. I wanted the acrylic, not regular glass. So for $5 I thought that would work perfectly. So I am going to incorporate it into the design of my shadow box. That is going to be today’s project. Since the weather is going to be so mild, I think I might cut out a couple of more bird patterns in the garage. And I might clean the inside of my truck.
Velda, I’m about 70 miles from Lake Huron. The object was shot down about 15 miles east of the Upper Peninsula, so that’s at least 100 miles from here. They think it may have drifted into Canadian waters. So from what I understand the coast guard is looking for the debris. It was flying out about 20,000 feet as compared to the Chinese balloon that was up at 40,000. They say that it had no kinetic military threat, but it’s height poised a threat to aircraft.
There was an accident up in town around noon yesterday and one of the vehicles that was involved hit a support wire for a power pole and bent the pole, snapping the power lines. That in turn knocked out the power to the traffic lights and businesses in the area there, until about 7 o’clock last night. That area includes the majority of our restaurants, Walmart and adjoining businesses in that strip mall, as well as Lowe’s, Home Depot and the majority of our businesses in the industrial park area. Haven’t heard what caused the accident. The weather was OK.
And now this morning I sit here listening to a police conference on the shooting at Michigan State University. 3 students killed and 5 in critical condition. The shooter was a 43 yea old man, but he is dead as well. Apparently shot himself. This will affect affect many communities within the state, including ours. Classes are canceled until next Monday.
We lost a community member here last week to a tragedy as well. A 32 year old man from Gaylord was ice climbing at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore when he was knocked off an icy ledge by a wave and fell into Lake Superior. The lake is not frozen up there this year although there is ice floating around in the water down there. After very intensive search by National Park Service and Coast Guard personnel the search was called off due to darkness and weather conditions. They made another attempt the next day but could not locate the body. So the search was suspended. This past Sunday the weather conditions were very favorable So they decided to try again and this time they did locate him. Lake superior is extremely cold. Except for the shallow bays and harbors around the Shoreline, you can’t really go swimming in the lake. You can get hypothermia in a matter of minutes. He was taking part in an annual ice climbing festival that is held up there every year. He was married but no children.
So, enough tragedy for this week. Time for me to go and take a shower and get my day moving along here. I wanna run the vacuum before I get into my shadow box project. Have a great day everyone.
