Another long ass Ohio winter!

[Instigator]

Way cold this morning!

[1954bmw]

Hey Gator, what's with the sock on the dog???

[CDave]

19deg. with 50% humidity this AM.

[Forkin' Crazy]

15 here at 10AM. I took an old foam ice chest, but a hole in it and stuffed it full of towels and put it on the south side of the house out of the wind. Been feeding them as much as they will eat also.

Been running the infrared propane heater all morning on high. Dog is sleeping in front of it.

Dog is a good bed dog. I call him the "Bed Hog Dog" because I find myself on the edge. I try to point his feet away from me. When he starts dreaming he will kick the chit out of you.

[Instigator]

He has a bum leg and we cover it when he goes out in the snow.

Hey Gator, what's with the sock on the dog???

[Instigator]

Forecast for Pelee Island, middle of Lake Erie.

BTW, 7 meters = 23’!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/winds...atch-1.6695810

[Forkin' Crazy]

He has a bum leg and we cover it when he goes out in the snow.

I was wondering how that was going. I am lucky with mine. He cost me a good bit at first with meds... had Lyme's disease.... TWICE. But all is goo now.

Check out https://doggiedailies.com/

I have been giving Charlie Hip and Joint support, Probiotics, and Multivitamins... And I CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE.

I ask him if he wants a snack, and he jumps around like a puppy!

[FUJIMO]

...imagine living on pelee right now...

[OnPad]

Merry Christmas Guys.

I got a new pup last spring, after my old dog kicked the bucket. Sure turned out to be a handful. Came down with parvo at six months, cost me a small fortune! Luckily
he pulled through.

[CDave]

Merry Christmas!

[FUJIMO]

...lake erie "seiche" going on right now. lowest water level on record they say. crazy...

[Instigator]

Yep.

Wanted to drive up to see but wife says it too cold.

When the wind comes out of the south, it sucks the water out of the south coast of Erie.

Did it several yrs back but in season.
Thousands of boats and docks sitting on dry lake bottom!

On Pelee, I fantasized of owning a house there.
But after 4 decades of boat/visiting there, it is a good way to see an out of touch government destroy a tiny community w/it’s big city directives.

A friend has a third generation beach front cottage there and due to Covid, and being a Yankee, he was not allowed to visit there for 2 yrs!

Yrs ago, the Plain Dealer (Cleveland newspaper) sent a reporter there to spend a winter w/her teen age daughter and write about it.
I couldn’t wait for her entries to be posted each wk!

Ended up writing a book about her experience, which I bought and read.

Middle Island, is the next island south of Pelee, still in Canadian water and uninhabited.
Came up for sale a couple decades back but….

Anyhow, in books on the history of the islands, there has been mentioned, that Middle island was a stopover point for bootleggers from Canada during the prohibition era.

Supposedly is remains of the foundation for the speakeasy/bordello owned by the big mobster of the era.

I have never met, read any first hand evidence of its existence.

20 yrs ago I anchored off the island then dinghied in to search but failed to penetrate its thick, overgrown perimeter, in my swimsuit and flip flops ��

Using recent satellite images of the island I have found what appears to be ruins of a foundation though, opposite side of island that they thought.

Next summer I’ll try again, this time w/hiking boots and a machete!

Very, very rich history up there.
Starting with Indians dragging white folks into the woods, never to be seen again.

...lake erie "seiche" going on right now. lowest water level on record they say. crazy...

[FUJIMO]

...the seiche record low water level is all the way up the detroit river. relatives live on the water & sent me pics. not in they're lifetime have they seen it this low. weird...

[CDave]

[Forkin' Crazy]

I hear ya on the water being blown out. Went fishing on Calcasieu Lake one day, and then into the marsh. On the Big Lake side. It pulled the water out of the marsh, and the lake was rolling. So shallow we couldn't even get the flat boat on plane. So we got as close as we could, put the push pole in the mud, tied the boat to it, AND WALKED OUT!!! THROUGH THE MARSH!!!

The bad thing was, WE HAD TO WALK BACK OUT THERE TO GET THE BOAT the next day.

And once we got there, we just went back to fishing for red fish in the marsh.

CDave knows. He lives down there.