Thursday September 7, 2017

Blog time 1130 at Panera:

It was cold this morning, low 50s.  Up at 0630, it was dark, sun not up until 0714.  This morning I am heading to the blood lab to get some tests done.  No food until after the test.  Arrived at lab at 0730 and was out in 20 minutes.

Changed into bike clothes, packed a rain suit in backpack and headed to the Y.  My weather app said I should expect to run into some rain.  The app was wrong.

The Y was crowded.  Everyone back from vacation or cottage because all classes were full.  In fact some classes were held on the basketball court or outside because the class rooms are too small. Big design flaw!

The Alpena News reported two large ship wrecks were discovered in about 200 feet of water in Lake Huron near Alpena.  The ships were both bulk freighters.  One ship the “Ohio” was built in 1875 of wood.  It was 200 ft long. The other named the “Choctaw” was 266 feet long.  No mention if the Choctaw was wood or iron.  Collision was the reason for their sinking.

My Grandmother Hughes’ brother, James McTavish was a captain on a Great Lakes freighter.  He became estranged from the family so I know nothing about him.  I had a classmate who spent years sailing on the Great Lake check union logs to see if he could locate him, no luck.  I checked several websites but came up empty.

The London papers contained no significant news only fluff.  

Was it a good move by POTUS to bypass the Senate and House GOP leadership?  Politicians have long memories.

We spent some time in the afternoon getting tickets to San Jose for our Oct trip to see Debbie.  Also called our AC firm to get a PM done on our furnace.  Speaking of furnace, we used it several days ago to take the chill off the house.

Heavy rains passed through this afternoon.  During the rain we had twelve turkeys seek refuge under our big pine tree.  The rain only last about an hour.  So far this year we have not had an all day rain.

For dinner we headed to Brann’s.  I had a bowl of soup and Nancy a turkey sandwich.  I ate half of Nancy’s sandwich.

Kathi called Nancy after dinner and asked if Nancy could help her get ready for a sale in the Detroit area.  Nancy headed out.  I took Ms P on a short walk and then watched two guy shows, Hell on Wheels, Frontier, on Netflix.