The wood has begun to go vertical. Now our new home should be framed within another week. Shingled shortly after, and I am told the windows are already here (windows were a three week wait for my daughter’s house). No material shortages in sight. Really feeling so much better…. feeling real. Yay Eastbrook!
Month: February 2021
Feb 23rd: First wood
So it begins.
Feb 22nd: Maybe no real ice this year
The westerly finally arrived. But so did temperatures slightly above freezing. The hoped for ice did not blow ashore, nor accumulate with wave action. With no more cold weather forecast, we may be out of luck for spectacular ice formations. On the positive side, our new home should begin to be framed this week.
Feb 19th: Cooking with Fire
What to do on a cold, snowy, lazy day? Not much feeling the writing bug today. So time to read. Got my 200+ page Cooking with Fire book. So much to learn about creating perfect pizzas in my new Ooni Koda 16. But also, my pizza oven will become an all purpose cooking tool replacing…
Feb 18th: Waiting
Lack of a west wind has meant the arrival of Lake Michigan shore ice is still on hold. Just a little bit from light wave action along the coast. Our other personal wait remains seeing progress on the new home. We drove by Hathaway Lakes yesterday. Where we celebrated the six month anniversary of our…
Feb 15th: The worst of it
The worst weather of the year. A foot of snow here, a foot of snow there. And a cold wave keeping the high temperatures under 15 degrees Fahrenheit, so salt doesn’t melt the road ice. Who would live here year round? That’s the thinking we love! This is the moat that keeps the tourists from…
Feb 12th: Pizza oven arrives
My Ooni Koda 16 pizza oven arrived a month early today. When our new home is finally built, it will be installed on our deck and hooked up to natural gas. Several months ago I told my wife I wanted a pizza oven instead of a gas grill. She replied, “That has to be your…
Feb 10th: Beach Day!
Don’t ya love a Lake Michigan beach day in the winter? The ice continues to build in the frigid cold. More by the day. More by the hour. Now we just need a strong westerly wind to begin building those ice mountains. Can’t even see the beach anymore, but it is there, under the ice…
Feb 9th: Suddenly, winter!
Thus it begins. A foot and an half of snow, lots of it lake effect. More snow on the way. The ice just starting to arrive. With frigid temperatures for the next two weeks, we should see ice mountains, ice volcanoes and all sort of other cool formations. While in other parts of the country…
Feb 3rd: Is this boring?
Swans on the pond today with little wind. Every day, relaxing at the Grand Haven State Park, it never gets boring. Something a little different every single day. And yet, these photos become a bit… boring. Time to move up and down the coast more. Capture new subjects. And yet, when you are living here,…