Thunder Bay – Saturday – Make Your Dream Come True Day

Sign says “open” but its around 7:30 am on a Saturday morning. I’m going to give this a “false”.  I doubt if its open. Once again, no glorious sunrise this morning. When you are desperate, you photograph anything. Smell the glove. Yes, its as cold as this looks. Water bottle photo.  Nobody seems to care … Read more

Thunder Bay – Friday – Quitters Day

No sunrise this morning. Waterfront art gallery construction site A missed focus produces something colourful. These tourists from Switzerland picked a bad time to visit Canada.   Not the best time of year for a camping road trip across Canada especially right now with the Polar Vortex hitting the prairies. I am sure its cozy warm … Read more

The World – More EVs Spontaneously Bursting Into Flames

 Yes, nobody mentions the fact that this can happen.  Insurance costs (home and auto) for EV owners are going to be high. Then there are the electric buses.  How long before our high salaried residents of City Hall decide the time is right to get a couple of these potential crematoriums on wheels … Read more

Thunder Bay – Thursday – International Thank You Day

Clear sky with low clouds over the giant. Cold as well. The sun peeks out fo the clouds and so the day begins Still no Druids showing up. Work continues on the $57 million and counting  “mistake on the lake” waterfront art gallery.    

Thunder Bay – Wednesday – Peculiar People Day (US)

A couple of centuries of experience dealing with snow clearing on city streets and sidewalks and we get this.  We have a competition between the road clearing crew and the sidewalk clearing crew .  One pushed the snow one way and the other pushes it back. This happens several times over several days after a … Read more

Thunder Bay – Tuesday – International Choreographers Day

The joys of being a pedestrian in Thunder Bay.  Sidewalks turn into an obstacle course come winter.  I can’t imagine a disabled pedestrians trying to get from point A to point B  with city workers throwing snow back onto freshly plowed sidewalks.  Then there are the wall of snow produced by graders at every intersection … Read more

Thunder Bay – Monday – Typing Day

Another feral mitten.  I see lost mittens every day. Had to wait for a train this morning.  It was a very long one.  They always are when weather conditions are awful.  Cold this morning. City lights bouncing off of the clouds Not going to be an amazing sunrise this morning. There was some colour out … Read more

THe World – The Hidden Costs Of EV Ownership

 The cost of EV ownership is only going to go up.  High vehicle purchase cost, insurance costs  (both auto and home), repair costs, possible required  upgrades to your home electrical infrastructure,  the eventual rise of the cost of electricity and the fire hazard problem are never mentioned by the EV cultists. Buyer beware.  Me?  … Read more

Thunder Bay – Saturday – World Day of War Orphans

Well, all of you that wanted it snow, I hope you are happy.  You got your bloody snow.  Hurray! Yippee! Now you can see how important that sign warning traffic  of a median is.  Without the sign, you cannot tell the median is there. Drifting snow. Ah yes. The Water Street fire station.  I love … Read more