Rain,fog, ice jam

 Rain:   It is raining quite hard as I write,  there is also the possibility of a thunderstorm. Mother nature mixed up or what!!!!

Fog: With the warm! not really warm but certainly warmer than the snow.  As it is causing fog to appear floating over the the sold snow,  the breeze blowing it, so it;s looking more like smoke than fog.

Ice jam:  Yesterday was a beautiful day, sunshine and temp up to 11*C so we decided to go for a ride to look at the ice jam at a lakeside port not far from us.  A river flows into Lake Erie at this port, and obviously being fresh water the river always freezes over with ice about a foot thick.   With the recent mild temps and rain earlier in the week, the water rose and the ice broke up.  Flooding the banks the water and slabs of ice picked up trees, boat docks that had been taken out of the marina and placed on the shore,  canoes, BBQ's and other bits and bobs on the shore.   When this flow of  debre almost reached the lake, fishing vessels stopped the flow of everything, stopped it in its tracks and it piled up.  The lift bridge was opened so not as to damage it.  There will be a big mess to clean up when the weather breaks.   This has happened in previous years, but there does not seem to be any way to avoid the ice jam.  After we had looked at the ice etc, we took a nice stroll along the beach.  Apparently, frozen sand does not stop little ones to bring their pails and shovels to play in the snow. Cannot be much fun dressed in warm snow suits, boots and mitts.   There were a lot of dead trees and limbs which had been left on the shore from the waves whipped up by the high winds earlier in the year.

Groceries this morning, the cereal aisle  is still quite empty, but did not find the price of fresh fruit and veg up, some was even lower than I have seen  them.  
 

Time to close this down, going to do some sewing.