We had a lot of activity in the neighborhood today. Two tugs just came to clear the ice and then pull the Eira coal ship back out to the gulf. Friday I took this shot of the bridge building crane operator coming down for his lunch break. Quite the commute! It was below freezing and light snow too.
Certainly puts the sense of working for a living in perspective. The most impressive thing was watching the crane assemblers a few months ago, in similar winter conditions - one climbed all the way to the peak of the structure and set the cables to balance the whole thing. I do hope they are making really good money.
Gerald is doing great. Almost two weeks since his gall bladder surgery and only one setback involving breaded/fried meat Friday, which he will need to avoid from now on. He's doing fine with most everything else, and has through this week off work too to get his energy back up. We're still in winter here and we haven't had the temperature swings they've had in the midwest. Just hovering around 30F, inching up by tenths of degrees, and not too much sun yet. But the paper reports today that migratory birds are beginning to return now, so that's a sign of things to come. This winter has definitely seemed longer than last, so the spring will be that much more welcome.
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