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when the sun goes down // huron county, canada // 2010-2012

[ladyvandaele]

Goderich Ontario

St. Christopher’s Beach

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CANADA ROAD  3

Aug 21 23

Between Goderich and Kincardine,

Lake Huron

Great Lakes

Ontario

Sunset 60 minutes ago

Today it was so rough with the waves and the wind that I just went in, fell over and couldn’t even begin to swim.  When the wind gets up, it gets harder to swim but the waves are lovely.  There was a walk along the dirt track here in between the cottages, with trees lining our way both sides of the road, hiding for the most part the dwellings either side of the road.  There were seven of us straggling along with the children at the front.  We found the creek that leads inland to the gorge.  There was a fairy garden, a flower garden and a friendly dog whose owner had lost his white cat.  We looked, but didn’t find her. 

We took the stairs down to the beach and walked back up the beach to our part of the beach.  There were decks and boat launches, chairs, bars, all kinds of wooden structure, all facing the lake, which feels like a sea, so vast into the distance, turquoise water.  There were our familiar seats facing out to sea waiting for us to sit and look.

We visited the Point Clark Lighthouse, after driving on the Main 21 Bluewater Highway, between miles and miles of green fields with crops like corn and potatoes.  The Lighthouse had a museum set in the windy point.  The museum documents he story of the generations of Lighthouse Keepers and their families, illustrated with old photographs. 

We could climb the old lighthouse tower, white and red, saving lives on the lakr.  There is an area of shoals off the coast here that the Lighthouse, and thus prevents ships from running aground.  The water is only five feet deep out in the channel. 

The Lighthouse system is still needed for shipping.  Originally eleven were required but only six were ever built.  Today they are automated but previously needed buckets of oil to keep running which had to be carried up the stairs in the dark without a hand rail.

The day was sunny and the flowers at the foot of the lighthouse were in full bloom on the shore and the traditional houses had wonderful displays of flowers all over the peninsula.

Sun set tonight happened as the sun slid gradually to the skyline through stripes of cloud, grey against fiery red, until below our sight. Goodnight!

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Yesterday in Goderich.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"FORCE PANHANDLERS TO SAW FOR MEALS," Toronto Star. March 28, 1933. Page 1. --- Goderich Buys Ten Cords of Hardwood ---- Special to The Star Goderich, March 28. - A polite invitation has been issued to unemployed transients to keep away from Goderich. Last night the welfare board purchased ten cords of four-foot hardwood. It is being placed in the rear of the town hall and each applicant for a meal ticket will be required to saw and split one-quarter of a cord before eating. The board unanimously carried a motion to this effect and at the same time asked citizens to turn down all requests for free meals.

With the approach of the opening of navigation it is hoped to discourage the annual influx of out-of-works by coupling the wood splitting requirement with the free meal ticket.

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

we're not black

[abbatoirablaze]

Grimm, Chapter 1

Word Count: 1.7k

Warnings:  coerced relationships, arranged marriage.

1981

Elizabeth looked at her friend, her woge nearly taking hold of her as the two shared a look.  Henrietta felt a blush crossing her cheeks and she looked down and away from the king of Spain.

“Why do you shy away, so?” he chuckled, reaching out to stroke the soft apple of her cheek, “are you afraid to look an old man in the eye?”

“I’m afraid that you’ll be afraid of me when you see what I really am,” she said softly, looking to him.  He bit back his own smirk before shooting a glance to his friend, and king of Austria, Frederick, “while the king of Austria seems smitten with Elizabeth, I know not of-“

“I have a similar taste,” he said simply, cutting the woman off as he removed his hand from her cheek and woged, revealing himself to be a muavais dentes, “show me your beauty, hexenbiest.”

She was shocked to see a member of the royal family was wesen, and more so to see it being a muavais dentes, as they were rare.  Her lips parted in a breathless gasp, and the big cat smiled.

“Do not be afraid, my beauty...I will not hurt you.”

She smiled, unable to play coy as her woge took over her face and she eyed the wesen down, “I have nothing to fear from a big pussycat.”

The light flickered over the king’s golden eyes as he eyed the hexenbiest ravenously, “I’m anything but a pussycat, mi amor.”

“What are you doing?” she asked, looking between the numerous attendants that had filed in and out of the room, “where are you going?  What is-“

Time stopped, and it felt like Henrietta’s ears popped. 

Her stomach started to contract once more, and she screamed as she felt her baby coming into the world. 

Time restarted, just like that, and the royal doctor nearly didn’t make it in time to catch the baby that came out of the hexenbiest. 

A crying noise filled the air, and the doctor gasped as he looked into the bright blue eyes of the baby he’d just delivered. 

What would normally be golden eyes for a mauvais dentes baby was ice blue for the one that Henrietta had just delivered.  And while she’d expected dark tufts of hair, she was shocked to see the smallest woge in her baby.  She was covered in short white hairs, with the pattern of the muavais dentes. 

“She’s beautiful...”

Tiredly, Henrietta looked at the king, and he was smiling proudly as he rushed into the room.  He kissed the top of her head, and she could hear the happy rumble emanating from his chest. 

“My king-“

“You’ve done well, my love,” he promised, pressing another kiss to the top of her head, before taking the baby girl from the doctor, “she’s gorgeous.  Even more perfect than I’d though-what’s wrong with her eyes?”

Henrietta looked at Fernando tiredly, “wh-what’s wrong with her eyes?”

“Muavais dentes have golden eyes when we woge.  Hers are ice blue...”

“She’s not all muavais, my king,” Henrietta reminded him, “she comes from me as well.”

“I just-I thought-“

“The most dominant genes come out,” she said simply, cutting him off without much thought as her eyes closed and she yawned, “but she is a hexenbiest as well...I felt it.  She stopped time right before she was born, my love...”

“a Muavais Dentes that stopped time,” he said wondrously, eyeing the newborn, “how curious...”

“What shall we name her, Fernando?” she asked softly, another yawn passing her lips as she found it harder and harder to open her eyes once more.

“The name we picked out, of course...Mariella, as she’ll be beloved by her people.  Francesca after your mother, Ada after my noble mother, and  De Espinosa for your family name and Rodriguez of mine.  And she is the princess of Spain.���

“Mariella Francesca Ada De Espinosa Rodriguez, princess of Spain,” she yawned, halfway asleep, “my king, that is a mouthful...”

“It is,” he chuckled admiringly as he looked at his daughter, who was already asleep and softly purring in his arms, “but it suits her.”

“It does...” Henrietta whimpered, drifting off to sleep, “it does.”

1984

“Papa...where is mommy?”

The king’s jaw held firm, and his wife looked at him expectantly. 

“Well, Fernando?”

“Jocelyn is your mommy, Mariella.”

The young three-year-old looked to her older brother, and the fourteen year old snarled at the Hexenbiest sitting opposite their father, “you are not her mother.  Just as you are not mine.  Nor are you Ferdinand-“

“Marnessier!” his father growled, woging in his eyes. 

Mariella nervously woged and clung to her eldest brother’s arm.  The seventeen-year-old put his arm around her, “calm yourself, Mariella...father isn’t going to hurt anyone.  You’re getting yourself worked up for nothing.”

“Papa...”

The king snapped out of his woge and frowned between his three children, “I have told the three of you that I have married Jocelyn, and that she is the queen, and your new mother...”

“I want my real mommy,” Mariella whimpered, leaning into her eldest brother as she began to sob, “I want-“

“Olivia, please remove Mariella,” the king commanded with a stern tone.  One of the many women who looked after the little girl appeared almost in an instant, but the fourteen year old rushed to her and swooped her up into his arms, “Marn-“

“I’ll take her to her room,” he growled, glaring at his father as his eyes woged, “she doesn’t need to be handed off like some broken toy because your new wife doesn’t get along with her.”

“She’s being a child!” Jocelyn groaned.

“She’s three,” Marnessier growled at the queen, “she is a child.”

“Marn-“

“I know, you don’t approve of me growling at your wife,” he grumbled, cutting his father off in an instant, “come on Mari...I’ll take you upstairs and get you bathed and put to bed...”

“But I’m hungry, Marney,” she whimpered softly as she tucked her face into her brother’s throat, “I-“

“Chef will make you something after your bath.”

Marnessier growled as the royal family from Austria tried to get closer to her.  He kept his little sister firmly behind him as his eldest brother Ferdinand joined his side, “What you are suggesting is sick.  She’s three.  He’s sixteen!”

“They wouldn’t be married right now, Marnessier,” Jocelyn giggled drunkenly as she sipped on the deep red glass full of wine, “it’s a business transaction...one where they just keep her in their castle instead of ours.”

“It’s not your castle,” Ferdinand growled, “and they aren’t going to be taking our little sister anywhere.”

“She was promised on the day of her birth to the son of Frederick, king of Austria, Fernando,” their father reminded the boys.  But both boys disregarded their father’s words, woging in front of the family members and staff that had been present for the trading off of the princess in exchange for loyalty to both families, “Fernando...Marnessier.  Back down, the both of you.  They were meant to take her back to their home in Austria so that she can be raised in her future country.”

“You all are sick!”

“It’s not like I’m all that happy about it either,” Eric groaned, “not only is she a Wesen, but she’s practically still a toddler.  My future wife is a baby.”

“Then reject the marriage!” Marnessier demanded.

But Eric only scoffed, “reject the marriage?  And let my father choose someone worse.  Or even more so, reject her and my father take away my right to the throne in the future.  I think not!”

“By going along with it you are say-“

“I’m not saying anything other than it is my duty to be party to whatever it is that my father and mother set up on my behalf,” he shrugged, not caring one way or the other, “this...just so happens to be it!”

“She will make a fine wife!” the queen commented sweetly, attempting to reach out her arms in hopes that the three-year-old would come towards her. 

But Marnessier and Fernando were both still fully woged, and glaring at the royals from Austria.

“Marnessier.  Fernando!”

They barely looked at their father once again as the king growled out their names.  They did, however, miss the fact that a stealthy little five-year old human had managed to sneak past them and was staring at the woged three year old with curiosity. 

She gave a little roar when his fingers grazed over her cheek, and he retracted, bumping into the back of Fernando. 

The two boys snapped around, facing their little sister and the boy who was now terrified at being surrounded by them.

“Who is he?”

“Kenneth!” Frederick growled, calling for the little boy, “Kenneth, bring the girl with you, boy!”

Kenneth held out his hand to her, his soft glance making the little girl feel safe enough to take it, and the two teenagers grabbed their little sister’s other arm in an instant. 

She gave them a scared, wide-eyed look as she glanced between them.

“Don’t go with him, Mariella.”

“I like his smile!”

The little boy smiled even more, feeling a little bit more courageous, “I can show you a pretty castle too.”

She returned a look to her brothers, “Nando...Marney...I want to see the castle...”

And the two boys let go of their little sister’s hand, unable to tell her no, but also unable to break her trust in a human that she didn’t know, because she was all too afraid of the world at such a young age already.

“I can show you it...if you come with me...”

“Nando...Marney?”

Marnessier looked between his father and the other family, “I’m not letting her go alone.”

“Marnessier, they aren’t tak-“

“I’ll go as her security,” he said firmly, “I-I’ll renounce my place in line, and join the service of the family, if it means that I get to stay with Mariella until she’s an adult...until she’s of age that she’s able to get married.”

“And after that?” Frederick asked curiously.

“So long as my sister stays, so do I...”

Frederick looked at his oldest of friends, “Fernando?”

Fernando’s jaw tightened.

He did love his son, but there was far too much rage between the two of them.  And he knew that if he did not allow his son to go with Mariella, the tension in their own relationship might just break.

“Is this what you want, Marnessier?”

“Someone needs to protect her,” he said firmly, “Fernando can watch Spain...I can watch out for my sister.”

Fernando nodded at Frederick and the king smiled, “two mauvais dentes...how marvelous.”

Chapter 2

[itachi86]

i don't like that kenneth goes to juliette but the way he handles adalind in this episode is so funny

[indoraptorgirlwind]

....

I'll just call them Viktor and Ken....

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visions of lake huron // goderich, canada // 2005-2015 // ©

[themysticalwillow]

[whitedogblog]

Goderich, Ontario

[snellblogs]

Canada Road 5

AUGUST 23

Between Goderich and Kincardine,

Lake Huron

Great Lakes

Ontario

Can’t see the Sunset for cloud

Today we had rain and thunder storms.  The lake was completely calm early this morning in fact it was the flattest I have ever seen it and I thought ah, I will be able to swim today.  But first I sat down to meditate by the lake, using a red plastic chair, sheltered under an awning and fellow swimmer swam out so far he was just a dot on the lake.  Then the slight drizzle got more intense and as he left the lakeside the rain began in earnest.  First heavy and then in a trice torrential and although I tried to stay and meditate, the rain was coming in so I moved farther back.  Then as it poured a drip began from the awning right onto my head and my hood was rapidly wet, so I gave up and took the path back up to the cottage and went and meditated peacefully in my room.

Later that morning watching the thunder that rolled in and counting the seconds between lightning and thunder I saw white lightning strike the lake at the horizon straight from the thunder clouds.  I wouldn’t have missed it.  Lightning on Lake Huron!

The fields were drenched.

Next day:

It’s raining on Lake Huron.  The washing and swimsuits and towels on the line strung between two huge pine trees is not getting any drier. 

Its evening now and yesterday I achieved a best:  I won my first ever game of five pin bowling.  I beat everyone, much to everyone’s amazement.  It was simply a great feeling to be the best at something, no matter how insignificant or how transitory.  It was a laugh.  I just remembered my Dad bowling beautifully almost making it graceful and tried to follow suit and it seemed to work somehow.

Then I went to see a piece of wonderful Canadian theatre at a very small place called Blyth which when it is not performing outdoors performs in the local town hall which looks like a museum or church or a cross between, a beautiful piece of architecture.

Today’s swim was good, the water is fresh but manageable, but I was able to swim up and down without being knocked over by the waves or swept off my feet by the current.  It takes some time to get used to swimming on one of the Great Lakes.

Today I went for a walk up the dirt road that leads in here through farmer’s fields that stretch for as far as you can see on either side.  They grow vegetable crops but without hedges or fences just a bunch of trees might signify the end of one field.  Either side of the track are a wide selection of beautiful summer flowers.  We collected one of each kind only.  There was the golden rod and the meadowsweet, black- eyed-susan, toadflax, vetch, purple thistle, pink clover, scabious and a blue flower and a shaking grass.  They were in the most beautiful clumps almost painted on and in such delicacy. So much colour.

The sun is hiding tonight but the lake is flat with no waves.

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Things You Probably Never Knew About The Great Lakes.....

1. Lake Superior is actually not a lake at all, but an inland sea .

2. All of the four other Great Lakes, plus three more the size of Lake Erie, would  fit inside of Lake Superior.

3. Isle Royale is a massive island surrounded by Lake Superior. Within this island are several smaller lakes. Yes, that’s a lake on a lake.

4. Despite its massive size, Lake Superior is an  extremely young   formation by Earth’s standards (only 10,000 years old).

5. There is enough water in Lake Superior to  submerge all of North and South America in 1 foot of water.

6. Lake Superior contains 3 quadrillion gallons of water (3,000,000,000,000,000). All five of the Great Lakes combined contain 6 quadrillion gallons.

7. Contained within Lake Superior is a whopping 10% of the world’s fresh surface water.

8. It’s estimated there are about 100 million lake trout   in Lake Superior. That’s nearly one-fifth of the human population of North America!

9. There are small outlets through which water leaves Lake Superior. It takes two centuries for all the water in the lake to replace itself.

10. Lake Erie is the fourth-largest Great Lake in surface area, and the smallest in depth. It’s the 11th largest lake on the planet.

11. There is alleged to be a 30- to 40-foot-long “monster” in Lake Erie named Bessie. The earliest recorded sighting goes back as early as 1793.

12. Water in Lake Erie replaces itself   in only 2.6 years, which is notable considering the water in Lake Superior takes two centuries.

13. The original publication of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax contained the line, “I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie.”Fourteen years later, the Ohio Sea Grant Program wrote to Seuss to make the case that conditions had improved. He removed the line.

14. Not only is lake Erie the smallest Great Lake when it comes to volume, but it’s surrounded by the most industry.Seventeen metropolitan areas, each with populations of more than 50,000, border the Lake Erie basin.

15. During the War of 1812, the U.S. beat the British in a naval battle calledthe Battle of Lake Erie, forcing them to abandon Detroit.

16. The shoreline of all the Great Lakes combined equals nearly 44% of the  circumference  of the planet.

17. If not for the the Straits of Mackinac, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron might be considered one lake.Hydrologically speaking, they have the same mean water level and are considered one lake.

18. The Keystone State  was one of the largest and most luxurious wooden steamships running during the Civil War.In 1861, it disappeared. In 2013, it was found 30 miles northeast of Harrisville under 175 feet of water.

19. Goderich Mine is the largest salt mine in the world. Part of it runs underneath Lake Huron, more than 500 meters underground.

20. Below Lake Huron, there are  9,000-year-old animal-herding structures   used by prehistoric people from when the water levels were significantly lower.

21. There are  massive sinkholes in Lake Huron that have high amounts of sulfur and low amounts of oxygen, almost replicating the conditions of Earth’s ancient oceans 3 million years ago. Unique ecosystems are contained within them.

22. Lake Huron is the second largest among the Great Lakes, and the  fifth largest in the world.

23.  In size, Lake Michigan ranks third among the Great Lakes, and sixth among all freshwater lakes in the world.

24. Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake that is entirely within the borders of the United States.

25. The largest fresh water sand dunes in the world line the shores of Lake Michigan.

26. Because water enters and exits Lake Michigan through the same path, it takes 77 years longer for the water to replace itself   than in Huron, despite their similarity in size and depth. (Lake Michigan: 99 years, Lake Huron: 22 years)

27. When the temperature of Lake Michigan is below freezing, this happens.

28. Within Lake Michigan there is a “triangle” with a similar reputation to the Bermuda Triangle, where a large amount of “strange disappearances” have occurred. There have also been alleged UFO sightings.

29. Singapore, Mich., is a ghost town on the shores of Lake Michigan that was buried under sand in 1871. Because of severe weather conditions and a lack of resources due to the need to rebuild after the great Chicago fire, the town was lost completely.

30. In the mid-19th century, Lake Michigan had a pirate problem. Their booty: timber. In fact, the demise of Singapore is due in large part to the rapidly deforested area surrounding the town.

31. Jim Dreyer  swam across Lake Michigan in 1998 (65 miles), and then in 2003, he swam the length of Lake Michigan (422 miles).

32. Lake Michigan was the location of the first recorded “Big Great Lakes disaster,” in which a steamer carrying 600 people collided with a schooner delivering timber to Chicago. Four hundred and fifty people died.

33. Lake Ontario is the smallest of the Great Lakes in surface area, and second smallest in depth. It’s the  14th largest lake   on the planet.

34. The province Ontario was  named after   the lake, and not vice versa.

35. In 1804, a Canadian warship, His Majesty’s Ship Speedy, sank in Lake Ontario. In 1990, wreck hunter Ed Burtt managed to find it.  Only, he isn’t allowed to recover any artifacts until a government-approved site to exhibit them is found. He’s still waiting.

36. Babe Ruth hit his  first major league home run   at Hanlan’s Point Stadium in Toronto. It landed in Lake Ontario and is believed to still be there.

37. A lake on Saturn’s moon Titan is named after Lake Ontario.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"TWO AUDITORS ARE PUT UNDER ARREST," Hamilton Spectator. August 29, 1933. Page 10. --- Huron County Officials Facing Charges ---- Guilty Knowledge of Shortages is Alleged ---- Goderich, Ont., Aug. 29 - (CP) Speculation was rife in Huron county to-day as to who next would be involved in the alleged shortage of county funds. Yesterday the number arrested was raised to three when William Booth, Wingham, and Robert Higgins, Hensall, auditors of the county for 1932, were taken into custody on charges of bribery and conspiracy.

In jail awaiting trial on charges of theft of funds is Gordon Young,former treasurer. Booth and Higgins, as officers of the corporation,are charged with having accepted money from Young to refrain from reporting shortages in his accounts while he was treasurer. Young, it is alleged, made a statement which resulted in the two arrests yesterday.

Booth is a real estate operator and insurance agent, while Higgins is a former reeve of Hensall and former member of the county council. They appeared before Magistrate Reid yesterday and were remanded for one week on bail of $3,000 each.

Both men were notified on Saturday that unless they immediately gave themselves up, warrants would be issued for their apprehension. Arraigned yesterday before Magistrate Reid, they were remanded for a week for trial and freed on bail of $3,000 each.

Provincial police who preferred the charges claim that Booth and Higgins accepted money from Gordon Young, county treasurer, who is now in jail awaiting trial, to refrain from reporting shortages in Young's accounts.

Last June, in reporting to the council as a whole, the two auditors are alleged to have declared the treasurer's books to be "all present and correct."

Allege Shortage Known The police charge that at that time the auditors knew of Young's alleged shortages, and that Young had paid them $50 apiece to "soft pedal" on their knowledge.

Information said to be in the possession of the crown at present is that the special auditors, going over the treasury books, have so far discovered shortages approximating between $6,000 and $7,000. There are said to have occurred in 1932. In view of the fact that the auditors Intend going back several years in their check-up, no formal statement of their findings has as yet been presented to the crown attorney.

Booth runs an insurance business in Wingham, while Higgins is retired. Both men have had their auditors' positions for some time, and are well known throughout the county.

Young, the arrested county treasurer, had occupied his position for six years.

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