Good Morning, Blogosphere! Come on in out of the cold. We have Bourbon and Maple Bacon coffee among the choices today. You can’t really taste the bacon. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing!
How are you? Forgive me bloggers, for I have sinned. It’s been two weeks since my last blog post and I am behind with our coffee and my monthly recap of spookiness deliveries. I am looking forward to visiting with you and catching up! Thanks so much for stopping by.
It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster here. In a strange turn of events, on Monday I received a second interview invitation for the position I was not selected for. Only to find out at the end of the interview it was for a different line of business! Not what I was shooting for but this will be a huge learning opportunity. I’m SO happy to tell you I was selected and accepted the offer on Wednesday! I start March 23rd. Currently I develop documentation for a health insurance company. This new role will be developing the training curriculum that utilizes the documents I develop. I’m really excited to get started and have received an unbelievably warm welcome from my new team.
Another hill to the rollercoaster is that my long lost cousin in West Virginia found one of our long lost cousins in Slovakia!!! We have been messaging up a storm over the last week and my Dad is over the moon happy to know that he still has living relatives in his homeland. It’s been an exciting week, to say the least!
To top things off, we attended the Great Lakes Shipwreck Festival yesterday! It was a day long series of talks at a local community college.
The target audience was scuba divers who explore shipwrecks in our Great Lakes. I’ve always wanted to scuba dive, but never have. We still enjoyed the loads of historical information that was shared and I jotted down pages of notes to research later.
There is a shipwreck preserve organization that is working to plant buoys near the shipwrecks to encourage dive boats to anchor to the buoys, not drop anchor near the wreck. (If their coordinates are off, they could drop their anchor onto the wreck, causing further damage. Freighters especially!) Here is a photo of one of the buoys they will plant near the wreck of the Havana. They are working to buoy as many as they can, seeking volunteers to put them in every spring and take them out every fall.
We had seven sessions to attend, topics ranging from dive locations in the Great Lakes, to the CPR 694 locomotive tragedy, the search for a missing plane over Lake Michigan, N1561Z and the Great Storm of 1913. I was in heaven with all of this new found knowledge.
The highlight of my day, however, was after I stepped out to take a photo of the above buoy, I stopped my a table where this can of taconite pellets caught my eye.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was loaded with taconite (iron one) when it was lost in 1975. The gentleman at the table shared with me an event coming up this November to remember the lost mariners on our lakes, among other events taking place at our Dossin Great Lakes Museum on the Detroit River. I asked if I could take a photo of the can and he gifted me with a handful of pellets!
It was a great day! Today I’ll catch up on some work and blog posts and get ready for the week. This is our second day in a row of sunshine and blue skies so it will be tough to stay indoors, but we’ve got mid-40s in store for this week!
Need a warm up? Come visit our coffee share host, Eclectic Alli, and tell us what’s been going on!
It’s great to have you back busy Lady ☺️ Congratulations on your new job, how exciting!
Thank you so much, Maria! I’ve missed everyone.. Really excited, thank you for the good wishes!
What a great day you must have had ~ so interesting!
Thanks for reading, Deb! It’s been pretty exciting.
Oh, scuba diving is a dream of mine—especially in shipwrecks. So cool!
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Mine too! I don’t know if I’ll every try it.. I think I’d freak out in too deep of water, as much as it fascinates me. 🙂