Lighthouses

Bay City, Texas

Weather: low 60 degrees, high 72 degrees, partly cloudy skies

Carolyn slept well again last night, and we hope this little trend continues. She’s been suffering from her allergies so long and was getting very little sleep and rest. I’m off work on Saturday, and it would be nice if she’s back to feeling better.

The outage continues to go well and it looks as though we’re about 12 hours ahead of schedule. If that trend continues, we’ll begin performing some of the tasks on Sunday that gave us problems in the fall outrage. Then, we’ll get an idea if the lessons the project learned help or not. I’ve got my fingers crossed.

I think it's known by now that I admire most of the old courthouses we find that have been saved from the wrecking ball. Another thing we like to see and explore are old lighthouses. When we were in Oregon several years ago, we were fortunate enough to be able to see several lighthouses located along the coast. Of course, Jerald, they're on the coast. Where else would they be, right? Anyway, I think we saw just about all of the Oregon lighthouses. The one below is the Alquinal Bay Lighthouse, located near Newport, Oregon. Obviously, it doesn't have to be a tall structure to qualify as a lighthouse.




This next picture is of the Coquille Point Lighthouse, located near Bandon, Oregon.



Here's another short lighthouse, located near Brookings, Oregon.



As far as I know, few of the old lighthouses are still being used. The ones that are used are automated, so the lighthouse keeper of days gone by is no more.

More later, be safe.

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