More Rain...Water Problems...and Yes, a Sunday Walk

Water problems - ugh. Saturday morning my son texted to tell me there was notice on Facebook about a boil water advisory for the whole of our city. Apparently, e-coli was found in the water samples, and we were to boil water for drinking, food preparation, washing dishes. What a pain! It made most people a little mad that it was just posted on Facebook - even businesses found out that way - and not done as an alert of some kind. It was expected to last until Tuesday. We don't drink the city water as it is horrible (at times yellow and even brown) so we had that covered, but we did boil some pots of water so we could do the washing up. We used bottled water for teeth brushing and we washed hands and then sanitised as well. Thankfully it ended today as no more contaminants were found!

It was raining again Sunday when I woke up. I did look and further up north, it was supposed to be dull but dry, so off we went. I'm not sure how often we are going to be able to do these daytrips due to the cost of petrol/gas. It's gone up again. We are going to look closer to home, but I really wanted to visit this park as we hadn't gone all summer due to the cost of parking. It was lovely to be able to get out for a walk. We stopped at Grand Haven first and took a walk along the pier to the lighthouse. There were so many people out there fishing. Apparently, it is salmon fishing season. 

I don't like taking photos of people in public but took a couple quick snaps. There were a lot more people further along. 

Now that the summer season is over, they are already starting to put up the snow fences for winter. 

From there we drove on to Muskegon and took a walk there too. Part of that lighthouse is closed off for some much-needed work on the lighthouse. We saw a lovely little mink scampering along the rocks - photos to come!

They are still working on the walkway at the state park. That was a disappointment. It was supposed to be finished in August, but they are now saying November. It's been closed for almost a year now!

I was really glad we went though. It was raining still when we got back home. It took us longer to get back as there was something happening on the motorway. There was quite a back-up, and we were near an exit, so we got off and took another way back. When I looked it up on Facebook somebody said there was a standoff on the road - a man had got out of his car and started running and they had shut everything down! Not sure how long it was closed, but I'm glad we went another way!

It's now the start of another week and I've began as I mean to go on - writing lists!

How was your weekend?