{"id":9078,"date":"2019-08-10T22:06:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T02:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=9078"},"modified":"2019-08-10T22:11:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T02:11:46","slug":"august-10-detached-lock-smiths-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=9078","title":{"rendered":"August 10 – Detached Lock Smiths Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overnight at Detached Lock in Smiths Falls<\/p>\n

44\u00b053\u203241\u2033 N 76\u00b01\u203215\u2033 W<\/p>\n

I left Poonamalie at about 9:30 this morning & arrived at the Detached Lock in Smiths Falls around 10:30.<\/p>\n

This particular lock is in a very convenient location with lots of stores & restaurants within a 5-10 minute walk & the Roosteraunt is truly only a 1 minute walk from the boat.<\/p>\n

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Today I made a trip to Canadian Tire & 2 trips to the grocery store. Tomorrow I\u2019ll visit The Beer Store & the LCBO! I\u2019ve got to take advantage of the opportunity to get more provisions \u2018cause there are no other stops like this along the way.<\/p>\n

The weather was very unsettled again today. It must have rained about 10 times through the morning & afternoon. It just rains for 10-15 minutes & then clears up for half an hour & then the rain starts again. Very frustrating!<\/p>\n

When its wet outside I cannot do much to the boat even if it stops raining. Most little projects I want to do require the boat to be dry & there has to be no chance of rain for at least the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

So, when the weather is uncooperative I resort to other activities. I have no one to play backgammon with so the Solitaire game on my phone gets a good workout (I won\u2019t tell you how many games I have played this past week but its a lot!).<\/p>\n

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I am also listening to a lot of podcasts & audiobooks. I\u2019m currently listening to \u201cA Good Year\u201d by Peter Mayle. (borrowed online from London Public Library). I saw the movie years ago starring Russell Crowe & Albert Finney.<\/p>\n

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The movie was very good & I\u2019m really enjoying the audio book too. The only problem with the audio book is that if I lie down while listening to it I inevitably fall asleep & then when I wake up I have to try & figure out what I missed.<\/p>\n

One small job I got done today in between the raindrops was to install new LED blue lights for the side decks. The original incandescent (automotive) bulbs & fixtures were rusted beyond repair so I took the opportunity to make a bit of an update.<\/p>\n

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Pretty cool, eh! And they make a big difference for walking along the side decks at night.<\/p>\n

This lock location is also easy to identify because it is just in front of an out-of-service Bascule railway bridge that is permanently in the “up” position. It makes a nice silhouette against the last bit of light in the sky after sunset.<\/p>\n

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Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overnight at Detached Lock in Smiths Falls 44\u00b053\u203241\u2033 N 76\u00b01\u203215\u2033 W I left Poonamalie at about 9:30 this morning & arrived at the Detached Lock in Smiths Falls around 10:30. This particular lock is in a very convenient location with lots of stores & restaurants within a 5-10 minute walk & the Roosteraunt is truly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-rideau-cruise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-2mq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9086,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078\/revisions\/9086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}