Firstly, a day late Happy Birthday to the Hippy Chick from Woodstock. 

We hope that you had a great day. We celebrated your day with a dinner at the estate. Pics later on. 

Next, Happy Birthday to Grasshopper's niece Sheila. 

And lastly, Happy birthday to Dr. Anonymous. 

  
 So, I have a million/billion pictures to sift thru. I'll try to give you the reader's digest version. 

If you remember a little while ago we worked on Razor's snow blower. We had to Frankenstein the electricals to make it work. Here it is clearing the yard at the Estate.

 Back on the 9th it was -27 in the morning. This grouse was half buried in the snow waiting for breakfast.

Kat and Cat plowing the Notman road.

We haven't had any real big dumps of snow, but the little ones are adding up.

I used this bread recipe that they say that any 60 year old could do.  recipe It rises for about 20 hours in total.

Tada!

Lots of holes.

 Personal shopper heading off to town.


Snow in the city. 

A little more every day.

I went to the Jocko hunt camp with Razor and Pat.

Ice fishing on the 17th.

Bonehead and Big Luke came for family weekend.

That was a tall story Kat.

There were only 4 fish caught. No keepers. This was the only one to make it on film.

A beautiful sun set that changed every 30 seconds. I must have taken a hundred pictures.

 

 There was a back wash to the east.

Yesterday some of the Kelly klan came by to borrow some dogs. Nice skiboose. 

Then we went to the Estate for dinner. Even long lost Itchy Richie came with Addison and Graydon. Bryan, Rachel, James, Mary-Lou, John, Razor, TT, Grasshopper, Jaidah, Bonehead, Luke, attended.

Mr. Smith ran the deep fryer.

Piggy backed duck was on the menu.

Rachel and James brought their new 4 legged baby, Battle Cat. Maybe they are practising for a two legged one?

Light at the center.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's been a few days with out an update. I've been getting nagged about it. So, here's a little one for you. 

We have had the odd evening grosbeak show up at the feeder.

My personal shopper heading to town on the 26th.

We had some sun way back on the 29th.

2 days in a row!

Sun up on the first.

On ground hog day I went on a 90 mile ride with Razor, Pat, Greg and Bob. Here we are on Spot lake.

Kenny, on the ONR tracks.

We stopped at Lumpy's for lunch.

The menu is on the walls.

 

It's right beside the trading post.

On the way home we met up with the Davis crew on their annual "lost weekend".

The 3rd. I don't remember so much sun, hmmm. Any way, early morning sun making shadows thru Wolf's bay and the narrows.

Lately Kat and Cat have been snow shoeing most days.

Cat takes a selfie.

You can sort of see the wind howling down the center of the lake past Bill's point.

Yesterday the sun popped out for a bit in between flurries.

More wind.

The big game was on.

Home made mini pizzas were on the Super Bowl menu.

I think that it was all down hill from here for the Hawks.

Pizza and Oriental snacks.

That's a pretty determined stare right there.

During the game I made some Ciabatta buns. They turned out pretty good with a nice crust on the outside and lots of holes on the inside. But they were lots of work and took hours to make.

After yesterday's flurries. We are expecting some real snow tomorrow.

A sign if you get lost. This was a Xmas present from the Slates.

That's all folks.

We woke up this morning with a wolf on the tree line. I then noticed another one, then another and then one more. We watched them, and them us, for a good half hour. I was out side first in my jockeys and slippers. I was using a tripod at first but with all of the panning and zooming trying to watch all four, it was just a pain. You will notice that the wolves keep looking back towards Wolf Bay. About a half hour after these videos were taken and as I was uploading, a fifth wolf came out of Fennel's Bay, crossed in front of Bedrock and right up Bill's point. You might also answer the question does a wolf sh#t on the ice? 2 times. In the third video the fourth wolf howls and even lays down and howls.

Wolves #1 

Wolves #2

Wolves #3 

 Wolves #4