Tuesday we had another January thaw. Yesterday morning we woke up to +5c and had lost most of our snow. The wind picked up tp mach 10 and the temp dropped to -18c.

The tallest tree did not survive the wind.




The wind blew away what was left of the snow.

Skating anyone?



Today is a great solar day.

Not much to report today. Temp is +5c.

Grasshopper learning to break dance with Xcountry skies. For more pics, check out her site.

Full moon through the clouds.



A bunny in the moon light.

Smoke on the ice this morning.




A bunny in the day light.

So, I have a little time to put up an extra blog today, Grasshopper has gone to town with TT. BUT the dial up is crappy, so, good bye.

Mike, that whiskey jack will come right to you, IF you have food.

HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY SUPER NOVA!! Like me, you are very cute and smart too!




Lots of birds are coming to the feeder now. Here a whiskey jack takes off with some apple crisp.

A chickadee.



This nuthatch thinks that it is a chickadee, staying with the flock.

A hairy woodpecker and a whiskey jack have a face off.


This whiskey jack lets me get pretty close.

The woodpecker is still skittish.

The past couple of days have been awesome solar days. The batteries are very happy. The temp dropped to -33.9 Canadian over night.

Remember the adage about building a garage at least twice the size that you think you need?



I gave Razor a hand fixing the WHOA part of the grader. Here he is all set to plow the Sand Dam road.



As you might have seen by C's comment on the last post, I tried to turn the Yammie into a Canadian Navy submarine, and much like the Navy's subs, it didn't float. I was looking for Kita's tracks around a swamp and fell through thin ice. The back end of the sled sank about three feet. I managed to use a come-a-long and winch it onto some little bushes. Razor came along after the hard work was done. He said that he thought he could drive it out, so I told him to go for it. He drove that thing like a SeaDoo across forty to fifty feet of open water and thin ice 'till he got it on solid ice. Thanks Razor, that was definitely a "Crown Royal" moment.

I found Kita's birth certificate and found his birthday is the 15th of January. I had thought that it was in December. So, how did Kita celebrate? He went on another one of his thirty hour tears.

Here he is recuperating.



Saturday was a really nice day. Grasshopper went on a sled ride with the Tomiko Angels. Someday she might even post some pics.

I didn't go on the ride as I was still getting over my cold. Thanks to those that sent get well notes. And to the others who pointed out where to find sympathy in the dictionary, HA, HA, that's an old one.

Missing pics.

This weather sucks! This is the first day that we have been able to see the second tree on the tree line to Bed Rock.




Snowmobile trail???

Water on the ice.



Most of the snow is gone.

It was a record breaking +8 in North Bay yesterday. Last evening we saw a thunder and lightening storm pass south of the city, lighting up the fog. Well, I still have a bit of that cold that I caught in the city last week, so it's back to the couch for me.

A partial sun dog at sun set over Bed Rock.




Thursday we had to go to town. The old Husky blew a lung, so we went to get a replacement.

Sorry, not Husky...

I meant Husqi.



Now I'll be able to keep up with my new splitter/stacker.

News year's eve we dropped by Frasertown for a visit. The first two pics are for Frankie on the Moist Coast.

Don't ask...???!!!



Then on to THE Mansion in Bed Rock for some deep fried, home grown chicken.

Then it was time for sparklers;



and fire works. As hard as it might be to believe, no one was hurt during this exercise.

Yesterday we went to the Fowler's and had New year's day dinner with Ed, Jose, Bryan, Norma and Dave. Oh yeah, I ALWAYS forget June.