Happy Birthday Joseph!


Yikes! Thirty two years old. It makes me feel older than my thirty nine year old body can stand.



And a belated Happy birthday to Linda. We won't publish your age because I haven't figured out how to type exponents.



I think that it has been snowing since shortly after 7:30 Monday evening. That figures, right Razor?








Mike, the sled just caught fire while running on the bare ice. The guy with the tracks on the quad is really impressed with them. He says that he drove through snow that was up to his lights.

First of all I hope everybody had a happy Family Day holiday yesterday. Oh, wait now, you folks down home don't get that one. Don't worry, you'll get it some day, probably in about twenty years.


What great weather we've had the past 4 or 5 days. Even people who don't like winter enjoyed the sun and near zero day time temperatures.

Now on to Men's weekend. Great weather, except for not enough snow on the lakes.


It's only fun and games till some one loses a sled. Luckily no one was hurt, but they don't make enough duct tape to fix up this Yamaha.





Saturday every body went for rides. Except for the owner of the Yamaha. Here, we are on the Little Jocko River.




Proof that the only difference between men and boys, is the price of their toys.




It was actually a pretty good turn out for the weekend. But, I heard that North Bay was getting low on roses and chocolates. My partner let me down again. Poor OLD Minky has never won this tournament and I don't know how many more chances he has left. The winners were Dick and Harry, or was it Dave and Harry? I'm pretty sure one of them was a Harry.



Rick, it was nice to hear from you. I hope you had a nice "visit" at the institution on the hill. The one with a fence.

The past two days we have had lots of rain and high temps, washing away all the snow, except for our tree line.




It dropped down to -17 last night, firming everything up.



The movement of the ice has broken the bracing on the dock.



The supervisor, keeping an eye on the traffic on the ice.




This weekend is Men's weekend. You might wonder what happens during this festival. First of all, the women either leave the lake, or try to keep a very low profile. The men do a little sledding, play some cards, have a couple of "pops" and make large amounts of yellow snow. There seems to be a low turn out this year. No doubt this has something to do with Valentine's day tomorrow. This makes it clear who wears the ski-doo pants in those households.

It was about +4 with fog and rain on Saturday. The only thing missing to make me home sick was sewage and condoms floating in Halifax harbour.




Yesterday when the milk lady delivered our milk, she noticed this rabbit sitting under the tree marking the water pump. Kind of strange behavior in the middle of the afternoon. I guess that Mrs. Slate passes her eye test.



Now we can see him.



There he goes!




There goes Grasshopper off to town again. You will notice that she is not riding the Bombardier Recreational Product, or BURP for short. She is not allowed to ride it until I break it in. That might take a little while. Maybe next year.




They are forecasting temps of +7 and +9 for the next couple of days and rain. It might make for slushy conditions for Men's weekend.

Yesterday was an odd day weather wise. Sun blasting through holes in the clouds, and then five minutes later, almost pitch black dark. And lots of wind. The ski-doo tracks were buried one minute and two feet deep the next.








Today is an awesome solar day. Temp is about -6.




Grasshopper and TT have gone to the Lunar Excursion Module testing grounds to visit TTSK and do some shopping. Since Inco built their super stack, and all their smog goes to Texas, I have heard that Sudbury now has a tree.

Today I finished up a little wiring job at Vic and Jane's. The next project is to figure out what to have for supper and try to remember how to use a stove.