Frank @ Little Tomiko Lake: February 2015

Friday, February 27, 2015

Hey! The old guy figured out how to upload videos to YouTube. You can see the owl video a little bit better here.

Barred Owl

Or google Barred Owl @ Little Tomiko Lake.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Last week Grasshopper was house sitting at Bedrock while Mr. and Mrs. Slate were in Daytona watching paint dry.

This is Stirfry.

Tawno.

Whiskey.

More wind chill.

Late one afternoon this barred owl showed up for dinner.

I think that it went to the George school of huntin'.

Of course, as soon as I put the camera down, it swooped down and caught a mouse. It then flew to this tree and ate it whole.

Later it flew to this tree and stayed for hours.

Monday, February 23, 2015

So, I think everybody survived men's weekend. If there were any bodies, we'll find them in the spring. There was one little incident involving a tree, but it was the tree's fault for zigging when it should have zagged.

Actually, it wasn't Pat's fault. The new fly by wire throttles on those 4 strokes are very sensitive and you can launch yourself in to orbit if you hit a bump that you weren't expecting.

Toys in the parking lot.

Let the games begin.

Score card tabulating in the back corner. The more fingers you have, the easier the counting goes?

This is Gerry on the left and Vic on the right. They worked together for the ONR in Cochrane, many, many, many years ago.

1st place whiners(my blog, right?), Don Davis on the left and Rick on the right.

Rick won't be smiling when he sees this pic. See how fast that Don put that money in his pocket?

2nd place winners, 'cause they try harder, AKA Jon Smith and Frank Brown. That's Jon in the plaid shirt and Frank behind the camera.

3rd place, from the Sarnia camp, Berg on the left and Critter on the right. Hey, I don't make up these names, well, not ALL of them.

I hope you covered up your tomatoes last night.

But, don't worry, check out the green line.

For winos with sometimers. Where's my damn drink now?

Did you get your shots this year? They really do work.

Mr. Harper's fighter jet replacement program.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Happy Birthday Paul

Going thru the military archives, I found this pic of Paul at Boot Camp.

Later in his career.

Even later.

Where he parked his horse.

Some Sergeant Major humour, yeah, who knew?

I'll update you on the euchre tournament later, after my memory improves.

Meanwhile how did you like the heat wave today? -9? Plant yer tomatoes! I know who to blame for that polar vortex. I can't name her, but I think that I can quote her word for word. I believe M'lady said, "Tally-ho, old bean, wot wot? Hasn't the wintah weathah just been brilliant so fah? Pip, pip, cheerio!" And it's been -40 ever since, except for today, of course.