Happy Birthday Charlie Brown

 

On Monday we got the Skidoobeedoo ready to be put away,

 

and started pulling boughs off of the water line.

I tried to chop a hole in the ice this morning. It's still at least 12 inches thick.

Say good morning to Grasshopper. No snow on the hill. I stood on the ice all day yesterday and for an hour or so this morning doing dock maintenance.

This morning.

4 o'clock.

Yup, not too much snow on the sunny side of life.

Lots of snow on the cold, dark side of the lake.

Ice starting to pull away from shore.

OK,OK, stop yer whining, here's some funnies fer ya.

Have you noticed that CTV promises you "ALL NEW THURSDAYS, or "ALL NEW FRIDAYS" etc? Hmm mm, seems like same old to me. 

 Just 'cause.

Happy anniversary Grasshopper!

 


Pics from yesterday.


We went for a walk about after the worst of the rain had stopped.

Blimey! Bloody 'ell mate, she sure is foggy. The pea soup keeps rolling in. Makes you homesick for the old country.
 

Still lots of snow on the Don Fraser Bypass.

Not so much on the on ramp.

Water every where.

The ice road is still passable.

Grackles and Red wings.

Night time visitors to the feeders.

A familiar site this morning. Don't poke out the other eye Jose, it won't last past Monday????

Not too much?

Today has been a record day for birds. Here's the list, Grouse, Fox sparrows, Yellow belly sap sucker, Tree sparrows, Robins, Red wing black birds, Grackles, Starlings, White throated sparrows, Dark eyed juncos, Song sparrows, Redpolls, Chickadees and a Common flicker. 

This little fellow was different from all his buddies. A Hoary?

Today I checked out the driveway for fallen trees, just one old, dead fir down. 

The Notman road.

Sand lake, looking where the herons nested.

Another Tomiko pot hole, on the Brule lake road. It's hard to tell, but it's about a 2 foot drop. Not quite wide enough for the skies.

Output side of the first culvert on our drive.

Another pot hole just past the gravel pit.

Another flooded spot.

Out put side of second culvert.

Water is running over the Notman road at the river. I have a video that I can email to you if you want it.

No funny for you today

2.3 inches of rain, so far.

and windy, too.

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Last Monday I went to Frasertown, 'cause I could.

The RR tracks.

Looking thru the narrows, from the round end.

Shots from Tuesday.

Sun, wind, and rain make the trees list.

Slippery, when wet.

You'll have to trust me on this, but it's the first robin of the year.

Shrinking snow banks.

Our beach.

 

Snowshoe tracks imbedded in the ice. The ice never forgets.

Wednesday's pics.

Tomiko pot hole on the road to Rich's. 

Grasshopper went to town, probably for the last time before break up. I played around on the lake, 'cause I could.  I think that this is the latest that I've been on the ice with out horse shoes, ice picks, and clenched sphincter muscles.

That chair looks lonely, shouldn't be too long before Bill's butt is in it.

All's quiet in Fennell's bay, for now.

Round end thru the narrows.

Looking at the pointy end.

First butterfly.

You couldn't see the fire pit 2 days ago.

What's missing from this picture??

  

Today's depressing shot. We are under a heavy rain warning, 1/2 an inch, so far.

Today's funny.