Man, it was hot on Thursday.


How hot was it?


It was this hot.!




But it has cooled off pretty good the past two days. So, we still have lots of ice.



Oh yeah, Happy Earth Hour Day! If you are on the grid, get off between 8:30 and 9:30 local. If you are not on the grid, you can watch the Rangers give it to the hapless Leafs. Har, har. I wonder if Mayor Vic and his neighbours will turn off their lights to night? I got my eye on you.

Free to a good home. 1, 1972(?) Onan 3000w gas generator.

The last time I started it, years ago, it purred like a kitten. It has electric start and a auto choke, so it could be remote started. The fuel lines are rotten and need to be replaced. It has a separate fuel tank. I already have a back up gennie and this one always seems to be in my way. It is cast iron and weighs a ton so bring some one with a strong back. This offer stands until the old goat comes home and can take it away.









4 or 5 days ago you would have thought that the ice was on it's way out. It was very spongy. Air from my water system( I would explain how that works to you, but it would hurt your brain) was bubbling through the ice. But, after a couple of -10 nights, the lake has tightened up and you can skate from one end to the other. They are calling for -18 tomorrow night. You should have heard the lake groaning and crunching this morning when the sun hit it.







Ice road to BedRock.


Tim, you know what they say, the camera adds twenty pounds, twenty years and turns blond hair grey. I say shoot the photographer!

Grasshopper, read above.

Mike, thanks for your understanding. I am also sorry that you have lost your dirty, salty slush. Maybe some day you can move where they have real white snow.

With winter's untimely passing, there was one more thing to mourn. Some might call it the past timely passing of my old military parka. I have worn this coat pretty much every day of every winter since 1992. There was nothing left to sew a patch on to, or so I was told by Grasshopper.



Good bye old friend.



So, here's a pic of my new parka, just in case you don't recognize me next winter.



We have had a bunch of moths here already, and yesterday I heard, and then saw one lone goose. For the past week we have had temps in the double digits, except for today we are relapsing.

It's NOT fair!

Winter just got here 3 weeks ago, and is over already. It's been double digits and sunny the past week and a half.

Before winter ended I managed to fit in a trip to Martin River with Razor and Mike.





Remember to set your clocks ahead to night and change the batteries in all your detectors.











Ice fog one morning last week.



Another sun set.



Tree line this morning.



No tree line this afternoon.



The snow is going fast.



Grasshopper pickin' up what I'm droppin'

Sorry for not posting much lately. Slow time of year, very few silly people doing silly things. That should be corrected soon as our amigo working in Chile will be home this week. He is fine, but has to travel through Argentina to Brazil to get home.


We finally have some snow. Actually we had to snow blow the waist deep drifts at the gravel pit on the Notman road to let the plow through. But "they" are calling for +6 degrees later this week.








There is nothing more beautiful than a sunny winter day.



We had another light emitting sunset last week.








I have been trying to get high speed internet. The Rogers Rocket hub only worked as good as dial up. The bell stick was a little faster when it worked, but was unreliable. Now Ontera is checking their new wireless system to see if it will work out here.

Happy XXXIII birthday

Joseph.

I know that it's been awhile, although my "awhiles" are far shorter than some other's "awhiles", even though they have lots of time to be nosy on facebook. So, to remedy my "awhiles", today you get two posts.

To start off the men's weekend euchre tournament, Minky provided supper, lazyagnew.




Luckily, no one had to get their stomach pumped this year. Mostly due to the fact that the big Norseman ate 95% of two lazyagnews. And yes, you do see a woman at men's weekend 'cause she's the camp manager.







Reprobates.










Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.


And the whiners ,oops, winners are Randy Scott and David Marleau.



Second place
goes to ME, despite the fact that I had to carry Minky "the reneger" ALL NIGHT LONG.


Third place went to Denis Kelly and Chad Mulner, who didn't stick around for the photo ops.

This is where things get a little blurrrrrry, I think this is the poker run winner. Mr. xxxxxxxxx. Sorry I'll try harder next year.



There was a tie for the draw for a helmet. Darrel and Darrel. To break the tie they picked a number closest to one written down, and the winner was.........Darrel!

Early last week I went around cleaning solar panels.

Tools of the trade.




These panels normally clean them selves.



Some before and after pics.