OUR SUNSHINE DIDN'T LAST LONG BUT IT WAS SURE NICE WHILE IT WAS HERE

Didn't have to shovel any snow first thing this morning so I take that as a plus.  Temps sat on the freezing mark and that too was a plus from recent cold record braking temperatures.  Snow was again crunchy under foot and a few hours later snow had the consistency of a good snow ball fight or the making of a snowman or six.

COUNTRY ROADS WERE IN GOOD SHAPE TODAY

THIS IS BASICALLY WHAT OUR COUNTRYSIDE LOOKS LIKE NOW

Pheebs and I headed off to Clinton and stopped into Huron Tire.  Not anything to do with tires but while there Monday to have snow tires put on one of the counter fellas asked if we were heading south this year.  "Likely not" I answered telling him we sold our Motorhome but were looking for a smaller one.  Bob said a friend of his 'might' have a small Class C for sale.  Our phone still isn't working so I stopped in to see if Bob had been trying to get a hold of us.  He hadn't but said he'd be talking to his friend with the Class C Saturday so we'll see what happens.  I'm not getting my expectations up and I'm certainly not unrealistically optimistic about anything.

AT THE BANNOCKBURN CONSERVATION AREA

HEAVY WET SNOW ON THE BOARDWALK

HEAVY WET SNOW IS VERY EASY TO GET STUCK IN BUT WE WERE OKAY WITH SNOW TIRES AND FOUR WHEEL DRIVE

Slowly took the scenic country road route back to Bayfield with a stop at the Bannockburn Conservation area.  With Pheebs window down I managed a few photos along the way and amazingly enough I began seeing patches of blue sky to the west.  Wasn't long before we had sunshine pouring through the windshield.

HEADING SOUTH ON BANNOCKBURN LINE

Rolling into the southeast end of Bayfield it looked and felt like a Spring day so I wheeled right into the carwash and hosed nearly a weeks worth of ice, snow, and corrosive road salt off the Jeep.  Looked like a new vehicle.  
Right next door to the carwash is the Tim Horton coffee shop constructions site so I was quick to have myself a looky see if there had been any progress from a few days ago.  Yes there had and I was happy to see workers on the roof.  If they keep this up they just might make that April 2025 opening day after all:))

ENCOURAGING TO SEE SOME PROGRESS ON TIM HORTONS COFFEE SHOP

Home around ten I decided to stay outside and move some snow around.  Didn't have to but it was nice to be outside for awhile.  As temps moved a couple digits over the freezing mark and with periodic bouts of sunshine it was sure nice to hear the sounds of dripping.  Temps will drop significantly overnight freezing everything but by Sunday and maybe all next week temps are predicted to be near 40F.  Would be nice to lose most if not all of this snow we have sitting around.

CAN'T HELP IT.....I JUST LIKE THE LOOKS OF THIS HOUSE

NICE TO SEE BLUE SKIES OVER BAYFIELD AGAIN

STILL SOME LEAVES ON A FEW TREES

Our landline phone still isn't working and it was a frustrating comedy of errors today as Kelly tried to deal with Bell telephone via some far East call center.  If we were smart, which we sometimes aren't we would drop Bell Telephone altogether and simply go with just our cell phones like so many others have done.  Maybe this fiasco will finally push us over the edge.  

We had us a strange happening here Thursday morning.  When Kelly woke up she could hear something machine like running and wondered if there was a problem with our furnace.  Sound was coming from our spare bedroom and when she walked in the ceiling fan was going full tilt.  We have not used that ceiling fan since having our central A/C installed maybe 5 or 6 years ago.  Kelly thought I had maybe turned on the fan.  I had not.  One has to physically pull a chain to turn the fan on.  So if I didn't turn it on and Kelly didn't turn it on then who turned it on and how.  No memory lapse on my part.  The last time I turned that fan on was half a dozen years ago.  How can things like that happen.  Drives my logically thinking mind into a tizzy trying to come up with a rationale explanation.  And there has to be a logical explanation, right??

And 12 years ago yesterday we were hiking around in Bryce Canyon, Utah:))  Bryce Canyon.  While re-figuring out how to put photo albums together recently I came across a bunch of photo albums I thought I had lost.  I vaguely remember putting some of them together over the years and many are totally new to me which I guess is one of the up-sides of a forgetful memory like mine.  Seeings how we may not make it to the Southwest this year I am going to periodically have a little feature at the end of my posts and call it, 'Memory Lane'  I'll throw a photo album in there with a brief description of what it is about and where it is.  Could be right here at home or it could be somewhere way off in southern California somewhere.  These will be albums of our earlier home and travel years with photos I have not seen for a very long time.  You may find some of the photos interesting...……………….

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A cowboy, who just moved to Wyoming from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of beer. He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn. When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.  The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, "You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time." The cowboy replies, "Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in Arizona , the other is in Colorado . When we all left our home in Texas , we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank together. So I'm drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself."  The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.  The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way. He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.  One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs. All the regulars take notice and fall silent. It is obvious what has happened.  When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on the loss of one of your brothers."  The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.  "Oh, no, everybody's just fine," he explains, "It's just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking."  "Hasn't affected my brothers though."

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“I have trouble liking brass bands. They are all made up of a bunch of blowhards.”
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