HOLDING ON TIGHTLY WAITING TO BE RESCUED BY THE COMING OF SPRING

With another snowstorm in its early beginnings, I figured I had better get out while the weather was still doable.  Headed east out of the Park and drove to the end of Bayfield River Road, turned around, and came back.  Aside from some ground drifting and spotty snow-covered roads, driving wasn't a problem.  Managed to snap a few pics along the way.  Just think, a month ago today it was Christmas, and a month from now we'll only be three days away from March first.  Please say it is so..................

 A LITTLE SNOWY BLOWY IN THE COUNTRYSIDE THIS MORNING

 A BIT OF GROUND DRIFTING ACROSS BAYFIELD RIVER ROAD

 IT WILL BE ANOTHER COUPLE OF MONTHS BEFORE MY WALKING ROAD WILL BE OPEN AGAIN

This is always a difficult time of the year.  We, like so many others, are caught up in the late January blahs.  These days are not only mentally challenging but also physically challenging as well.  This is a time when one holds on tightly while waiting to be rescued by the coming of Spring.  No getting around it, it's just the way it is this time of year for many of us.

 A VERY LONG TELEPHOTO SHOT OF WHAT I THINK IS A RED TAIL HAWK

At the time of posting this tonight, the perceived nasty winter storm they were calling for either missed us, went around us, or went over top of us, and headed inland.  Or, maybe the storm is waiting just offshore and will roll in overnight and sock it to us.

A LOCAL LOGGING OPERATION ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF BAYFIELD RIVER ROAD

Al's Music Box:: Perhaps Love by John Denver.

 THERE IS A SMALL FROZEN LAKE OUT THERE UNDER ALL THAT SNOW

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Religious Bumper Stickers::

- If God is your copilot, better change seats!
- I believe in the big bang theory, God spoke, and bang it happened.
- If God created man in His image. Then what's wrong with you?
- If you're living like there is no God, you'd better be right.
- I get along with God just fine. It's his followers that I can't stand.
- I am sorry, all of our angels and saints are busy helping other sinners right now. However, your prayer is important to us, and we will answer it in the order it was received. Please stay on the line.

- Jesus is coming, look busy!
- Heaven is a lonely place. Everybody thinks they're the only ones going!
- Caution: Non-exposure to the Son will cause burning!
- Hell... Don't even go there
- Welcome to eternity... will that be smoking or non-smoking?
- As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in school.
- The problem with religious texts is that the answers aren't in the back, either.
- Militant Agnostic - I don't know, and you don't either!
- O Lord, Save Me From Your followers.
- Wanna come for a drive? It'll scare the hell out of you!
- Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.

- Jesus Saves, Gretzky Scores!

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Mr. Bailey saw his son's shiner and demanded, "Scott, who gave you that black eye?" "No one gave it to me dad," replied the spunky lad. "I had to fight for it."

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- Someone stole my broken calculator, but I don't know why. It just doesn't add up.

- Look, you can either agree with me or you can be wrong.

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A homeless man, down on his luck, went into a local church that was known for its rather “uppity” social reputation. Spotting the man’s dirty clothes, the ushers stopped him outside the church door and asked if he needed help. The man told them, “I was praying and the Lord told me to come to this church.”The ushers suggested that the man go away and pray some more and he might get a different answer. The following Sunday, the man returned, and the ushers again stopped him at the door. “Well, did you get a different answer?” they asked him.“Yes, I did,” said the man. “I told the Lord that you don’t want me here, but the Lord said, ‘Keep trying, son. I’ve been trying to get into that church for years, and I haven’t made it yet either.”

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OKAY, SO THAT'S MY LITTLE MID-WINTER CABIN FEVER RANT

 SEEN IN OUR PARK THIS MORNING

Not as nasty a morning with 10F being better than Friday mornings' 6F, and its -23F wind chill factor.  Not much of a wind this morning, and that made it possible to take myself for a wee walk at Bayfield's beach.  Not a pleasure walk, but an investigative walk.  The two construction machines were not working, so I was able to take a walk through the area where those machines had been digging and moving large boulders along the shoreline.  I think I may have figured out what might be going on there.  A large trench has been dug along the shoreline for maybe a couple of hundred yards long and a couple of hundred feet wide.  Maybe eight or ten feet deep.  I now do not think the line of boulders piled up in a long line about twelve feet high, further from shore, is a breakwater.  I think they have been temporarily placed there and will in turn, be moved over to the trench along the shoreline.  They will form a base and a breakwater wall where the land meets the beach.  That makes a whole lot more sense than trying to imagine a twelve-foot-high breakwater several hundred yards offshore.  Whether the trench breakwater will extend all the way across Bayfield's beach as far as the south pier, I don't know.  But, one thing is certain....whatever they do, I'll be a lettin y'all know:)) 

 THE MACHINES WEREN'T WORKING AT THE BAYFIELD BEACH THIS MORNING

 DECIDED TO TAKE A WALK OVER THERE AROUND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

 A LARGE AREA HAS BEEN DUG OUT ALONG THE SHORELINE

 WALKING BETWEEN THE ROWS OF LARGE BOULDERS

 IT MAY BE THESE COTTAGE OWNERS WHO ARE FUNDING THIS PROJECT

 I THINK THOSE LARGE BOULDERS ON THE RIGHT WILL BE MOVED TO THE DUG OUT AREA ON THE LEFT

 IT'S A BARREN LOOKING WINTERSCAPE ALONG THE SHORELINE

Luckily, no snow overnight, and although cold, it is not as cold as what the weather forecasters said it was going to be for our area.  I'm very skeptical of them saying Ontario will be colder than Russia's Siberia, or the coldest place on the Planet, and I'm thinking I shouldn't have even posted that in my blog a few days ago.  Unfortunately, we now live in a world of wildly exaggerated speculations, bizarre and unrealistic theories, delusional behavior, and a never ending and growing deluge of falsehoods and out-and-out lies.  Those things have always been present to some degree, but not to the epidemic extent they are now.  It is all but impossible anymore to separate fact from fiction, right from wrong, decency from disgust, and blatant BS from the truth.  I think mankind is in desperate need of a definite intervention of some kind.  The human race, in my opinion, is in dire need of a massive reset......and right now!!!!  Okay, so that's my little mid-winter cabin fever rant, and not to worry.....I'll not make a habit of it.   

Al's Music Box:: My Woman My Woman My Wife by Marty Robbins.

 ALSO IN OUR PARK THIS MORNING

GROANER'S CORNER:(( Shakey went to a psychiatrist. "Doc," he said, "I've got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there's somebody under it. I get under the bed, I think there's somebody on top of it. Top, under, top, under. "you gotta help me, I'm going crazy!" "Just put yourself in my hands for two years," said the shrink. "Come to me three times a week, and I'll cure your fears." "How much do you charge?" "A hundred dollars per visit." "I'll sleep on it," said Shakey. Six months later the doctor met Shakey on the street. "Why didn't you ever come to see me again?" asked the psychiatrist. "For a hundred buck's a visit? A bartender cured me for ten dollars." "Is that so! How?" "He told me to cut the legs off the bed!"

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A woman decided to have her portrait painted. She told the artist, "Paint me with diamond rings, a diamond necklace, emerald bracelets, a ruby broach, and gold Rolex." "But you are not wearing any of those things," he replied. "I know," she said. "It's in case I should die before my husband. I'm sure he will remarry right away, and I want his new wife to go crazy looking for the jewelry."

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A priest was sent to a very small church in the backwoods of Alaska. After a couple of years the Bishop decided to pay the priest a visit to see how he was doing. The priest said that it was a really lonely job and that he didn't think that he could have made it without his Rosary and two martinis each day. With that the priest said to the Bishop, "Would you like to have a martini with me?" The Bishop said, "Yes, that would be nice." The priest turned around and hollered toward the kitchen, "Rosary, would you fix us two martinis please?"

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