COLD AIR BUT A WARMING SUN

WELL I CAN SEE WHERE I'M ALREADY GOING TO HAVE TROUBLE WITH THIS LITTLE RED SQUIRREL

Not much going on today as we continue to slide further into our normal sticks and bricks non traveling daily routines.  I'll leave you with a few of today's photos and that is about it.....

THESE GODERICH HARBOR TUG BOATS ARE STILL ICED IN

WITH SMOKE COMING OUT OF THE STACK I CAN SEE WHERE THIS FISHING BOAT IS GOING THROUGH IT'S PRE-SEASON CHECK

I NOTICED THE TUG BOAT ON THE RIGHT HAS A LEAN TO PORT WHICH MAKES ME WONDER IF ICE HAS MAYBE DAMAGED THE HULL (PORT IS LEFT)

NICE TO SEE FARM ANIMALS BEGINNING TO RE-APPEAR IN LOCAL FIELDS

WITH TEMPERATURES AROUND THE FREEZING MARK I JUST LOVE SEEING ALL THIS WARMING SUNSHINE STREAMING INTO OUR SUNROOM

AND ELLIE SAYS 'I LIKE IT TOO'

THIS DOWNIE WOODPECKER DEFINITELY HAS A LEG UP ON THE COMPETITION

'OMG LOOK AT ALL THESE SEEDS'

THAT'S QUITE A LOAD THIS LITTLE BLACK CAP CHICKADEE HAS IN IT'S BILL

OUR OUTDOOR CHANDELIER SURVIVED THE WINTER

THIS GUY IS A REGULAR LITTLE SMARTY PANTS

RED BREASTED NUTHATCH

GROANER'S CORNER:(( So you want a day off. Let's take a look at what you are asking for. There are 365 days per year available for work. There are 52 weeks per year in which you already have 2 days off per week, leaving 261 days available for work. Since you spend 16 hours each day away fron work, you have used up 170 days, leaving only 91 days available. You spend 30 minutes each day on coffee break which counts for 23 days each year, leaving only 68 days available. With a 1 hour lunch each day, you used up another 46 days, leaving only 22 days available for work. You normally spend 2 days per year on sick leave. This leaves you only 20 days per year available for work. We are off 5 holidays per year, so your available working time is down to 15 days. We generously give 14 days vacation per year which leaves only 1 day available for work and I'll be darned if you are going to take that day off! Read more on page: http://www.jokesoftheday.net/jokes-archive/2010/07/17/

A SHORT MORNING JEEP RIDE AROUND BAYFIELD

IN ABOUT 6 WEEKS THESE SAILBOATS WILL BE MAKING THEIR WAY BACK TO THE BAYFIELD RIVER

Seeing a bit of pink in the early morning sky I was optimistic we may have some more sunshine today.  And so it came to pass although the temperature barely got above freezing.  Thought maybe I would try staying in and not going anywhere so stretched out in my recliner savoring the warmth of our cozy little abode.  Five minutes later I unstretched myself and with an exuberant Pheebs right behind me headed out the door into this mornings 31F temps.  Cranked up the Jeep's heater and slid ourselves into Bayfield for a slow shuffle around town.

THIS IS WHAT A FISHING BOAT LOOKS LIKE OUT OF WATER

AND THIS IS WHAT A SAILBOAT LOOKS LIKE WRAPPED FOR THE WINTER

INSTEAD OF WRAPPING THIS SAILBOAT IS COVERED

ONE OF THREE SMALL INNER HARBORS AND THIS ONE IS STILL FROZEN OVER

THE BAYFIELD RIVER ITSELF IS  NOW FREE OF ICE ALL THE WAY TO LAKE HURON

The Jeep had picked up some road salt Saturday so we stopped at the car wash and hosed all that off.  I think the last time I washed the Jeep may have been last December sometime.  Not feeling any great desire to go too far we puddled around town for another half hour then headed home.  It was not quite 10 o'clock yet.

SOMETHING DEFINITELY GOING ON WITH BAYFIELD'S SMALL BEACH

HEAVY EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN MOVING AROUND ON THE BEACH

STILL LOTS OF ICE OUT ON THE LAKE

LAKE ICE AS SEEN FROM THE BLUFFS AT PIONEER PARK

YESSIREEEE THE SPRING CLEAN UP HAS BEGUN IN BAYFIELD ALRIGHT

Although our air felt cold today it was the sunshine that later drew me out of the house again to putter around with the bird feeders.  A wee bit of melting going on.  Other than that it was a quiet day.  Looking forward to sunnier warm days ahead and getting myself outside on the end of my gardening tools starting the Spring clean-up.  Always a nice feeling cleaning up things in the Spring and having the outside looking nice again.  And of course the added bonus is the much needed exercise it takes to do all that.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A duck walks into a store and asks the guy behind the counter for duck food."Don't have any duck food. Just dog food and cat food.""Okay, thanks," the duck says, and leaves.The next day the duck comes back. Got any duck food? he asks."I told you -- only dog food and cat food.""Okay, thanks."The next day the duck shows up again, asking for duck food.Now the man behind the counter is annoyed. I've told you for three days running, we don't carry duck food."Okay, thanks."The fourth day, here comes the duck. "I'm looking for the duck food section."The counterman blows his stack. You come in here one more time and ask for duck food, and I'll nail your webbed feet to the floor. You got that?Next day the duck shows up again."What do you want?" the counterman asks threateningly. "Um, got any nails?" the duck says."No, no nails.""Okay, got any duck food?" 
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Did you hear about the very intelligent monster? He was called Frank Einstein.
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A guy in Paris steals several paintings from the Louvre Museum. But after he gets them out past security, his van runs out of gas two blocks away from the museum and he gets caught. The police ask how he could mastermind such a complex crime and then make such a moronic error. The thief replies, "I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the van Gogh."

I MAY HAVE SURVIVED THE GREAT GOOGLE BLOG KER-FUFFLE

A PAIR OF GEESE ON A COLD SATURDAY MORNING

Oh Dear this Google-Picasa-Open Live Writer-Blogger thing is all so confusing for me and no matter what I can't seem to even get to first base on understanding who's doing what to whom and whom's doing what to what.  I thought Google was going to throw a monkey wrench into Picasa on the 15th and when my post wouldn't at first publish Friday night I thought I was finally down the tubes.  Anyway it's the 16th now and Picasa still seems to be working at least for now with Blogger and I guess Blogger is better than nothing if I want to keep my blog going.  Okay, that's about enough of all this confusing stuff again......well at least until the next annoying techno fly lands in the proverbial blog ointment for me that is.  Update:: We may try another 'Open Live Writer' fix tomorrow...…………..

PAVED ROADS HAD A SKIFF OF ICE BUT NOTHING SERIOUS

GRAVEL ROADS HAD LOTS OF TRACTION

It was a cloudy cold start to the morning with a dusting of overnight snow on the ground and southerly winds blowing it around a bit.  Pheebs and I had already covered two of our three usual morning routes so today we set out to have a look at number three.  Tim Hortons coffee to go in Clinton then out around the Hullett Marsh.  

A NICE BUT COLD DRIVE THROUGH OUR RURAL COUNTRYSIDE

YES I HAD THOUGHTS OF CHRISTMAS DRIVING BY HERE

With brisk winds making it too cold to even get out of the Jeep for a leg stretch we weren't long in heading for home again.

I SPOTTED A COUPLE DOTS OUT THERE THAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION

CANADA GEESE

YAY A SUNSPLASH:))

FROZEN CORNSTOCKS

Kelly installed a new thermostat thingy for our Vermont Castings free standing stove in the sunroom today.  Sure is nice having a handy person with a lot of patience around the house. 

THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB

Despite Friday's weatherman calling for a blowing snow day skies partially cleared by late morning and we had us a sunny bright afternoon for awhile until clouds thickened up again and dumped a few more puffy snow flakes on us.  At the time of publishing this tonight we have a jingle bells snowfall drifting slowly down.

IT'S BACK

I see a few fellow Canadian RV'ers are beginning their long journeys home from the Southwest.  I'm sure glad our tiring trek is over and not just beginning.  I wonder if Arizona would consider trading places with Michigan then we wouldn't have to drive so far to get there and back twice a year.

'YA SO WHAT'!!!!

GROANER'S CORNER:(( This guy goes to a costume party with a girl on his back. "What the heck are you?" asks the host. "I'm a snail" says the guy. "But... you have a girl on your back" replied the host. "Yeah," he says, "that's Michelle!" 
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Q: How many witches does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Into what?
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Sunday after church, a Mom asked her very young daughter what the lesson was about. The daughter answered, *'Don't be scared, you'll get your quilt.'  Needless to say, the Mom was perplexed. Later in the day, the pastor stopped by for tea and the Mom asked him what that morning's Sunday school lesson was about. He said, 'Be not afraid, thy comforter is coming.'
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