Dear Newspaper Company, newspaper in Snow Blower.

151230 Dear Newspaper Company.
One more reason you are going out of business and being replaced by  Internet news.
Please do NOT throw the newspaper in the driveway.
1) Especially when it snows and there is no clue where or IF a newspaper is there.  It takes considerable time and effort, sometimes with a chisel and hammer and frozen hands, to remove a newspaper from the snow blower, and then also replacing the shear pin.
2) A paper laying in the driveway can signal burglars that no one is home, a prime target for theft. I then blame the NEWSPAPER company for the theft.

 
 Neighbor Rons snow blower.

My Snow blower, paper stuck in chute.

Pic - Rons snowblower newspaper
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150102 White Homer Pigeon Camouflage in snow

Camouflage.
. . . . 2.5 is a 9yo Homer Pigeon. She comes to the patio door everyday and begs to come in the house. I let her in for a few hours... some treats, a nap, then she asks to be let out again.

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This was such a busy day - Chicken footprints

This was such a busy day, so many things to do. It seems I was on the move all day

Feeling hot ? - 4-1/2 feet of melting snow to green leaves in 40 seconds.

One picture per day from March 6, 2011 to April 4, 2011, from Bert's Chicken Cam (skipped days where there was no change). . 
 

060729 Pikes Peak the Hard way.

This is as far up as I could drive.

My daughter Cindy L chose to come up the hard way and meet us near the top  (Pikes Peak, near Denver Colorado).

(Repost from Yahoo 360 - July 29, 2006)

Since It’s   SO HOT   in so many places (95 here)  I thought it would be nice to  “think cold”, therefore, Winter pictures.


 These are Ice Caves near our Wisconsin farm/cabin on Lake Superior. Many of these caves are large enough to contain whole houses including the garage. Not many people get to see this because it was a very difficult 2 mile walk over jagged ice chunks and snow along the shore to get here… and it was 20 below zero F (-29c). I have lots of pictures, here are a few. There are hundreds of these caves, all covered in ice.
 


Water seeps from the roof of the caves and freezes. The water is 30 to 40 feet deep under our feet. The ice is maybe 3 feet thick.



Some caves go for hundreds of feet and connect with other caves so you can come out somewhere else.


The entire shoreline is covered in ice-falls.  This is a HUGE cave.


This is Lake Superiors Apostle Islands, 90 miles East of Duluth Minnesota. Our fruit farm and cabin are on a high hill overlooking the lake and Islands. In Summer we have boated thousands of miles amongst the islands and camped on all of them.  There are many beautiful lighthouses.  
 


Across the street from our house in town,  my neighbor girl and her dog. I got an award for this photo, it was on the cover of our City's annual calendar.


View out our back door of house in town.


Melting snow sliding off pole barn roof


Roasting Wienies in town at 20 below zero way back in the back yard Fire pit.    It was so cold our hot chocolate froze.
 


The Chickens hate to walk in the snow so Ace L clears paths around the yard for them.

There, do you feel cooler now ? ? ?

Look See Quick before it melts

CAN you FIND the white pigeon in the tree? We got 7" of fresh snow last night, It's beautiful.