On Wednesday, we had our second blizzard of the month, white out conditions and cancellation of a Christmas get together with the Bear Clan, lower peninsula family and visitors from LA. But, I did have the opportunity to plow snow for most of the day on Thursday.
This morning I woke up at 6:30 am and checked the weather conditions, the decks were nice and clean from the shoveling the previous day. Turned on the coffee maker, watched my morning news and by 8:30 a.m. we had six inches of snow on the decks. As the picture indicates, once outside, I had no problem seeing the house since it was the largest pile of snow, but it took Dutch and I an hour to find the snowplow and dig it out. We spent the remainder of the day plowing snow, again! It was falling as fast as I was plowing. Finishing up this evening it was still snowing and continues to plummet us, so I guess I will plow snow again tomorrow or give up and spend the rest of the winter watching it pile up. I love the snow so much! If you were wondering, the Hole In the Wall is not restricted to access by snow machine, snow shoes or skis - it will be spring before the plow gets in there again.


I did discover a new fishery that I think we should explore. A group of biologist in Japan have discovered the habitat of the "giant squid". They did get some very good photographs of them in their natural habitat. One of the biologist rigged up some trolling gear. It appears to be a flasher and he used squid as scent. They managed to hook one of the "giant squid" and get it to the surface. Upon reaching the surface, it died before they could get it released, it measured 24 feet long. Now 24 feet does not seem that great of a length, however, when you put it into the proper context, this squid was eight feet longer than the boat that the "Bull Moose" uses to troll in Cook Inlet. Remember that boat several of you spent the day on while fishing lower Cook Inlet for King Salmon last spring? "Giant Squid" and "Submarines", perhaps Jules Verne had a greater knowledge than he is credited. As for me, I am not going to fish with squid ever again!

As for the big news today, just watched the video feed of the hanging of Saddam, they did not show the actual hanging, just placing the noose around his neck - the only thing I have against this execution is that they used a "new rope", that was more than he deserved. As "Gus" (Robert Duvall) said in the movie Lonesome Dove as he was preparing to hang an outlaw, "It is a pleasure to hang someone like you, now go tell it to the devil"