The Interchange

Here an old road, there a new road, everywhere an orange barrel or a sign, and cranes by the dozens, and workers by the hundreds as work on the Milwaukee Marquette Interchange continues! Amazing! They are building a new interchange within the old one with relatively feew closures of the system.

Pickup Load

Going to make a few sandwiches?

Rebecca Lenore

Rebecca Lenore, my third grand daughter, was born October 24 in the Netherlands. The parents are daughter Beth and son in law Dan Stafford. It must be the year of the girl!

Sixflagszilla and the Spiders

Each October Sixflagzilla and the Spider Family take over a bit of the infrastructure at Six Flags Park near Gurnee, Illinois.

Only Five Months of __________ ! Can You Guess What?

See this story in the Ironwood Daily Globe! Just one more reason to escape to somewhere else!

Try Parking This One Downtown

I've seen a few of these moving south on I35 between Duluth and the Twin Cities. I don't know what the cargo is but it must be very, very heavy! One of these days I'll get a better shot.

Here is a view as I met a couple of the behemoths on the highway between Duluth and Brainerd. I was told by a driver who lives in Duluth that the cargo is a generator/turbine for a wind farm. They arrive in Duluth on ships from Europe and are then transported by truck to sites in the Midwest. Can you imagine that sitting atop the "pole" and having propellers that are maybe a hundred feet long attached as well? I would like to see one of these lifted to it's position! I'll next try to find out how heavy the thing is. Any help will be appreciated! Check out this site for pictures of the unloading of blades earlier this year

Copper Country Snowflake to be Famous

Check out the Ironwood Daily Globe article on snow flakes. A Copper Country snow flake will be on our postage stamps and can be seen on the lower left above. The picture of the four flakes comes from the usps web site.



usps.com/communications/news/calendar/fdevents/06_snowflakes.htm.

Its Time To Go To XM

I ran to Minnesota yesterday with a driver who has an XM reciever in his Volvo. He convinced me to get to town ASAP to pick up my hardware and start enjoying XM variety. I think I'll enjoy it!

Its High School Bowl Season.

I took time this week to stop in Ironwood and have a visit with my brother, his friend, and my nieces husband, Larry, who is the father of the well informed Randy Rovelsky, captain of the Westwood High School Bowl team. They were televised this evening and easily beat the opposition. Keep up the answering Westwood!

The Brownie!

I picked up one of those Duncan Hines Hungry Man Dinners today on the way home. Its in its second "nuking" phase as I write. The first part of the "nuking" involves 4 minutes and then carefully removing the silly little brownie. Now a "t-v dinner" as they were called in the old days is supposed to save dishes so when one removes the brownie the best place to put it is into ones mouth"

Fall 2006

Driving around the northwoods is always a special treat in late September and early October. The colors of fall never grow old to this old lover of the color season. Its one spectacular view after another.