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I ran a tankful through one of the antique saws today. Once I get him started, he is a screaming, vibrating, ear-ringing, chip-throwin' machine! HAHA!

2012-01-29T15:09:00.001-06:00

Yes, in wintertime the roads occasionally get slippery; especially on hills, curves, and intersections. The best thing to do if you can't comprehend that and drive appropriately? STAY HOME!

2012-01-28T09:24:00.001-06:00

January 27th, 2012

2012-01-27T16:09:00.000-06:00

I was out for a little walk this morning before a customer cleaned out the firewood store.

2012-01-23T10:56:00.001-06:00

Workin' for a livin' (workin') Workin' for a livin' (workin') Workin' for a livin', livin' and workin' I'm taking what they giving 'cause I'm working for a livin'.

2012-01-21T16:18:00.001-06:00

Workin' for a livin' (workin') Workin' for a livin' (workin') Workin' for a livin', livin' and workin' I'm taking what they giving 'cause I'm working for a livin'.

2012-01-21T16:17:00.001-06:00

At 1:00am this morning it was -17 °F below zero.

2012-01-20T16:51:00.005-06:00

Throughout the day it snowed an inch and a half.

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The sun came out tonight just in time to set!

2012-01-20T16:51:00.001-06:00

2012-01-18T09:46:00.001-06:00

The Castle Rock Family ATV Club Annual Winter Poker Run on Castle Rock Lake has been canceled. Due to the unusually warm winter the ice is not safe this year. :-(

2012-01-17T16:46:00.001-06:00

Bluejays stand out nice in the snow too!

2012-01-17T09:17:00.009-06:00

Cardinals are so pretty in a snowstorm!

2012-01-17T09:17:00.007-06:00

The bird convention.

2012-01-17T09:17:00.005-06:00

Mooooooo. Snowing a little harder.

2012-01-17T09:17:00.003-06:00

It's donut time! Vroooom vrooooom.......

2012-01-17T09:17:00.001-06:00

Another great day at the office!

2012-01-16T17:41:00.001-06:00

Snowy winter day in Easton......

2012-01-14T11:13:00.001-06:00

I work fast!

2012-01-13T21:59:00.000-06:00

Restocking The Firewood Store

2012-01-12T11:49:00.001-06:00

Tonight's star trail experiment........the bright one is Venus.

2012-01-10T18:44:00.001-06:00

This morning I share with you the opposite of the sun rising.........the moon setting!

2012-01-10T07:35:00.001-06:00

Working in the Wisconsin woods, January 2012. I dub thee.......Winter of the Weak.

2012-01-06T16:35:00.001-06:00

A warm and sunny January day in Easton, WI.

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Cool days = productive days.

2012-01-03T11:35:00.001-06:00

New Year's Day 2012 - Grand Marsh, WI

2012-01-01T10:02:00.001-06:00

The Moon and Venus.....still warm from the memory card! HAHA!

2011-12-27T17:19:00.001-06:00

Junior and Tracie's house all lit up for Christmas!

2011-12-24T21:01:00.003-06:00

Friendship Lake and Mound at sunset on Christmas Eve.

2011-12-24T21:01:00.001-06:00

The day before Christmas, 2011, in Grand Marsh, Wisconsin. We have much less snow-cover than normal, but yet there is still enough to make it a little bit white.

2011-12-24T10:33:00.001-06:00

Looking back through my journal records, on this day in 2007 I wrote that we got 12 inches of snow and had 45mph winds. The snow just got deeper that winter, 111 inches! Here are a few pics I took then.

2011-12-23T07:59:00.001-06:00

Thanks for the help today Junior! I am glad to have a great friend like you!

2011-12-10T16:12:00.001-06:00

The lunar eclipse, moments ago, at 1°F.....

2011-12-10T07:11:00.001-06:00

Yup, just another day at the office.......I love it! But I think I need to have a serious talk with the maintenance men, sometimes I have to wear a sweater in my cubicle and when it snows the parking lot is slippery. HOHO!

2011-12-07T17:25:00.001-06:00

Since the snow hasn't started piling up yet, I have been taking advantage of this time to cut wood waaaaay out in the brush where I can't get to it in deep snow!

2011-12-06T18:15:00.001-06:00

The tree is up. HOHOHO!

2011-12-06T07:38:00.001-06:00

What's on my feet?! Well, I call them winter boots. You can't buy the good ones like these at Pamida or Target, you have to go where the real outdoorsman shop (farmers, construction workers, ice fishermen). They keep my feet happy and so am I!

2011-12-02T16:33:00.012-06:00

My shadow. I like my shadow. Standing there all by itself in the cold and never once complains. Good shadow, my wood cutting partner.....HA!

2011-12-02T16:33:00.009-06:00

It was a little frosty today.

2011-12-02T16:33:00.007-06:00

That dead white oak has to come down before it falls in the pond. Today was the day.

2011-12-02T16:33:00.005-06:00

Ok Daena, it's all cut up and won't split itself, get going.

2011-12-02T16:33:00.003-06:00

Ok Daena, all split, now it isn't going to load itself, get going!

2011-12-02T16:33:00.001-06:00

The little forest within the forest.......

2011-12-02T16:32:00.003-06:00

Last load of the day and I had to leave a few behind. Until next time.......

2011-12-02T16:32:00.001-06:00

Collage of a few Fall pics.

2011-12-01T19:51:00.001-06:00

Number of households heating with wood rises

2011-12-01T16:39:00.001-06:00

Local wood stove shop owners and installers say they're seeing an uptick in people switching to their products to save on energy costs in the floundering economy......

http://www.redding.com/news/2011/nov/27/number-of-households-heating-with-wood-rises-a/

2011-12-01T06:32:00.001-06:00

Please put this on your status if you know someone who is an asshole. Or maybe a two-faced bastard, or someone who deserves a good hard punch in the face. Or a major selfish 'me me me' drama queen. These idiots affect the lives of many. There is still no known cure for these dickheads, but we can raise awareness.

2011-11-26T19:49:00.001-06:00

And the sun sets on another Thanksgiving Day! The turkey was great, the cranberry sauce, the mashed potatoes, deviled eggs,.....heck, everything was great! Except maybe the gravy tasted a little weird....

2011-11-24T17:01:00.001-06:00

Missing Photos......Fixed!

2011-11-23T13:12:00.002-06:00

Suddenly some of the photos in a few of my picture-stories here on Daenabook disappeared. After a bit of detective work, I was able to diagnose and repair the problem. I had reorganized some of my Picasa albums, like I always do, but I had accidentally left the new album containing those photos set to private. All fixed now!

And down it goes again.....

2011-11-18T16:34:00.001-06:00

We still have a little snow that hasn't melted yet, but it's going almost as fast as Snoopy was on our walk today!

2011-11-11T14:48:00.001-06:00

At the height of the storm! 11/9/11 first snow of the season, 4 inches.

2011-11-10T07:21:00.001-06:00

11/9/11 Snowstorm

2011-11-09T09:15:00.001-06:00

It's snowing! Snowing! Snowing! Yay!

2011-11-09T06:00:00.000-06:00

A sunrise picture for you.........December 27th, 2009.

2011-11-08T08:00:00.001-06:00

A few of my avian pals.

2011-11-06T15:39:00.001-06:00

Another gorgeous Autumn day!

2011-11-05T15:59:00.001-05:00

A beautiful, crisp, clear, frosty, November morn!

2011-11-04T08:31:00.000-05:00

Enjoying the cool, clear night, with Halloween approaching!

2011-10-27T19:43:00.003-05:00

Looking up from my front yard moments ago, in the glow of the firelight......

2011-10-27T19:43:00.001-05:00

My delivery fleet, loaded and ready to go.

2011-10-27T09:34:00.001-05:00

Moments ago........KABOOOM!

2011-10-23T19:36:00.001-05:00

My pumpkin walkin' buddies!

2011-10-23T07:09:00.007-05:00

The girls with the monster that ended up creeping behind us for much of the pumpkin walk.

2011-10-23T07:09:00.005-05:00

The witch cafe! We all had a good laugh when they told us what kinds of people their food was made from!

2011-10-23T07:09:00.003-05:00

The 'lighted' pumpkin walk. It got even darker than this the second time around when they had put out the candles for the night already and we were the only ones still out there! Fun!!

2011-10-23T07:09:00.001-05:00

If your homegroup network password won't work on one computer, make a note of this.....check your date/time!

2011-10-22T08:18:00.000-05:00

I had used the password previously with no problems (the other computers were already joined to the network) but one lone computer was giving me grief. It kept telling me that the password was incorrect. I knew without a doubt that the password was right, but it wouldn't accept it and join the homegroup. Turns out that it was the 21st of the month and I thought it was the 22nd when setting the date/time on the computer. Changed it to the correct day and it all worked! So, the big mystery is why did Windows 7 keep telling me the password was incorrect when in fact it was the date that was incorrect? Stupid computers.....

Two years running......Maze Masters!

2011-10-21T22:05:00.007-05:00

The maze at sunset.

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My fellow Maze Masters!

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Looking up out of the maze.

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The ferry ride home.

2011-10-21T22:04:00.001-05:00

A frosty morn......

2011-10-21T07:26:00.001-05:00

Welcome to my backyard on this breezy autumn evening!

2011-10-19T20:12:00.001-05:00

big pecker.wmv

2011-10-19T12:45:00.000-05:00

Like many non-hardy Wisconsinites, Karen is a weather wuss. So it surprised me this morning when I asked her if it was too cold for her to go fishing with me and she said hell no let's go!

2011-10-18T12:27:00.001-05:00

Tonight's Sunset

2011-10-11T18:24:00.001-05:00

Stupidity at it's Funniest!

2011-10-10T17:12:00.002-05:00

A funny thing happened yesterday! I was carrying garbage out of the garage and loading it into the truck to go to the dump. Tommy and a few of his harem of helpers were putting a small load of hay in the barn.

Apparently Toby couldn't see me going in and out of the garage from his vantage point. He was on one of the tractors and my woodpile was blocking his view. Therefore, he also assumed that I could not see or hear him. He would turn towards Tommy and Larry, laugh real loud, stand up on the tractor, and wave in a stupid-looking motion towards my house across the road, repeating the action several times. Then he would go do something else with the tractor, come back, and repeat the whole process of looking at Tommy and Larry, laugh real high pitched and loud, stand up on the tractor, then wave with big sweeping arcs of his arm. He continued this for 10 minutes or more.

Well, I've been mocked, picked on, and used all my life by them and people much better than they are. It is actually very exciting for me to catch them in the act of mocking or lying and then I point out how stupid they are. Most other people just let it go and never say anything about it, which is why those people are the way they are because they know they can get away with it, but I don't. It's like a fun game for me! So once again, Toby began his big laugh and stupid wave while looking at Tommy and Larry, having no idea that I was working right outside and that I knew full well what he was doing; having a little fun with his homeboys at my expense. I stopped my work, stepped out into my driveway where he could plainly see me, and held my middle finger up as high and proud as I could! When he turned away from Tommy and Larry, towards me, the realization that I saw him and knew what he had been doing hit him......oh, the look on his face about made me pee my pants! HAHAHAHAHA! His mouth fell open, his eyes were wide, his waving arm lowered to half staff, he just sat there for a second like that, staring in disbelief that I had caught him in his act of stupidness with my middle finger raised so beautifully!

He then dropped quickly back into the seat of the tractor, sped off, and I never saw him again! HAHAHAHAHA! What a bunch of dumbasses! I love it!

HEY! I haven't mooned you guys in awhile, so here is tonight's! Still warm from the memory card.......

2011-10-09T20:43:00.001-05:00

Karen and Tracie in front of Bear Bluff.

2011-10-08T19:11:00.001-05:00

A drainage ditch near Bear Bluff.

2011-10-08T19:10:00.006-05:00

Karen! I can't take her anywhere. Like a little kid. HAHA!

2011-10-08T19:10:00.005-05:00

My pals!

2011-10-08T19:10:00.003-05:00

We like to call her 'Chugalug Gwen'. HAHA! ;-)

2011-10-08T19:10:00.001-05:00

The orange bucket is the finish line - Snowmobile Races 10/1/11

2011-10-01T15:51:00.007-05:00

Cooling the engine between heats with leaf blowers - Snowmobile Races 10/1/11

2011-10-01T15:51:00.005-05:00

A girl racer on a nice looking Chaparral - Snowmobile Races 10/1/11

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Green flag - Snowmobile Races 10/1/11

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GO!!!! - Snowmobile Races 10/1/11

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Sometimes they fall off - Snowmobile Races 10/1/11

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Steve off the line - Snowmobile Races 10/1/11

2011-10-01T15:50:00.005-05:00

In the pits - Snowmobile Races 10/1/11

2011-10-01T15:50:00.003-05:00

1967 Rupp - Snowmobile Races 10/1/11

2011-10-01T15:50:00.001-05:00

A mushroom forest on a rainy day.

2011-09-26T14:16:00.001-05:00

As the sun goes down on another day........

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