Late December

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Turkeys seem to be everywhere! They are tracking the place up like never before.



Here you can see some tracks and wing marks of a roof walking turkey....



And another one here.



This photo is nice enlarged....



We got the tree up on the Friday before Christmas. Now it's time to get it down and out again.

Vacation has been better since my cold disappeared. Had the 'opportunity' to plow the road a few times, put wood in the boiler twice a day, keep the lodge warm and spend some time out there, as well. But the time is flying by and my vacation will turn back to suffering through days at work.... go figure.

I gotta go, Carlo


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Another installment.

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O.K., so it's the holiday season, time to play new "renditions" of old carols. I take great liberties with the melodies, chords, etc, cause I can't play them 'correctly'. But I have fun and Peg does not put in ear plugs, so....



The turkeys occasionally land up in a tree that is really to small for them to perch in properly. It's fun to watch them teeter there for a few moments and then flap back to the ground.



I have had lots of viewing of turkeys these last weeks.



On Dec. 16th & 17th, Rosie was here for a change of pace. She just finished all her school stuff for this semester and needed some sit-around time.



We cooked a big batch of spaghetti sauce. It was really good, if I do say so.



Later in the day Donna came down and we all ate spaghetti, garlic bread and corn.



And then the games came out and there was total concentration, except for me. I just sat around and loafed....

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A good one for this time of year. Every letterbox drops 'Santa letters' directly onto his desk. Sweet!!


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Days 3, 4, 5, Carlo's 2008 vacation.....

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Ah, 'tis the season.... this is from a few years ago, a festive lodge indeed!

I hate to complain, but this is not working out the way I had planned. I mentioned the scratchy throat, well Friday I went to the bowling alley in Prentice (D's Burger &Bowl) to meet a few friends and plan an ice fishing trip for Saturday. Maybe I spent a wee bit too much time 'planning', but Saturday and Sunday were spent under a blanket in the recliner, with only trips out to fire the stove.... Doh!!! Cold go away!!!



This cold weather has provided plenty of opportunity for the above sight. I don't mind winter that much, but it has been consistently colder than I would like it in December. I need to get going on my planned vacation projects, including cutting firewood for the lodge.



This morning the turkeys visited and spent an hour huddled under the flowering crab tree. They fluff up the feathers on their backs, pull their heads close to the body, sit or stand on one leg and don't move. After a while it's like they awake from a long sleep and one by one they begin stirring and end up marching single file into the woods.

Til next time..... I gotta go, Carlo


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I like this one. You get an idea of his distance by checking the blocks in the sidewalk and remember that he is actually on the sidewalk near those far-away cracks..... I wonder if he planned it for a certain time of day, or was it cloudy and he just chalked in a shadow for the woman in the photo?




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