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    Big Bay - Gas?

    (click →) Google Maps: Thunder Bay Inn, Big Bay Michigan. It's set quite far back from the road. Check the pictures from the menu at the left. The addition, where the bar is now? Maybe the part on the left here, from the Google pictures(?): And then there's the rather crude, primitive (click →)...
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    Big Bay - Gas?

    1. From IMDB: (click →) Anatomy of a Murder, Filming locations. Note: 2. (click →) Google Maps, 202 Bensinger Street, Big Bay, Michigan. (Note the reviews in the left panel, four of which were written within the last month, 26 within the last year.) 3. Google Street View: 4. (This 'sheet'...
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    Bridge Closed

    Yes, some engines they were! See the (click →) Wisconsin Maritime Museum's Chief Wawatam Steam Engine here. Shades of the (click →) RMS Titanic's two reciprocating four-cylinder, triple-expansion steam engines! No surprise, the Chief and the Titanic were in fact contemporaries(!): Titanic...
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    Bridge Closed

    As a matter of fact, that was it exactly. Just FWIW, the live link to the Current Mackinac Bridge Conditions looked like this from yesterday afternoon until early today: (Click thumbnail for larger image.) I guess I should have posted that earlier. I haven't heard of that happening before...
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    MN North Shore

    "Make sure you bring a gammon"? A "gammon"? — which flavor would you suggest?: A cut of quick-cured pork leg. A British hand grenade used during World War II. The Russian Angara/Vega/Dubna surface-to-air missile system (SA-5 Gammon — the NATO designation). The rope lashing or iron hardware...
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    Weather Models?

    With some diligent searching, er …"exploring", I've found some of those Weather Models. As you say robinson, some might be be quite fun to watch, others not so much. :devilish: As you see, there are many different models, from a variety of places: Ooops! Наталья Клименко знает все о...
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    Here's Your Sign

    That looks very much like the old "Greenland (Michigan) weather station", but a much smaller rock. Q: Now why can't I find that old Greenland weather station picture right now? :upset: A: 'Cuz it was the Rockland weather station! [Duh!¹] ¹ As Hal said in "2001: A Space Odyssey":
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    HI within range

    Q: So where the hеll was I in February 1971 that I never heard anything about this? A: Developing GECO/GCOS operating system software for (click →) GE600 & Honeywell 6000 series general purpose computer systems. (In assembly language, no less!) In fact, strange as it may seem, that was...
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    not a winter wallup

    "wallup"? Huh? :indecisiveness: Like to "wall up" in a "snow fort"? Or as in the (click →) Urban Dictionary: "wallup"? Or maybe you mean (click →) wallop ? [English is a dying language!]
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    Big bay area

    "ROCK"quette, "BROWN"Bay and "BARE"aga: Points for givin' em' the PUN-ishment they deserve … for spelling, not so much! ("Kewaneenaw"? [Aaack!] That snarky remark aside, your trail reports set a new standard. :encouragement: Maybe the JD forum sled jockeys should start a (click →) GoFundMe...
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    Bad behavior

    As in the immortal words of Julius Caesar (almost): "We came, we seen, we conquered"? Aaaack! [English is a dying language!] And of course …
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    Winter storm warning — Jacksonvilke, FL

    Ooops “Jacksonvilke”? — Darn iPad and its virtual keyboard! (And once posted the thread title can’t be changed). Arrgh! :sour: As a veteran of several winters in the Copper Country, and after reading John’s journal this week, with the pictures of the Dee family’s road trip back to snow country...
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    NWS Marquette Winter Monitor

    This looks like a good reference to keep an eye on: (click →) NWS Marquette Winter Monitor.
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    Dolly recommendation

    The "original": … is now just less than a month short of age 72 (born January 19, 1946).
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    Merry x-ma's everyone

    "Hyvää joulua kaikille!" And may all you "moottorikelkka ratsastajat" have a … (click →) Valkea Joulu1 — korostamalla "Valkea"! (YouTube video, 3 min. + 46 sec.) (1 Lyrics): Taas valkeata joulua keskellä suurten hankien, muistan joulun aikaa se kuinka saikaan mun taas taakse vuosien...
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    Bummed out

    Where's Lucy? Haven't you heard? Lucy van Pelt has left the ol' football … … behind years ago, and has been employed for the last several years as a TV meteorologist in Pechoggin, WI. :sneakiness:
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    Tracker - where u at?

    I wuz noticing that too, seems Tracker has gone missing, hasn't posted since 11-22-2017 02:38 PM! What'd he do, run into a big ol' Amazon squatch who carried him away … To live happily ever after :couple_inlove: in her cave/den/lair/hooch or whatever?
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    Race fuel

    Recycled cooking oil!
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    Shingleton snowmobile accident

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