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If you're ever aroung Ishpeming/Negaunee, MI, check out (click →) Suicide Hill Ski Jump, on Suicide Bowl Road (County Road PC), ≈ ¾ mile south of E Division St. (M-28 BUS) Negaunee, MI 49866 (Click thumbnail for larger image.) See also, from ABC10 News,January 21, 2020, (click →) Suicide Hill...

FRNash to bear in kiddy pool: "Move over, I want in!" So far this year's monsoon season1 in Phoenix has been more of a "non-soon": <tbody> Phoenix AZ Precipitation inches Since Jan 1, 2020 3.95" Since Oct 1, 2019 5.90" Measurable precipitation since March, 2020 April 11 0.08"...

Like this … (click →) SOUTH RANGE TOWNS — 1962 TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, Southern Houghton County, MI., Which includes the following information [slightly edited here by myself]: It was a bit of a shock when I arrived on campus at Michigan Tech in Houghton in September 1958 to find that the local...

Followed by this (for perhaps ≈ 20 minutes): (Click thumbnail for larger image.) A few more from the 1950s/1960s: (click →) I Love Lucy, October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957 (click →) The Jackie Gleason Show, a series of American network television shows that starred Jackie Gleason, which ran...

You had a summer job with the CRRR? When was that? That photo looks to be ca. 1974, as they were about to remove the steel turntable. Here's a photo of the roundhouse taken from the same place during the peak of operations on the Range (click thumbnail for larger image): (Photo courtesy of The...

Ditto that. A Gold Star Journal entry. Grace writes quite well. Sentence structure, grammar, spelling, all: A+ Good parents and good schools (CLK) certainly play a big part in that, along with native ability and interest. Being a voracious reader, as Grace is, contributes to that as well. Do...

Arizona is implementing a new highway sign welcoming visitors to Arizona! :devilish:

Speaking of hot dogs, I recently bought one of these packages — purely by accident: Beef Brisket hot dogs? ("Private Selection" is a Kroger brand, offered to compare with gourmet brands or regional brands that may be considered more upscale than the standard Kroger brand products.) I have...

Today's journal, June 28, 2020 "Summertime". You really know how ta live, don'cha? Now you've done it John, ya gots me craving sum Pannukakku! — at 5 o'clock in da afternoon, no less! And ya can hardly make enough for just one serving; more like enough for three or four hungry folks...

mrbb, I love your critter pictures. You sure seem to have more critters hanging around your place than most folks have in da UP! At first glance I thought this one … (Click thumbnail for larger image.) … showed a terrified wabbit (circled above) :culpability:. But I guess it's only a flower or...

Maybe someone is. I'll tell ya this — I've never heard any "Yooper", or anyone from the "Copper Country" ever refer to the Keweenaw as "The Thumb", only "Trolls" (folks that live "under" da "Big Mac" bridge) or folks from elsewhere that have never been there. Maybe you've never seen a wabbit...

Yep, absolutely. It is as obviously a rabbit as the "Thumb" is a thumb! It's a rabbit leaping from east to west over the lower peninsula's "mitten", with its nose at the mouth of the Montreal River, its eyebrows at the Porkies (do "wabbits have eyebwows"?), its ears are the Keweenaw (where'ja...

The thumb? Well that's a new one, I sure have never heard of the Lac La Belle area referred to as "The Thumb". I guess I don't no nuthin' 'bout joggerfy [sic], but I kin "lurn sumptin' new ever day" [sic]. c.f. (click →) Wikipedia: The Thumb | Thumb counties. Dat sure looks like a Thumb!

That was your dog? Whoa, what kind of dog was that? I thought it was a Bison! Maybe something like my cousin Jack Nara's dog "Freckles" … (the official receptionist at his veterinary practice in Houghton, MI, circa 1960)?

You really outdid yourself with this week's journal, John. Loved it! Twenty-three photos? A new record? I particularly enjoyed the sugarbush tour. Wow, how the sugaring bizness has changed since the operation I saw at the Naras' sugar camp in Bootjack back in the 1960s. No more buckets hanging...

The pictures: resize ‘em, flip ‘em on dere heds, or not, I don’t care. BUT ME LIKUM DAT WIKKID YELLER HORNET! :encouragement:

I guess ya gots ta cover yer eyes as well; I tell ya it's full burqua time: ( :devilish: )

Well that didn't take long!

Whut? Whoo, me? :redface-new: ( :blush: ) Whadd'I do ta deserve dat, eh? But tanks fer dat, jr37. I can concur with that, and Dcsnoman as well!

How does coronavirus kill? The following article, from a well-regarded publication, that attempts to explain what it s about the novel corona virus (COVID-19) that has wreaked so much havoc over the last 4-5 months. While there are some technical terms that are pretty sophisticated within the...