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FRNash: Note to self FRNash: note to self: Once you have placed someone on your ignore list … (Click thumbnail for full size image.) … you should have the good sense to do that, and resist the urge to click on that "View Post" link out of compelling curiosity. There's an old saying about...

"pronounced La Anse"? "chit from shinola"? Speaking of which: Listen to this: (click →) How to pronounce L'Anse (and note where it says "in: michigan") For the clueless: click on the little arrowhead on that web page to listen. (Click on the thumbnail for full size image.) Hint (Click on each...

WALLA? Yer sleddin' in WALLA WALLA, Washington? Or maybe voilà? (It's French, ya know.) SHINNING? Like SHINNING up a tree? er, no… that's shinnying. I guess you wouldn't need to be shinnying up a tree 'cuz Cats climb trees, no shinnying required! [English is a dying language; some folks are...

From the (click →) March 27, 2018, PastyCam (small 'w') "wayback machine"1 in the winter of '64, when the Polaris Sno-Traveler was the hottest trend on the trails (Picture is from March 27, 2005). (Click thumbnail for full size image.) (1 Not the real (click →) Wayback Machine. )

Iron Mountain/Kingsford, MI (Click thumbnail to view full size.)

Why Snowmobiling Will End? 'Cuz all you snomobiew jockeys and your nasty, noisy, intwusive snowmobiews are stwessful to (moose and) wolves and elk (and pwobabwy all the fowwest cwitters). Maybe even wabbits and ducks! :eek-new: The enviwonmentawists are pissed, and they're gonna be coming for...

Mention of B-17 Bombers in da UP reminds me of this: Have you ever thought of riding under the Mackinac Bridge? How about trying it in one of these: (Click thumbnail image for larger.) On April 24, 1959, USAF Captain John Lappo, a Muskegon, MI, native flew an RB-47 Stratojet under the Bic Mac...

And there's this as well, also from TV6/uppermichigansource.com, (click →) "Woman threatens to blow up social security building; was just kidding". Whut? With "serial bombings" in Austin, TX, and yet another school shooting, this time at Great Mills High School in Great Mills, MD, that kind of...

Who knew! And there he is with wunna dem Bears? Oh no, that's a "Striped Tiger". In the immortal words of Gilda Radner as Emily Litella, on Saturday Night Live, circa 1975-1978): "Never mind".

You read (snowmobile) "treads", er … "tracks"? How does that work, can you read the future in the pattern of the lugs (or perhaps studs), like reading tea leaves? :devilish:

Well, I have to say it: That was a well written trip report. It was an absolute joy to read. Clear, coherent, real paragraphs (instead of a whole page of solid run-on blur). Real sentences and real punctuation even. Nary a spelling glitch to stumble over while reading, no apostrophes used in...

That sounds very familiar, and I agree 100%! After twenty years as an airplane owner (and several earlier years renting) I logged thousands of hours and spent an obscene amount of loot on an obscenely expensive "hobby"1, and loved every minute of it. Now, pushing 78 years, after two heart...

Ahaa, VRBO! Good to know, thanks!

Is she still there?

Yep, he passed away July 4, 1995 (aged 52), but 20+ years later his painting videos are like this guy, they just keep going and going and going …

Here ya go, this seems to meet your criteria: Will this work fer ya? Say hello to Norman, he's well into his 80s now, and had to downsize from the original ten unit motel after that nasty business in the 1960s). :devilish:

For anyone headed across the Big Mac bridge this week: This from uppermichiganssource.com, posted: Tue 12:36 PM, Feb 27, 2018, (click →) Additional closures possible on Mackinac Bridge this week. Quoted here in part: