Happy Birthday from Griffendor

It's Leahs 12th Birthday.

The dog wanted in on the singing.

Dos Candelikas

Pretty hairy ride south

0 degrees, fierce wind from the west, lots of snow drifting across US43.

A pack of Feral Brittanys

I am not sure how my brother managed to get off our frozen bay on Shag lake with this pack of killers closing in, but some how, he did. Perhaps he rubbed their bellies. We'll probably never know.

Almost midnight

almost warm inside the cabin

dinner @ micky lu's

Menominee BBQ

12 cars OTR so far

and only at Sheboygan.

done shovelling

heading north - 300 miles.

S.Coast Coaster decision delayed

Agency delays decision on coaster brook trout
by The Associated Press
Saturday December 06, 2008, 10:42 AM

MARQUETTE, Mich. - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delayed a decision on whether to place the coaster brook trout on the endangered species list.

The agency had planned to make a tentative decision by Dec. 15 about the fish, which once thrived in the upper Great Lakes.

But Jessica Hogrefe, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife regional office in Minneapolis, tells The Mining Journal of Marquette for a Saturday story the agency is pushing back the decision until April to get more data.

"Coasters" are a type of brook trout that migrate from streams to lakes. Their historical range took in parts of Lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior, with spawning runs in more than 50 streams flowing into Lake Superior from Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin.