Random pictures Nov 12-30

 Not much to talk about over these past 2 weeks. My wife Wendie has been hard at work making X-mas presents. I purchased an enclosed double snowmobile trailer. We've had a few small snow events. The ground is once again mostly bare. The temps have been in the 20's at night and low  30's in the daytime. The lake is ice covered but not safe to go out on. Wisconsin firearms deer season ended on Sunday. Wearing orange outside is the smart thing to do during the 9 day season. Again this year we had two hunters shoot an Elk thinking it was a deer. Elk are about 3 times bigger than our white tail deer and have different coloring. These two animals were also wearing an orange tracking collar. I have no words for the stupidity of some people. I've been doing a few things up in my new garage. I built two platforms to fit on the racks of my ATV. They will come in handy as a place to put buckets of sand for extra traction when I'm plowing the driveway this winter. I hung a shelf and got my stereo reciever and 5 disc CD player hooked up. It will be nice to have tunes out there. I had some 2 inch R-10 foam insulation left over so I cut a piece for each of the windows. It should help cut down on the heat loss.

Wendie's been hard at work making X-mas gifts. Quilts (top 2), wall hanging (center) and pot holders (bottom 2). The fish quilt and the deer wall hanging still needs to be quilted and the bottom 2 pot holders need their binding finished.

Picked up this new double snowmobile trailer on Nov 14 at Central Trailers in East Bethel, MN. It'll also haul 2 ATV's or a couple motorcycles.

Stopped at the liquor store for some Crown Royal and saw this. Is the Pack back?

This nice buck came by on the 16th and the 19th about 8:30am. I wonder if he survived the hunting season? I'll be keeping an eye out for him.

Monday the 16th was another nice day in northern Wisconsin.

Sunset on the 19th.

My buddy Art picked up this nice 2007 Harley 1200 sportster custom with 8200 miles and new tires on the 17th down in Inver Grove Heights MN. It had just been serviced and then the owner hurt his back and can't ride anymore. He paid four grand for it, a fair price. It also came with a cover and battery tender.

Some fresh snow on the 22nd. It's pretty much gone today the 30th.

The ATV all ready to push some snow. Each bucket has about 30 pounds of sand in it. I'll see how that works out as I can always add more sand. I may need to buy chains for the tires but I'm going to wait and see how this works out.

I keep the garage heated to 42 degrees unless I'm working out there. It heats up very quickly with this heater.

Got foam in the windows and the tunes hooked up and ready to go. My reciever is a Pioneer SX 434 from about 1974, and still works great. I'm using a TEAC PD-D2410 CD player. The speakers are custom from Innovox Audio in St. Paul, MN.

Snow is pretty much gone today the 30th.

And finally todays sunset Nov 30th at 4:25 pm.

Indian Summer (Nov 2-9)

 This year in northern Wisconsin we had the best Indian summer since we moved here in 2016. For 8 days we had temps in the 60's to mid 70's. The entire week before the temps were in the 30's.  On Monday I spent some time splitting wood and then we had a great sunset which was a great start to a great week.

Monday nights sunset.

Tuesday was our national election day.

The line at our polling place about 8am. From what I've heard we had a large turn out. Social distancing was the order of the day which I'm all for. Tuesday afternoon I did ribs on my smoker grill and they were great.

Wednesday I spent a large part the day splitting and stacking wood. I'm glad that I have a gas wood splitter. Before dark I was able to take my XT250 dirt bike out for a last ride of the year and put on about 25 miles.

This is the wood that I've cut and split over the past few days, spending a few hours each day, about 3 face cords.

Thursday I spent most of the day golfing with 3 good friends at Butternut Hills in Birchwood WI. The temp was around 70 degrees.

My friends, Monica in the pink, Mary in the gray and Art in the cart. We didn't golf very well but had a great time. Mary parred 4 holes which made her very happy.

Friday was another great weather day, which meant it was time for a motorcycle ride with my friend Erik. I rode the Harley. We met in Clam Lake WI at 1pm.

The view from our deck about noon on Friday the 6th.

We stopped in Mellen WI for a pop and to decide were to next.

I ended up putting about 100 miles on our little ride.

These were taken along WI. HWY 77 near Clam Lake. Yes there is a small herd of Elk, about 200-300 in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.

There are some great rustic roads up here in northern WI. Some are paved and some are gravel.

One of the small lakes along this rustic road. It was a great day for a ride.

On saturday I took my Yamaha FJR 1300 for a nice ride of 100 miles.

Gassed up and ready to go.

The Chippewa Flowage. A great fishery in northern Wiconsin with big Muskies.

They do a drawdown every fall. It looks like about 4 feet this year.

A couple more views from this same spot.

Down the road a little farther along County road CC.

Stopped in the town of Winter for these 3 pictures. The temp was 72 and I got these pictures of an old Caterpillar D8. I wonder how many roads it helped build in this area.

This is my kind of road.

These 3 pictures were taken near Moose Lake of the Teal River.

Taken along Highway 77. Was it waiting for road kill or just taking a rest.

I got a little crazy with the throttle a couple times on todays ride.

Almost home now. The Chief river a couple miles from home.

Less than a mile from home and the channel leading to another part of the Tiger Cat Flowage which we reside on.

Placid Lake of the Tiger Cat Flowage were we have our home. Saturday ended up being a great day for a ride.

Sunday morning the deer stopped by for a drink of water before breakfast, then I put out their daily ration of food. I only feed them when I see them.

They are so cute. After I fed the deer and had my breakfast I headed out for one last round of golf with my friends Monica, Mary and Art.

Here we are on the first tee at Butternut Hills. Here are a few pictures of the course.

 It's a pretty wide open course which helps us golfers that aren't the straightest drivers of the golf ball.

Here we are at the end of our round and the end of the season for us up here in northern Wisconsin. We will be back in the spring.

Today (Tuesday) I had to throw a tarp over the shed because it needs to be reshingled. It will need to be done in the spring. I found out that popsicle sticks and staples work very well at holding it in place.

Hope you enjoyed this post.

Waiting for snowmobile season at this point. They are calling for 6 inches of snow tonight.