All About the Best Place on Earth

Blue Lake in Minocqua, Wisconsin.

My Northwoods Viewing Habits

Media I had never seen before (or don’t remember seeing) before I saw ‘em these past few months in the Northwoods:

BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT – Classic Summertime with the kids movie experience.  A chock-full action-packed bonanza which could have done without the whole Malaysian connection for a tighter pull and more even action-drama balance.  As [...]

There Will Be Snow

On nice days on the prairie, one must:

chop firewood
stack firewood
collect kindling
harvest natural materials for art
gather food stuffs

Because THERE WILL BE SNOW.
P.S. I’m pretty Baraked.  How about you?

On a Roll

Sweating through Nevada, crawling over Utah, chugging up Colorado, blasting through Nebraska, rolling over Iowa, billowing past Minnesota, brewing in Wisconsin.
Pictures to follow.
We need to get some high-speed internet up in here.

Chicken Challenge

Yet another reason to love The Great Northwoods…
From the local casino:
Chicken Challenge
Location: Casino Main Entrance
Torchlight Club members are invited to play a game of Tic-Tac-Toe against a chicken everyday at the casino main entrance.
Beat the chicken and you’ll win $500! And, play on Fridays and Saturdays when you’ll win $1,000!

Add a Peeled Carrot and Simmer

Back to avoiding daylight hours… sigh…

No More Painkillers

Today was the first day I was able to function without popping any post-op pills. Yesterday I downed a few Advil at the last minute so that doesn’t count. I inspected the inner-workings of my jawline with a mini flashlight and discovered that there’s no more alien fluid sloshing around the crater [...]

In the Bedroom with a 1040

Dude, it looks like someone murdered a CPA in here.

In the Year 100,000

Yay!  100,000 hits for me!

An Investigation by Lizzy

Is this a situation of mad science?

Idle hands as the doctor’s play things?

The Machine’s Little Shop of Horrors?
One of these containers may just hold a two-ton pumpkin.