Apple harvest

Small yard gardening. This dwarf apple tree is 4 years old and has produced two crops.



These apples have been made into a pie, filling for mid winter pie(s) and dried fruit. Mrs. Shutterwi was busy this weekend.

Grampa elf.

This is "the minnesota twins" Grampa elf working on the latest project for the twins new room.

Morning fog on Chequamegon Bay

The ship in the top photo is the Kiwi a Great Lakes research vessel.

The view today...and tomorrow. Strange!

This is a view that many an Ashlander and US 2 traveler will have to get use to. Looking East on US 2.

Soo Line / Oredock US 2 viaduct removal. Part 2.

Getting ready to lift the viaduct off of the trestle. Connecting the lifting straps. One estimate of the weight was 100,000 to 150,000 lbs. The crane was rated for 210,000 lbs.


Cutting (torching) the final connections loose.


Cutting (torching) the final connections loose.

Soo Line / Oredock US 2 viaduct removed today.

The viaduct over US 2 was removed today at 11:50 P.M. It was removed for saftey reason after an engineering inspection found major deterioration of the trestle leading up and onto the Oredock. More photo coming tomorrow.

One I owe you!

I know.....enough of the fish already!

This is a photo I took on the way to work this morning. When I uploaded this photo from the camera it was one of 27 pictures. That's 27 pictures in the last 10 days. Sad! Well as I have said before this is my busy time of the year.

This is gremlin chasing season. Gremlin chasing is trying to find and solve problems (gremlins) on the school network. With each new change in the network it always seems to release a new batch of gremlins. Gremlins can run and they do hide. Today's score was Gremlins 2 IT guy (me) 2. So at best I'm breaking even.

Well thanks for sticking with me and visting. See you soon.

Gone Gremlin Hunting.

In keeping with the weekend theme.....

..let's do something different. We went stream fishing. This was the first time Mrs. Shutterwi and I went streaming fishing. Although we have spend many a day fishing in the small lakes here in northern Wisconsin this was something different.

We managed to catch several brook trout like this one. Most were smaller and so we released them. In the section of the stream we were fishing on a seven inch brook trout is legal. This fish was just under eight.

Although we caught another 5 or 6 more fish between us none were big enough to warrant keeping.

Although this single fish was all we brought home it was a great day of fishing. We fried the fish for breakfast and sampled the wonderful flavor of fresh brook trout.

The only thing that would have made it better would have been to cook it at the streams edge in the early morning with coffee brewing on the camp fire and a mist rising from the waters edge. Dandelions.

Circa 1958 a father and his young son on a fishing trip to New Hampshire catching trout and camping. A weekend trip that has lasted a lifetime. Dandelions.

Turkeys on the run.

Mrs. Shutterwi and I were leaving a stream we had been fishing on (see the post above) when just up the road three wild turkeys crossed from right to left and disappeared into a corn field. We both reached for the camera and I slowed the truck to try and locate the spot where they had cross.

With camera in hand I slowly drove along the edge of the corn field looking for any sign of the birds. I was just about to give up thinking they were long gone when the three birds, having reversed direction and increased their speed crossed right in front of the truck. All I could managed to get were three quick shots through the windshield.

My guess is they ran into the field and met up with some predator and quickly reversed direction. The whole scene was like something out of a carnival shooting gallery where the running target runs in one direction then quickly reverse direction and runs back from whence it came.

For me it was an opportunity to get a close up shot of what is a fairly new scene in northern Wisconsin. Wiid free ranging turkeys. My nephew the "turkey hunter" said they could run and he wasn't kidding. They can RUN!

A little color to brighten your day.