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[New World Explorer]

4 hours ago, hatcheckgirl said:

Very pretty Ross   I've never seen snow....

Watch Disney's "Frozen' it will help     

[Friends just call me Ross]

18 hours ago, hatcheckgirl said:

Very pretty Ross   I've never seen snow....

I've seen more snow than I care to.    <---Doesn't that look like a rubber chicken?

We got another six inches after this these pictures were taken.

I am soooooooo tired of shoveling out my bird feeders. 

The snow was so heavy and sticky and slushy wet, I had to whack my shovel after 

every scoop full.  Spent more time emptying my shovel than filling it. 

 

Great snow for making snowballs and snowmen, though.

 

 

[CHecker]

Ross, I'm sorry to hear about your snow  storm. Our weather is so wacky, here it was over 75 F, over 24 to you Celsius people. This is only the first of April! We're in the cool and damp Pacific NW! Amazing weather. Wacky. But that said I have to say I'm happy to see the peas up in the garden and the spuds are doing fantastic, at least 9 inches high.

[Friends just call me Ross]

16 minutes ago, bagwell1987 said:

Ross, I'm sorry to hear about your snow  storm. Our weather is so wacky, here it was over 75 F, over 24 to you Celsius people. This is only the first of April! We're in the cool and damp Pacific NW! Amazing weather. Wacky. But that said I have to say I'm happy to see the peas up in the garden and the spuds are doing fantastic, at least 9 inches high.

Great to hear that your garden is doing so well, Cheryl!  

Isn't it a kick, getting up each day and hurrying out to see how much taller the plants have gotten while you slept?

 

[pnutts]

8 hours ago, bagwell1987 said:

Ross, I'm sorry to hear about your snow  storm. Our weather is so wacky, here it was over 75 F, over 24 to you Celsius people.

Ross is in upper Michigan and the last time I looked was part of the state of Michigan in the U.S. which uses standard measurements ( US version not the British  ) 

Talk about Americans not knowing their own country , just as stated in the news lately.

 

Only thing worse is Quebec thinking they are a separate nation from Canada.

[kejedo]

Dear Sister Ross, we have a new Bethelite from Michigan and I asked him about the upper peninsula. I am watching for a TV show on the same subject, travel channel, I think. What an amazingly fascinating earth Jehovah has created.

[Friends just call me Ross]

4 hours ago, kejedo said:

Dear Sister Ross, we have a new Bethelite from Michigan and I asked him about the upper peninsula. I am watching for a TV show on the same subject, travel channel, I think. What an amazingly fascinating earth Jehovah has created.

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA is known for its Great Lakes' shorelines,

 

 

pristine wilderness areas, 

 

and its many scenic waterfalls.

 

I live right smack dab between two of the Great Lakes: Superior and Michigan,

I'm east of the Ottawa National Forest and just a few miles west of the Hiawatha National Forest.  

 

The Escanaba River State Forest nearly borders our farm.  

 

The Sylvania National Wilderness area is west of me and the Rock River National Wilderness area is just 12 miles due north of me.

All manner of wildlife visit our farm.  Most any night you can go outside and hears wolves howling or coyotes yapping. 

We also have two mountain ranges: The Huron and The Porcupine.

We have a lot of different terrain and sites to see here.

You are so right!  Jehovah has, indeed, created a fascinating earthly home for us humans.

[CHecker]

15 hours ago, Friends just call me Ross said:

Great to hear that your garden is doing so well, Cheryl!  

Isn't it a kick, getting up each day and hurrying out to see how much taller the plants have gotten while you slept?

 

You know it. I was just out there strolling around, much cooler today, almost too cool, and the beets I planted and let winter over are growing again, maybe I'll get something from them in a while. And the artichokes are doubled in size- yay! I'm excited to see how many I get this year.

[CHecker]

7 hours ago, pnutts said:

Ross is in upper Michigan and the last time I looked was part of the state of Michigan in the U.S. which uses standard measurements ( US version not the British  ) 

Talk about Americans not knowing their own country , just as stated in the news lately.

 

Only thing worse is Quebec thinking they are a separate nation from Canada.

I only said that Peter because when those that say what temp they are having in Celsius I have to go look up what that means in Fahrenheit. Trying to make life simple since this is indeed an international site.  

[Friends just call me Ross]

Lake of the Clouds is located in the Porcupine Mountains:

 

The highest point in the entire state of Michigan is located in the Huron Mountains:

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Mount Arvon, elevation 1,979 feet (603 m), located in L'Anse Township, Baraga County, is the highest natural point in the U.S. state of Michigan.

View of Lake Superior from Mount Arvon:

 

[CHecker]

That's an amazing place. What's the average temp in summer and winter where you are?

 

Have to admit I'm fascinated by lake Superior. 

Edited April 8, 2016 by bagwell1987

[hatcheckgirl]

Jaw-droppingly beautiful Ross!!!!

Would think you have your Paradise right there - all you need is a bit less cold and snow

 

[hatcheckgirl]

 

There is a story to go with this pic:  http://www.lovemeow.com/abandoned-kitten-1713058591.html

[Friends just call me Ross]

2 hours ago, bagwell1987 said:

That's an amazing place. What's the average temp in summer and winter where you are?

 

Have to admit I'm fascinated by lake Superior. 

 

Here's a chart:

 

Notice the lowest temps in the summer months.  We have been known to get snow here in the summertime.

Which is why the Yooper joke:  

"We get nine months of winter and three months of bad snowmobiling,"

isn't all that funny to us natives.

 

We consider Superior to be our inland 'ocean'. 

 

[Friends just call me Ross]

1 hour ago, hatcheckgirl said:

Jaw-droppingly beautiful Ross!!!!

Would think you have your Paradise right there - all you need is a bit less cold and snow

 

The Upper Peninsula is often called 'God's Country'. 

Less cold and less snow works for me. 

 

Northern Michigan's rocky coast, shown here is a Presque Isle cove, has long beckoned as a summer playground.

The picturesque region, wrote American naturalist Edwin Way Teale, is "a land of wonderful wilderness." (Scott S. Warren)


 

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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-wonderful-wilderness-of-michigans-upper-peninsula-1803122/?no-ist

The Wonderful Wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Immortalized by Longfellow, the Midwest's preferred vacation spot offers unspoiled forests, waterfalls and coastal villages

 

[Friends just call me Ross]

 

2 hours ago, hatcheckgirl said:

There is a story to go with this pic:  http://www.lovemeow.com/abandoned-kitten-1713058591.html

I just love happy endings!

Thanks for sharing such a heart-warming story, Lucy! 

[CHecker]

Wonderful to learn about your place in this world. More winter than I'd like. But it's so beautiful. Thanks!

[Alexa]

On 2/15/2016 at 6:34 AM, GrumpysWife said:

 

On 2/16/2016 at 3:39 PM, jayrtom said:

Hey... They are... I'm sorry

[Qapla]

I have never fully understood just why the UP is part of Michigan and not Wisconsin. When you see it on the map you can really understand how it can be said to be "400 miles north of everywhere", especially when talking about Moose County

[Friends just call me Ross]

On 4/8/2016 at 8:30 AM, pnutts said:

Ross is in upper Michigan and the last time I looked was part of the state of Michigan in the U.S. which uses standard measurements ( US version not the British  ) 

Talk about Americans not knowing their own country , just as stated in the news lately.

 

Only thing worse is Quebec thinking they are a separate nation from Canada.

The Upper Peninsula is frequently missing from maps of the USA:

https://yoopersteez.com/post/another-map-missing-the-upper-peninsula

 

 

 

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The Upper Peninsula, mostly rural, is known for camping, hiking, hunting, boating and seeing waterfalls. But with their home territory likely a mystery to people outside Michigan or Wisconsin, Yoopers are sensitive about being overlooked.

Last year, some high school students from Escanaba wrote to a textbook publisher after a map in a history book appeared to exclude the U.P. from the borders of the United States. The map colored the U.P. white — like the void surrounding the country — while the rest of Michigan was shaded light blue. The map identified states by their postal codes; the U.P. was designated "IL," for Illinois — which had no label.

Other maps have shown the U.P. as part of Wisconsin or Canada.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-07-21-michigan-maps_N.htm

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/wheres_the_up_map_on_white_hou.html

 

Someone in the U.P. remedied the exclusion by creating a map where the Upper Peninsula is the size of the united states

and the u.s. is the size of the U.P..  I tried to Google a photo of it but couldn't find it anywhere.  It's pretty funny.

 

Others in the U.P. feel that, as long as we aren't included on the map, we may as well secede.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_(proposed_U.S._state)

 

[Friends just call me Ross]

On 4/9/2016 at 10:45 AM, Qapla said:

I have never fully understood just why the UP is part of Michigan and not Wisconsin. When you see it on the map you can really understand how it can be said to be "400 miles north of everywhere", especially when talking about Moose County

https://yoopersteez.com/post/why-the-upper-peninsula-is-not-part-of-wisconsin

 

Seems it has something to do with losing the Toledo War?  

Holy Toledo!

[CHecker]

That was fascinating Ross!

[Friends just call me Ross]

13 minutes ago, bagwell1987 said:

That was fascinating Ross!

Yeah.  Now, if the subject ever comes up on Jeopardy, we're set.   

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This sounds like taxation without representation . Do you have border checks to visit the good old US of A?

[CHecker]