Good Monday Morning Everyone!
Later than usual... Hope you got a few extra winks too!
Miss Punk and I took a ride the other day down to Suamico. Checking on a few places that I remember as a youth to have gone swimming, (or other things that the youth of the early 1970's did)...
Back then, we had quite a lot of places to go...
One of those places was Long Tail beach. Another was Little Tail. We would have spent days there, if allowed to; swimming when the weather was awful hot and muggy. (Kind of like our weather today. It is to be 87, and very muggy)! ~ugh...
But now, the water in the Bay of Green Bay is so shallow. Down 3+ feet from a decade ago...
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Hard to tell just by peeking through the overgrowth though...
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The sandbars were never visible in my youth...
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Pretty still; just no swimming holes left...
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On the way there, I actually had to turn around to be able to get this picture...
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Look in the upper right hand corner of the tree.
There is a paper wasp nest, hanging over the road...
HUGE!
...It had to be, at the very least, an entire 12"-15" (+) across...
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The many geese and ducks had Miss Punk a bit worried;
(and me too... for them)! hehehe
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We are about 3 weeks early to see all of the birds and such congregating at Barkhausen; and getting ready for the winter... ~But it is high time for all of us people to be making sure that our own bird feeders are ready for winter; and that we have ample supplies to be feeding them too. Hehehe, if your houseguests might be of the mousie variety, (like mine), please just get a rubbermaid container to store your birdseed in. (Those work great for storing dog food and cat food too)!
Driving back through Suamico is the old fish market.
You can tell it was there even before the widened county road came along... Within inches of the road.
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Suamico Fish Company!
Yes, that IS an old Greyhound Bus sign on the front of the building!
I believe this was it's stop before Vickerys General Store was made the main stop.
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The picture at the top of the page is the old boathouse... (This is the same river that flows through the woods here).
Glad we took this little ride near to sunset too. It was cooler than the 73 degrees I have now. And since I didn't get much done on Saturday, I will be finishing the lawns today.
Most of my beasties seem to have relocated, or croaked. (I can only hope they have also laid that big man down from Oshkosh for a few days too. He was such a jerk)! Yes, yes, settle down; I will say an extra prayer for my unchristian thought... hehehe
Have a wunnaful Monday!
XOXO
Anne
Bird Migration CLICK
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Are you too young to remember THIS funny song???
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"Tennessee Bird Walk"
Take away the trees and the birds'll have to sit upon the ground. (Hum)
Take away their wings and the birds'll have to walk to get around.
Take away the birdbaths and dirty birds will soon be everywhere.
Take away their feathers and the birds will walk around in underwear.
Take away their (whistle) and the birds'll have to whisper when they sing. (Chirp chirp!)
Take away their common sense and they'll be heading southward in the spring.
Oh, remember me, my darling when spring is in the air, And the bald headed birds are whispering everywhere. When you see them walking southward in their dirty underwear, That's the Tennessee Bird Walk.
How about some trees so the birds won't have to sit upon the ground? (Hum)
And how about some wings so the birds won't have to walk to get around?
And how about a birdbath or two so the birds will all be clean?
And how about some feathers so their underwear no longer will be seen?
How about a little (whistle) so the birds won't have to whisper when they sing? (Chirp chirp!)
And how about some common sense, So they won't be blocking traffic in the spring?
Oh, remember me, my darling when spring is in the air And the bald headed birds are whispering everywhere When you see them walking southward in their dirty underwear That's the Tennessee Bird Walk (Chirp chirp!)
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Words and music copyright © 2002© Jack Blanchard Bird Avenue Music ® (BMI) All Rights Reserved
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