Our Small Windows of Happiness! paradise home property

[luckydog]

Yumm!!!!!

Hamburger

[logicprobe]

YIPE!!!

You don't EAT them kind... you MILK them.

(And anyone that thinks that cows "give" milk, has never tried milking one. They don't GIVE anything... you gotta FIGHT for it)

[hanabi]

oh lovely lovely lovely pictures!

Sunsets appeal to the Dreamer in me!!!

[slothappy144]

Black angus is good eating! We buy 1 side a year. Cheaper and from a local guy, no mad cow or other disease. No steroids or other junk either.

[birdbrain]

just took this 5 mins ago. the hanger is 2 miles inland from here.

[slotter]

Spring is in the air and I was busy today mowing for the first time this year here in NW Iowa. What a beautiful day and a good time to give this thread a boost and bump!

[luckydog]

Thanks for the pictures

I see you have a little more grass than Arby does

[johntofva]

Very nice lawn, but were are the sheep?

[dattia]

Those pictures are beautiful...thanks for putting them up

[Chrisdice]

Nice lawn. Thanks for the pix. I wish mine was that green. I have 50%weeds 25%grass and 25% dirt. Its a work in progress.:lol:

[logicprobe]

Nice!
Thanks for sharing that.
One can tell you take great pride in your place there, Slotter!

[H20Dreams]

Thanks for the photos... thank goddness I do not have to mow that lawn!

[sparks911]

1st Pic is a double Rainbow out over Lake Superior!
2nd Pic is the Paul A. Tregurtha entering the Duluth Harbor!
Built in 1981 1013 ft long Flag:USA Cargo: Coal
The Paul Tregurtha is almost a football field longer than the IDS Building is high. She is a self-unloader with 36 hatches on deck that open into 5 cargo compartments. She has a maximum carrying capacity of 67,500 tons.
3rd pic is the Paul A. Tregurtha going under the only bridge of it's kind in the world, the Aerial Lift Bridge! Into the St. Louis Bay and onto Midwest Energy to load coal! Just 1 of a few 1000+ footers that come into port here! This pic gives you an idea of how large these ships are....look at the tiny people!
4th pic is a better view of the Aerial Lift Bridge. The Great Lakes largest and furthest inland port--Duluth-Superior.
5th pic is of the ice pack 3/9/07.....the 4 ships to the left are stuck in the ice, the 1 departing is trying to make it thru....our brand new Coast Guard Cutter/Icebreaker the Alder is already broken....the cutter Biscayne Bay is dispatched from St. Ignace, MI. takes 3 days to get here!
6th pic is a Duluth Air National Guard F-16 patrolling over the port and the city!
Click this link to see and hear a cool VIDEO of the 1000' Walter J. McCarthy Jr. ship entering the ship canal and going under the Aerial Lift Bridge!

[slothappy144]

Sparks you brought back some memories here, We watch all these boats traveling up the river on their way tword your port. A few river pilots stationed in our villiage lived in Duluth. Eve hear of a bar called Captain Cliff's nite club? We knew Captain Clifford for years, RIP capt'n.

[sailorpatp]

1st Pic is a double Rainbow out over Lake Superior!
2nd Pic is the Paul A. Tregurtha entering the Duluth Harbor!
Built in 1981 1013 ft long Flag:USA Cargo: Coal
The Paul Tregurtha is almost a football field longer than the IDS Building is high. She is a self-unloader with 36 hatches on deck that open into 5 cargo compartments. She has a maximum carrying capacity of 67,500 tons.
3rd pic is the Paul A. Tregurtha going under the only bridge of it's kind in the world, the Aerial Lift Bridge! Into the St. Louis Bay and onto Midwest Energy to load coal! Just 1 of a few 1000+ footers that come into port here! This pic gives you an idea of how large these ships are....look at the tiny people!
4th pic is a better view of the Aerial Lift Bridge. The Great Lakes largest and furthest inland port--Duluth-Superior.
5th pic is of the ice pack 3/9/07.....the 4 ships to the left are stuck in the ice, the 1 departing is trying to make it thru....our brand new Coast Guard Cutter/Icebreaker the Alder is already broken....the cutter Biscayne Bay is dispatched from St. Ignace, MI. takes 3 days to get here!
6th pic is a Duluth Air National Guard F-16 patrolling over the port and the city!
Click this link to see and hear a cool VIDEO of the 1000' Walter J. McCarthy Jr. ship entering the ship canal and going under the Aerial Lift Bridge!

I always liked Duluth.
I look at it from a different perspective though.

And the snow and ice....I see that a little differently too.


It is too bad that they retired the Mighty Mac.....She was a great Ice breaker.

[sparks911]

Sparks you brought back some memories here, We watch all these boats traveling up the river on their way tword your port. A few river pilots stationed in our villiage lived in Duluth. Eve hear of a bar called Captain Cliff's nite club? We knew Captain Clifford for years, RIP capt'n.

I have heard of Captain Cliffs along time ago, but i can't remember were it was located? I think it was in Superior? I could be wrong! It's not here or changed names now!

sailorpatp: I take it you must have been or still are a captain or sailor aboard 1 of the mighty ships that visit here?
I would love the chance to sail aboard any 1 of the ships that visit here each year! That would be a once in a lifetime opportunity! The view must be awesome from that perspective! Thanks for the pics!
The Lake Superior Marine Museum Association has a Ship trip raffle every year “Cruise of A Lifetime” Drawing on the 1,000-foot freighter EDWIN H. GOTT!
I never win!
Also check out this site: Duluth Shipping News.
This site also: Duluth Seaway Port Authority.
The Vlieborg Ship (Delfzijl, Netherlands) incident 8/24/2005!
Sailboat meets bridge, bridge wins!
Federal Fraser (Panama) runs aground 8/29/2002!

The storm pictures below were taken during a North Atlantic storm February, 13, 1987 on an eastbound passage from Tampa, Florida to Ghent, Belgium with a load of phosphates. The pictures were taken by Capt. George Ianiev, who was the ship's Second Mate at the time. The big blue wave was the largest wave the ship encountered during the storm; seeing it hit the ship made the vessel's master question whether they would survive the storm.
Makes me want to throw up just looking at them!

[johntofva]

Heck.....That is no ship, that is a submarine.

[H20Dreams]

Makes me sea sick just looking at those!

[dattia]

WOW! That pic is incredible... I wonder if Capt. George Ianiev retired after that trip

[Youngjedi]

That Lawn looks great Slotter. Let's have the next convention at your place...we could play Croquet..it would be like playing pachinko in the grass.