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We are Closed for the Season and reopen May 1st 2010 - Availability

Bob and Nathan high tailed it outta here yesterday!
Saying the riding is pretty much Toast with this heat wave...

Warm and Foggy... 

  

Ice huts have to be off the lake by April 1st, but I think they are going to want
them off by the end of the week!



I always like to look at Motels for sale across Canada.  Mainly to compare my rooms
to theirs in hopes of saying, "My rooms are WAY better than those!" lol 
I found this place for sale $1,800,000 but 
 thier website Www.Wiartonwillys.Com 
has only 6 Links, and one Link is just for "Rules" ???  lmao
(and yes my rooms are better than theirs. Hah!) 



Ontario boosted Minimum wage - 6.85 to 10.25 in 6 years?
They claim they want to get people out of Poverty.
Why not raise minimum wage to $25 an hour?  
That would get everyone out of Poverty, wouldn't it?  
lmao

..........and the downward spiral spins outta control.



I've emailed the Elected Officials in the Federal & Provincial Government
asking if they Condone, or worse yet, Encourage Cash-Strapped
Municipalities to add additional taxes onto Businesses
that are already charged the highest Tax Rates in Ontario.
I somehow believe they all have my Email address on Ignore. 

All I want is a YES or NO

My beef is not about our Tax rates.  Its TRUE we pay double
the taxes that businesses in Southern Ontario pay, and triple that of towns
like Massey.....

but I'm pissed  that double and triple the amounts aren't enough! 
They add on thousands more in "Tax Adjustments"
and try to justify them. 

They have TONS of Government Funding
to start new Businesses here???

"Lets LOOT the existing businesses to death, then give Grants to create new ones!
We'll be heros and call it "Stimulous" and "Job Creation!"" 

Is Northern Ontario being run by Dumb and Dumber? 



Here's a picture of the Harbour for WawaDave!






A life without shoveling and snow blowing every day is so sweet....... 
There's just so much time for other things! 



Soooo busy Renovating!!  No Change in snow, but the rooms are changing!

Our New triple Room set up should work so much nicer! 
We we mount our new 32" HD TV, with a swing arm so it can 
face the beds or the table.......  I'll take a new pic!






"Don't accept your dog's admiration as 
conclusive evidence that you are wonderful".
                                                             Ann Landers



We are busting butt renovating...... Check out our new room specifically
designed for 4 people.  How cute is the Dinette Set? 



I will have a newly designed Triple Room ready to photograph after this weekend! 

Middle of February Snow Gauge pics over the years.....



Oh, Polly hugging Snowball



It's Post Secret Day!  Should be good.... Valentines Day! 


Steven Allan sent this picture of a bear they spot on the highway to 
Dubreuilville every spring!  What a beaut! 



I was saying to John, "This is like April Snow!"  
But I was wrong...... we had way more snow last April!

 


Hey!  Look what's on Google Maps!!

Is there anything cuter than baby moose in a sprinkler???



Serious Weed found in Wawa!  Must be what they are smoking at 
the tax office.  Hahahaha  Sometimes I kill myself!

I just finished updating Rick Dickson's Bear Hunt Website, 
and the Awesome 2009 Summary with photos is now online!  

Feb 1st - the Budwiser case in 2005 was the 5th case placed on the gauge.
Look at last year.........  man we were buried!



Ya gotta love Motivational Posters! 



Oh my....  Tripadvisor came out with the Top 10 Worst Hotels in Canada, 


Trail closed due to Traffic Jam!!! 



Eric & Lynne have some cool pics from their Sled Trip around the Dube!
They found 4 moose sheds!!! 


The bottom case is showing, but the meltdown will be over tomorrow




Tripadvisor honoured us with a 2010 National Award!
How much does that ROCK??
Eric and Lynn's cool Bikes are on the Photo!!
Wow! A big Thanks to Tripadvisor, and to our Guests for all the great reviews!


This picture is cute.....  He's dining well tonight!  lol 


Funny one from my Dad.......  




Very Big Wolf prints around the back, and they went up to Badboy's house!  
One Wolf foolishly stuck his nose in Badboy's house, and Badboy got a piece of him!
Quite a bit of blood on the snow!  (I told you Badboy was mean.)

"Who me?" 



We are busy painting the rooms, ceilings, walls, bathrooms, new tub surrounds.....  
We are always busy busy busy!! And I HAD to make a new picture for the rooms!

 Foxy Brown Pics!! 
(had to show the one of Foxy beside the snow gauge)

 It looks so cute beside this one that I've had in the rooms for a few years



This is why people say.....
"Looking at all the stuff in your rooms is the 
2nd most fun I've had in a Motel room" lmao

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  Did you know that only the
 male Blue Jays don't fly south? 

January 6  We sold the RMK! 


My Brother Steve sent me this cool link Worldometers

Happy 18th Anniversary to Us! 



Olympic Torch Run Celebration in Wawa

Wawa Lake is frozen over

It's cold outside and the cat that showed up on our property last winter, looks like he wants to come in!! But he beats on all of our indoor cats..... hence the name...

Oh, I just found this picture of the Wild Goose Motel & Restaurant that is located 1 mile south of us. It's been closed for about 5 years now, and look how fast the trees take over!

Here's a cutie picture of Willy - smiling for the camera! Willy is the oldest of our sliders - 28 years!

My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I
kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a
nearby table.
My wife asked, 'Do you know her?'
'Yes,' I sighed, 'she's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since.'
'My God!' says my wife, 'Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?'

Our Motel is the first Canadian Accommodation to join the UP Cruising site! For all the Bikers doing the Circle Tour - we will honor the Biker Discount card!

I saw this Wildlife Detection System at the bottom of the Mile Hill on my return home. Pretty high tech!!

10 Years at the Northern Lights! We've come a long way! I made this sign for all of our Wonderful Guests that have given us great reviews & just keep on spreading the word about our place! You are what keeps us going!! Thank You!!

September 14th - went to Gargantua in Lake Superior Park for the first time.

Lots of rocks, I couldn't get into the water from here but noticed waaaaay down there was a sand beach!

Made it to the beach! Another spectacular place to swim in Lake Superior Park.

September 11th - Swimming at Old Woman Bay! What a great place to swim - a quick drop off. 3 steps off the shore and you are up to your neck.

Lots of nice stones.. I found one that looks just like an egg. Yes, it's in the hard boiled egg basket in the breakfast room now. lol!

Dave, a good friend from the 70's stopped in & I had to take him to our falls!

“You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."*

Remember this ridiculous chart? Yearly Property Taxes - Commercial Business Assessed at $300,000. Well Folks - IT GETS WORSE!

Marc Poulin drew a Caricature of us! It's going up in the Breakfast room! I LOVE it!

BRITTANY (age 4) had an ear ache and wanted a pain killer. She tried invain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a child-proof cap and she'd have to open it for her. Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: 'How does it know it's me?'

MELANIE (age 5) asked her Granny how old she was. Granny replied she was so old she didn't remember any more. Melanie said, 'If you don't emember you must look in the back of your panties. Mine say five to six.'

STEVEN (age 3) hugged and kissed his Mom good night. 'I love you somuch that when you die I'm going to bury you outside my bedroom window.'

SUSAN (age 4) was drinking juice when she got the hiccups. 'Please don't give me this juice again,' she said, 'It makes my teeth cough.'

TAMMY (age 4) was with her mother when they met an elderly, rather wrinkled woman her Mom knew. Tammy looked at her for a while and hen asked, 'Why doesn't your skin fit your face?'

During a Sunday sermon...'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms tended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust...' He would have continued but at that time a little girl asked in her shrill little four year old voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

This is so funny!! A fellow gave us this printout he got from Yahoo! Ummm.... our Motel doesn't look like THAT! And I can't fix it? What the?? (We are very relieved that our Motel doesn't look like that because John and I couldn't run it alone!) lol!

Our Bear, Albert, is so smart! He uses the culvert under the highway, to cross it. So cute. I followed him (I didn't take the culvert lol) and took this picture today.

Dear Abby,
A couple of women moved in across the hall from me. One is a middle-aged gym teacher and the other is a social worker in her mid twenties. These two women go everywhere together and I've never seen a man go into or leave their apartment. Do you think they could be Lebanese?

Dear Abby,
What can I do about all the sex, nudity, foul language and violence on my VCR?

Dear Abby,
I have a man I can't trust. He cheats so much, I'm not even sure the baby I'm carrying is his.

Dear Abby,
I am a twenty-three year old liberated woman who has been on the pill for two years. It's getting expensive and I think my boyfriend should share half the cost, but I don't know him well enough to discuss money with him.

Dear Abby,
I've suspected that my husband has been fooling around, and when confronted with the evidence, he denied everything and said it would never happen again.

Dear Abby,
Our son writes that he is taking Judo. Why would a boy who was raised in a good Christian home turn against his own?

Dear Abby,
I joined the Navy to see the world. I've seen it. Now how do I get out?

Dear Abby,
My forty year old son has been paying a psychiatrist $50.00 an hour every week for two and a half years. He must be crazy.

Dear Abby,
I was married to Bill for three months and I didn't know he drank until one night he came home sober.

Dear Abby,
My mother is mean and short tempered. I think she is going through mental pause.

Dear Abby,
You told some woman whose husband had lost all interest in sex to send him to a doctor. Well, my husband lost all interest in sex and he is a doctor. Now what do I do?

Two blonde girls were working for the city public works department. One
would dig a hole and the other would follow behind her and fill the hole
in.

They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved
on to the next street, working furiously all day without rest, one girl
digging a hole, the other girl filling it in again.

An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but couldn't understand what
they were doing. So he asked the hole digger, 'I'm impressed by the
effort you two are putting in to your work, but I don't get it -- why do
you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up
again?'

The hole digger wiped her brow and sighed, 'Well, I suppose it probably
looks odd because we're normally a three-person team. But today the
girl who plants the trees called in sick.'

Two reasons why it's so hard to solve a Redneck murder:
1) The DNA is all the same
2) There are no dental records

Lock your wife and your dog in the trunk of your car... then open it... who's the happiest to see you?"

We are certainly better off than we were last year when it comes to snow... But we still have a LOT to melt! Warm temps are ahead.

The Ontario Government has Increased minimum wage from $6.85 in 2004 to $9.50 tomorrow. It will be $10.25 in 2010, a 50 per cent increase since 2004

Yes another Page out of Atlas Shrugged!!

I took this photo today at Mamanaise Harbour - the ice mountains are awesome!

'I think beer must be good. My dad says the more beer he drinks the
prettier my mom gets.'
--Tim, 7 years old

'Beer makes my dad sleepy and we get to watch what we want on television
when he is asleep, so beer is nice. '
--Mellanie, 7 years old

'My Mom and Dad both like beer. My Mom gets funny when she drinks it and
takes her top off at parties, but Dad doesn't think this is very funny.'
--Grady , 7 years old

''My Mom and Dad talk funny when they drink beer and the more they drink
the more they give kisses to each other, which is a good thing.'
-- Toby, 7 years old

'My Dad gets funny on beer. He is funny. He also wets his pants
sometimes, so he shouldn't have too much.
--Sarah, 7 years old

'My Dad loves beer. The more he drinks, the better he dances. One time
he danced right into the pool.'
--Lilly, 7 years old

'I don't like beer very much. Every time Dad drinks it, he burns the
sausages on the barbecue and they taste disgusting.'
--Ethan, 7 years old

'I give Dad's beer to the dog and he goes to sleep.'
--Shirley, 7 years old

'My Mom drinks beer and she says silly things and picks on my father.
Whenever she drinks beer she yells at Dad and tells him to go bury his
bone down the street again, but that doesn't make any sense..'
--Jack, 7 years old

Too funny! Steve sent me the Best Scarf of 2009!

A Newfoundlander is driving down a back road in St. Johns.
A sign in front of a restaurant reads:

HAPPY HOUR SPECIAL

Lobster Tail and Beer

'Lord tunderin' jaysus' he says to himself, 'me 3 favourite tings!'

Fox prints EVERYWHERE! Jan 30 - The Snow Gauge is buried!

GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING

NOT

SWALLOW

CHEWING - GUM!!

A good one from Mark Taylor -

A Husband and wife are shopping in their local Wal-Mart.

The husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their cart.

'What do you think you're doing?' asks the wife.

'They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans,' he replies.

'Put them back, we can't afford them,' demands the wife, and so they carry on shopping.

A few aisles further on along the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the basket.

'What do you think you're doing?' asks the husband.

'Its my face cream. It makes me look beautiful,' replies the wife.

Her husband retorts: 'So does 24 cans of Budweiser and it's half the price.'

On the PA system:"'Cleanup needed on aisle 25, we have a husband down."

The 2008 Darwin Awards

Yes, it's that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.

Here is the glorious winner:

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

Honorable mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change.
When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer .. . . $15.

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, 'Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from.'

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake.
The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

Here's a couple more cute pics I took of our new Pet.... It's hard to take close ups because he sniffs the camera.

4th night in a row, Foxy Brown came for some chow. He wasn't too thrilled to eat inside. But at least I was warm!!

Wow! The Alberta Clipper Snowed us In! Reminds me of that song.... "What a difference a day Makes..."

The wife has been on my case to get the Christmas lights up for a couple of weeks. They are up now and for some reason she will not talk to me.

My husband, being unhappy with my mood swings,
bought me a mood ring the
other day so he would be able to monitor my moods.

We've discovered that when I'm in a good
mood... it turns green. When I'm in
a bad mood.... it leaves a big freekin' red
mark on his forehead.

Taxed to DEATH outside of Wawa! I guess it's called "Survival Tax", ($26,000 a year and we are closed for 1/2 of it?) since my neighbours below aren't paying anymore. (They were all open and thriving businesses when we bought our place.)

Since we purchased the Motel in 1999, at least 40 Businesses have shut down in Wawa. Meanwhile they are taxing us at quadruple the rates of Canadian Hotels?