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Wawa Motel Accommodations free breakfast chalets bed & Breakfast motel and breakfast Mo's Snow Cam 2009 & 2008 Email me Whooooooo! September 1st! The two of us made it through another fantastic summer!! Let the countdown begin.... 52 more days! I will have to start photographing the colours soon. Dad's golf cart made working this property so much easier this year!! Check out the Box that was used as a scratching post by all of our very bad cats. lol
The new Ontario HST Tax Grab came into effect July 1st. Sometime this year, we Ontario taxpayers will receive an ' HST Compensation'' payment. This is indeed a very exciting program,
and I'll explain it by using a Q & A format: A. It is money that the provincial
government will send to taxpayers. Another hotel in Northern Ontario closes it's doors. Karina Hunter has the full story on www.OntarioNewsNorth.com Hughes Pelletier, checked in with a Skate Board and a Backpack, on his way to Montreal. We assumed he was hitchiking, but after he refused a ride to the Soo, he explained that he was Skateboarding & had to do it on his own.
Eric and Lynne, the mean bikers, made it up for a visit!
Too funny! For Father's Day, the Pirate got breakfast in bed!
Joel's workers sure made us laugh with their creativity! Checkout "Sandy Beach" and their little carved duck! Love the picinic basket with kisses)
Mom took this picture of Lake Huron - the rocks on the right used to be the shoreline!
Photo of my new Billboard Funny one from Rob ~ A dwarf, who was a mystic, escaped from jail. The call went out that there was a small medium at large. Andy, PJ and Eric - on their way to Calgary! Have fun guys! And thanks for the beer! Whoooooooooooooooo!
Jeff and the gang had a hot week of fishing!
Jeff LOVES fishing! Check out his cool tattoos!!
Yah! That's more like it!!
Oh My...... Wayne sent this story..... I had to give it it's own page!! Hilarious! A nice review from Tim on Drivecanada.blogspot But the photo of the motel was from last week with the old paint job. The place looks much better now! New photos coming..... Ohhh........ a little baby moose downtown Calgary
Check out my new Convertible! It holds 3 laundry baskets! Whooooo! Thanks Dad!
The renovated rooms and Breakfast Room are a huge hit!
Hornepanye Hotel is Closed - Looks like the Superior Snow Loop is a thing of the past? Toooooo Funny! More "Nightmare Hotels" on Tripadvisor. One in Greece someone wrote what they Liked about it "Leaving", and what they disliked "The time between check in and departure." Put the Billboards up!
Marilyne and Ian at our Waterfalls - Thanks so much for all your help! Woooooooo! 600 Feet of Fascia is up, and we have a new garden!
They found the cause of the Earthquakes! Update on Center Inn Northern Ontario's Commercial Crisis Snowballs , while they continue to charge Existing Businesses the highest tax & hydro rates in North America, and claim to be heroes by offering millions in Government Programs?? Calling it "Stimulus and Job Creation???" How many more small towns will lose their only Hotels? Manitouwadge, Smooth Rock Falls, next... Hornpayne? How about Iron Bridge? All the motels are closed......
Ken Reece was in Arizona taking some awesome shots of a slot Canyon! Check out his website for more pics!
Snow snow snow..... I won't complain though, look at last April!
A nice wolf on the property this AM....... too bad I couldn't get a better picture before he ran off into the forest! He had a gorgeous face!
Just ordered 10 new Televisions for the room. $100 added onto the Bill - TV TAX! Seriously? TV TAX? Look at the gorgeous Glass
Award Tripadvisor gave us!
lol! When looking for their
wedding announcement in the newspaper, the husband noticed the
names under the photos were switched with another couple
Marty and Gundi, friends
of ours in Farmington Hills, Michigan, have their website
March 15th Snow Gauges - amazing!
SNOWMOBILE
TRAILS ARE CLOSED - MARCH 13
Wow - look at last year's snow! That was insane....
The Best Card Trick Ever - James Galea 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...
Wow! Time to start shoveling!
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!
The Cops are always kept busy in this "Wild Town of Wawa"
December 1st Snow Gauges over the years
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
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!! Ken Reece took some gorgeous colour pics in Michigan!
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!!
Martin, Thelma, Pam and Ben were here and visited Potholes Provincial Park. Check out the gorgeous pictures! "Sure wish someone would invent something to keep the sun out of my eyes."
September 14th - went to Gargantua in Lake Superior Park for the first time.
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.
Summer is HERE!! Off to Bathtub Island! Whoooooooo
September 7th Dave, a good friend from the 70's stopped in & I had to take him to our falls!
And to Sandy beach..... too cold for swimming though..
Oh how true!! *Adrian Rogers, 1931* “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!
Charicatures - Send Marc an Email! Some more cute ones - 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.' DJ (age 4) stepped onto the bathroom scale and asked: 'How much do I cost?' 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?' Ken Reece just got back from California! More amazing photography!!! 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.
Hah! Marty sent some good "Dear Abby Letters" DEAR ABBY ADMITTED SHE WAS AT A LOSS TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING:
****************************** Two blonde girls were working for the city
public works department. One They worked up one side of the street, then
down the other, then moved An onlooker was amazed at their hard work,
but couldn't understand what The hole digger wiped her brow and sighed,
'Well, I suppose it probably **************** lol - some good ones from Todd Two reasons why it's so hard to solve a
Redneck murder: ***************** Hah! A good one from Marilyne!! How do you know a dog is a man's best friend? Lock your wife and your dog in the trunk of your car... then open it... who's the happiest to see you?"
The snow has dropped a little since the middle of March...
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.
And as the downward spiral continues and more Businesses Close...... 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
I took this photo today at Mamanaise Harbour - the ice mountains are awesome!
A handful of 7 year old children were asked 'What they thought of beer'. Some interesting responses, but the last one is especially
touching. 'I think beer must be good. My dad says the more beer he
drinks the Hah Vince! I love it!
Too funny! Steve sent me the Best Scarf of 2009!
A Newfoundlander
is driving down a back road in St. Johns. HAPPY HOUR SPECIAL
Lobster Tail and Beer
'Lord tunderin' jaysus' he says to himself, 'me 3 favourite tings!'
GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING DO 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. 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.
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.
Dec 23 - The Colorado Low is smackin us!
I bought some doggie treats today....
4 Cases Buried and it's not even Winter? Incredible!
We have a cute brave visitor today!!
Check out some gorgeous Aerial Photos of Michigan
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.
Menopause Jewellery My husband, being unhappy with my mood swings, We've discovered that when I'm in a good Maybe next time he'll buy me a diamond... Dumb ass.
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? Hmmm........... I suspect we are "Getting Goosed"
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But
get this, he walked from Vancouver to Lethbridge. Then Rollerbladed
from Lethbridge to Winnipeg. Traded in the blades for a
skateboard....... and is on his way to Montreal! Amazing!
When I was his age, I wouldn't even walk to the bar! lol
For 10 years, we had "9 Minutes Ahead" on this billboard.
But there was a time warp past the turn off to Wawa, and people
turned around and went back to Wawa? So we'll try an address &
mileage instead....... 
I had to block off the entrances! Usually the snowbanks
keep everyone out till we open. (Bathroom traffic is an
issue when we don't have water.) 
Here's a picture of the Harbour for WawaDave!
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as
conclusive evidence that you are wonderful".
Ann Landers
Middle of February Snow Gauge pics over the years.....
Steven Allan sent this picture of a bear they spot on the highway to
Dubreuilville every spring! What a beaut!
Is there anything cuter than 
Ya gotta love Motivational Posters!
Oh my.... Tripadvisor came out with the 
Eric & Lynne have some 
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?" 
January 6 
We sold the RMK!
My Brother Steve sent me this cool link 
2008 
Polly is telling Badboy that he's staying outside all winter
Badboy 
Dec 5
Rain
Rain Rain....... Yes Vince, it was too early!
Lots of rocks, I couldn't get into the water from here but
noticed waaaaay down there was a sand beach! 
Here's John almost at the beach
Made it to the beach! Another spectacular place to swim in
Lake Superior Park.
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! 
Yes, that's me swimming! The water was gorgeous!
Hey look! 80's hair! Some things never change...
lol! 
How do you like my beautiful 24 foot sign? 
It's raining
Fox prints EVERYWHERE! 
Jan 30 - The Snow Gauge is buried!
Foxy loves his Beggin Strips!
My buddy wants to help shovel the roof!
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!!
he can't get enough! 
lol! Not really a "Bad"
logo - more of a clever one!
Disturbed Art - gotta love it!
We buried the Blue!