If it does, it doesn’t stick around all winter.

Someone dubbed these “ranger stations with chef’s hats”. I like that fanciful description but obviously they are outhouses. If you camp at Tahquamenon in the winter, outhouses are what you get. I don’t think these are in a campground though. Lizard and the Twinz of Terror stayed in a motel with showers and flushy terlets on this trip.

The topic of a recent conversation asked why Ohio’s state parks keep their “facilities” open all winter. Facilities meaning warm buildings with sinks, toilets, and showers. My answer? Because Ohio is just far enough south from Michigan that they don’t deal with anywhere near the winter weather conditions we do.

The Planet Ann Arbor occasionally gets blizzards but we don’t get them with anywhere near the frequency the yooperland gets them or even the northern lower peninsula. We are way south and not a frequent target of “lake effect” snow. I shoveled a sniggly inch or so of snow this morning. Facebook friends of mine in Sault Ste. Siberia are drowning in snow. Some of them are having more “fun” with it than others. Shoveling big mountains of snow is less fun than grooming snowmobile trails with a big musheen. I’m sure there is a whole array of yooperland snow experiences. Those are the ones I saw on facebook.

We have the super bowl on. For a while we really really wanted the Li-ons to win or even get *to* the super bowl. It didn’t happen. We should’ve known it wouldn’t. I think we *did* know it wouldn’t. As usual, the game is on but I’m not watching it although I am enjoying the ambience of football on TV. This is kinda the last football until next fall. I don’t care who wins and I’m not watching the commercials.

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