Thanks to Rebecca Jennings, we're able to take a virtual walk on the beach. Now don't ask me where this lovely stretch of beachsand lies, but if you look closely there's a hint for those that might recognize the distinct lighthouse-like tower. The patterns in the sand, the water rolling in, the solitude on the beach.....soon the Keweenaw will be warming up and beaches such as this will have more than just Rebecca and her Kodak on its shores.

Only 44 days until the big event in Calumet - a celebration of the U.P.'s favorite food!

Good Morning from under 3 inches of water here in western Wayne county.

Good Morning from St. Clair Shores, MI

Good morning from San Jose. That water looks sooooooooooo cold!

Good morning from East Houghton. Would that be Bete Gris??

Ever notice how many trolls cannot pronounce the word "pasty?"

to Jiggs in California: I don't remember more about Lydia, but the chair and dress were huge, so she must have been very obese. There was a smiling picture of her as well, and she looked happy. Maybe Ken and Mimi from da UP would know.

Is the beach Bete Gris?

Good Morning from Richmond Michigan.
Good point Bob. I am always correcting people on how to pronounce pasty. Very annoying when it is our state food! Have a wonderful weekend to all!!!

Isn't that a "fantasy house"? Lighthouse-style on the beach of Superior. It will have us pasty-fans dreaming all day. It would sure be hard to leave home and go to work if you lived there.

That looks like 5-mile point. You are looking at it from the other side - meaning you are not looking at as if you came from Eagle River, but as if you are coming thru Ahmeek.

Now, that I look at it again....It might be Bete Gris too. But, I thought the sands were whiter in Bete Gris. Maybe the 1.8 billion gallons of sewer/drain run off that Milwaukee released into Lake Michigan this week made it to da Keweenasw already. :)

Tomorrow I'll be home in the U.P. working
hard to open and spruce up the cottage, eat
pasties and lake trout and breathe the air in
God's country. Hooray! Only for the Victoria
Day weekend, but then we'll be back in
August. I can hardly wait!

Morning from Amarillo--Windy here today.

If the sands didn't slope toward the water there wouldn't be any lake! We must be a little sleepy today!

Looks awfully familiar to me. I believe I went right by that area yesterday, I think this photo I took is not too far from the beach pictured above...

That is definately Big Taverse. It's facing SW'ly
not too far from the road to Rice Lake.

our favorite beach--big traverse. 10 miles from lake linden. 3 miles past rice lake.

Look at Sharon Smiths' cam 7:18 picture. It's either a big bird or a UFO.

Gotta love the pic of Big Traverse, right across the street from Mom and Dad's place, Fuzzy and Marilyn Waara

Fire Engine
The Daily Mining Gazette carried a story, yesterday, about an old steam fire engine that may return to its original home in Laurium. I would be interested in seeing an "old time shoebox" picture(s) of the fire engine. Does anyone have a picture? Pictures of any of the old steam fire engines in the Copper Country would be welcome. TIA.

Good morning from Crown Point Indiana

Big Traverse looking toward Louis Point.

Morning everyone, I just downloaded a bunch of new pics from my trip yesterday along the shore from Rice Lake to Big Traverse and Gay. Thought it might bring back some memories to some of you guys out there..
FFFOOORRREEE!!!


Here's the link

Thanks "camwatcher" As you go down the old "Mink Farm Road"- there is a small beach, rightbefore the park, and yes, there is a lighthouse-like-house, closer to the park. For those of you who guessed Lake Superiour, you are correct!!

Lydia may have been Big Lydia who I think is listed in Calumet Copper Country Metropolis book.
I borrowed my copy out but the last name was something like Wiideman, changed from Wetalinen?

Thanks. Sounds like a different Lydia

Hey Bob F., it seems to me trolls have more trouble pronouncing sauna than pasty! I spent 4 years at MSU trying to get my classmates to say "sauna" correctly!! ha ha!

Dave, Luarium, great pictures! It really gives you a feel for the beauty of that side of the Keweenaw.

I mean Laurium.

beautiful pics Dave

Also, beautiful pics Rebecca. Nice album

Beautiful album Rebecca. Really enjoyed it. You are very talented.

Thank you for a beautiful picture--I can smell the water and the wet sand and feel the air on my skin.

Missing Michigan!

Bthecute1 -
The water IS sooooo cold!! I jumped in last week and decided swimming can wait til summer!

Awesome pictures!

GOOD MORNING FELLOW YOOPERS FROM PORTLAMD OR

MORNING Y'ALL from Warm and Sunny Houston!!!

36 days till I'll be back in the HOMELAND! :)

Big traverse, looking south .

What's Pasty Fest? Never heard of this before!

Nothing better than an early morning walk along the Big Lake .... or maybe an afternoon walk .... or even an early evening walk!

If you pronounce "pasty" wrong doesn't it mean something else?

I thought it was like this "Pa stee?" (Pa like as in your Pa/Dad) Am I close?

Pass-tee....

Hi all,
Is this the first Pasty Fest and where exactly is Agasszi park?

Actually the correct pronunciation for Pasty is: "Pass tee".

Do we have to throw in allowances for accents? Like pass-tee might sound a little different in other parts of the country. We're talking the kings english here right?

Ahhh, Ok, I was close! :) Pass Tee it is! :)

Now, if I can just get Sauna with that Finnish sound to it like my Dad! :)

Sauna...same routine: Finnish Sauna pronunciation.
The second is the correct Finnish sound.

Ahh, the greatly cherished pasty-also known as the "Gut Bomb" in several local circles.

Shelly/Yankee in Texas:
Sow-Na..... as opposed to non-yoopers who say
saw-na...grinds me to know end.

Ya, I can hear it. Sow na, thats how my Dad says it. Thanks! He'll be so proud of me! Ha Ha
Sow as in the pig right?

Hey "Crusin" I agree with you 100% on the pronunciation of sauna. I would just tell the linguistically challenged to throw more water on the rocks. That way we could cool things off. That's the advice Uncle Wayne always gave me.

Mary, the web cam link from Sharon's "aveiwfromthefield" is down.

It's up on her site but down on the Bridge cam link.

Theresa in Co. Judy in Mi. Yes Yes We were almost neighbors growing up. If you are Judy Satterly. Saw your message about your Mom last week??? Great pictures every day aren't they... I really miss the lakes.....

GOOD MORNING from The Netherlands :)

Roudy: You know you're addicted to Pasty Cam when you actually spend a long time searching for the 7:18 picture on Sharon Smith's cam, just because someone saw a big bird on it!

thanks, Mary Drew, for all the great links -- I think we should
petition the Mirriam Webster folks to eliminate the "wrong"
sauna pronunciation!

When I was at MTU in the 80s, we regularly had pasty's in the dorm cafeteria. We would deliberatly mispronounce it as pay-stee to tease the ladies that served us. They were wonderful and went along with the joke even though I'm sure they had heard it a million times.

Heikki was coming out of Pickleman's Pantry in Newberry carrying a bag of pasties.
Uno was getting gas and saw him with the bag. "Hey, Heikki, If I guess how many pasties you have in dat bag, can I have one?"
Heikki replied, "If you can guess how many I have, I'll give you both of them."
Uno answered, "Holywha Heikki!! Okay, I think you have five of them."

aaaaahhh!

Hey Tim C. Where is that old fire truck at now? I can't seem to find the article online. Or anybody else might know too.

You can find the article in the Daily Mining Gazette Archives, scroll down to the second article.

Louies point, big travers

H from Oklahoma
It is in Tawas City in the lower. Go to Mining Gazzette archives for the article on the steam engine.

Agassiz Park is located on 4th Street in Calumet. If you know where the Calumet Theatre is located (6th St.), the park is two blocks to the east.

Beach Walk---I'm almost positive that this is the Bete Grise beach, looking south towards the "irons" and the entrance to the Mendota Canal and Mendota Lighthouse. South point is in the distance. I walk that beach every day--sometimes more than once a day--when we are vacationing at our summer cabin nearby. Ah--I'll be there soon.

We have had some wicked, wicked weather come blowing in down here in the burbs of Dee-Troit. 70 to 80 mph winds, hail size of golf balls, torrential rains....many of the major freeways are under water where there are overpasses. Many homes in Dearborn have major flood damage and they expect more rain tonight and all this weekend. We're floating away here. May I send the rain down to Texas --Ms. Shelly/Yankee in Texas!!

Thanks I finally found the article. I am a trucker and I am coming to your area soon for a school visit and wondered about bringing the the old piece home but my time doesn't mesh with the auction.

Oops--guess I was wrong. I just saw Rebecca Jennings' note that you go down the Mink Farm Road and just before the park you will see this sight with a "lighthouse-appearing" house. where is Mink Farm Road???

David- Enjoyed the pic, just wish I was on the beach picking agates & listening to the waves washing in. Boy- July 4th cann't come fast enough!!! Everyone have a great day. Thank You all for bringing the U.P. to us who live else were.

Dave of Laurium has spent so much time on "fffooorrreee", I'm surprised that the grounds crew haven't moved him along for holding up the other golfers.

To Mel, WA. Did it slam all your pores shut at the same time? (Like jumping in the snow after a sauna) :)

Bthecute1
I can't remember, it slammed my brain shut! It was actually worse than jumpin in the snow cuz there was nowhere to warm up!! Very refreshing...

Finnish Troll,
NO, NOT, NEGATIVE, FORGET IT! We sent all that rain your way cuz we didn't want it anymore! We'll have Hurricane Season soon enough and have to float our way out of that!

Before I moved here in 2001, I came to visit Houston in June when Hurricane Allsion had her little time of fame, and woke up with over a foot of H2O in the house. We had to be rescued and walked in 4 foot of water to get to higher ground. Nice huh? Can you imagine if all the rain was snow? Oh, yeah, I forgot Yoopers can relate to that! Holywha!

Just for kicks, try this old Sat photo of the Big Traverse area....

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=14&x=126&y=1633&z=16&w=2

You can zoom in and almost see the wave action...

Speaking of not being able to pronounce "pasty". It will never cease to amaze me the amount of trolls that say "were going upnorth" and they are going to Frankenmuth. Then there are those that think the Mackinaw Bridge connects to Canada. LOL Geesh! :)

Good Afternoon from Lodi!

I have some people ask me where I was from in Mich and I say the Upper Penninsula and they say "oh ya the thumb". I say "no many hours North of there." They look at me with this blank look!!!!

I was thinking that the Finns pronounce all vowels and Sauna was pronounced Sow oo na with the oo's pronounced as in boot? More of a three sylable word than two. Let me know, eh?

Sow-na!....Sow-na!....Sow-na!

dave my house is right behind the Gay bar. cousins use to own the bar Chuck & Jan if you see hubby tell him hey and we'll see him saturday.. tying flies hope it's not to cold to fly fish.. Thanks for the pictures looks like nothing has changed..
Tony

Tony, not sure which Tony this is, did you have family on Pine Street across the old Peterson funeral home?

Can't decide where to vacation this year? Here's a quick comparison. If Lake Superior were compared to Yellowstone (where I just got back from) there would be signs every 100 feet or so on the shore and all along the canal in Houghton and Hancock warning you of the dangers and perils of cold water, hypothermia and drowning. Below it would be a sign warning of a $5000 fine for touching the water. There were signs all over northwest Wyoming warning of the dangers of bears, grizzlies, etc. with the $5K fine for approaching one of them. We only saw one bear in three days of solid searching. So I get to keep the $5K.

Houghton County Memorial Airport Webcam !! It's up and running at www.houghtoncounty.org
And no snow on the runway either !!!

For a time-lapse of sunset Friday evening, as seen on the Houghton County Airport Cam, click here

Hello all u yoopers

Hey Brian in Chicagoland~~in my dorm at MSU in the early '90's the pasties they served had mushrooms in them and they came with a side of gravy. WHAT A TRAVESTY IT WAS!!

Remember the old ROBIN HOOD movie with Errol Flyn?? They were talking about eating venison pay-stees...The green tights still crack me up.

Mary, when is the Copper Country Homecoming and the Old Settler's Ball? Could you give me some details on them please?

Check out the info here: Copper Country Homecoming & Old Settler's Ball

Dick B.:
I was thinking that the Finns pronounce all vowels...
Well you got that part right, absolutely!
and Sauna was pronounced Sow oo na with the oo's pronounced as in boot?
Certainly not! The "a's" are of course pronunced like "a's", not like "ow"!
Thus: sauna: "sau-na", with the finnish "a" pronounced as in "arm" or "car" or "father", if perhaps a bit shorter, and the finnish "u" pronounced as in "bull"or "pull".

Incidentally, the "au" here is actually a dipthong - which in finnish may only occur in the first syllable (except those ending in -i, which can occur anywhere). Elsewhere, such vowel combinations are not dipthongs, as they belong to separate syllables!
There are actually two kinds of dipthongs. The first letter is slightly louder in the "falling" dipthongs (ai, ei, oi, ui, yi, äi, öi, au, eu, ou, ey, äy, öy, iu), while the second letter is slightly louder in the "rising" dipthongs (ie, uo, yö).

It does look alot like Bete Grise! I think it is b/c i live in Lac La Belle and i go to Bete Grise all the time and that looks alot like it!Ohhh... man i want a pasty right now!