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To: HairOfTheDog

Fruit salad! Yummy yummy...

6,641 posted on 04/30/2004 8:31:12 PM PDT by msdrby (Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. - Sam Houston)

To: Sam Cree; JenB

Definitely, anytime you go out on the water, you're up against Mother Nature. Just a bit north of where I am is the point where Lake Michigan comes together with Green Bay, Lake Superior, and Lake Huron. The Indians called it something which the French colonists translated as "Porte Des Morts"--"Door of Death". More ships have sunk there than in the Bermuda Triangle. It's a creepy place:

Pilot Island Lighthouse

"Port Des Morts" Translates to "Door of Death" and Pilot Island is located in the middle of Death's Door. Old log books contain numerous stories of storms, shipwrecks etc. Since the island is so exposed it was impossible to land or leave for days. . .First assistant keeper John Boyce committed suicide on June 20, 1880, speculation was due to a lost love.

Beyond Milwaukee: Death's Door Strait

Door County's Death's Door Strait is said to be the site of more shipwrecks than any body of fresh water in the world, and rivals ocean sites for navigational mishaps.

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Some say the French actually played a little politics in naming the strait. They didn't want the English to find their fur trade routes to Wisconsin and surrounding areas, so tried to scare them from sailing through the area. Yet others attribute the name, in part, to an alleged incident in which dozens of Native American warriors died in a sudden storm. At least one account involving Native Americans has one tribe building a ring of campfires on thin ice offshore, to woo their enemies through the strait overnight. The attackers perished on the way.

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That article is only one of dozens of sources for information on Death's Door Strait. One of my favorites is a 1974 book, "Death's Door: The Pursuit of a Legend." And, now with this wonderful resource of the internet, you have an outstanding web site at www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org. This site, a joint project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, includes shipwrecks well beyond Death's Door. For each, including those in the strait, it gives information about the building and lifetime of the sunken ship. It also includes a tale of the final day of the vessel. This writer highly recommends the site if you are interested in such things.

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I have walked many times to the park and have seen the strait in many moods. Sometimes it is serene, to the point where you wonder how it ever got its name. But, sometimes, often around this time of the year, the strait becomes angry. The winds howl and the waves climb to frightening heights. On those days, you can see how Death's Door Strait has become a legend in Great Lakes shipping lore.

6,642 posted on 04/30/2004 8:32:07 PM PDT by Fedora

That's neat when you can see to the horizon like that. I had an experience like that once while driving down the length of Illinois down to Kansas City and then across to Oklahoma. You could see nothing in every direction except storms with lightning striking all around the car. It was wild.

6,643 posted on 04/30/2004 8:34:08 PM PDT by Fedora

Have a good night, Sam!

6,644 posted on 04/30/2004 8:34:50 PM PDT by Fedora

6,645 posted on 04/30/2004 8:35:01 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (I am HairOfTheDog and I approved this message.)

To: HairOfTheDog

What would you like me to post for dessert?

Coconut pie? :-)

oh, ya weren't askin' me...

6,646 posted on 04/30/2004 8:36:27 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)

To: HairOfTheDog; msdrby

I think I have to go rummage around for something to munch on now....

6,647 posted on 04/30/2004 8:37:31 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)

Nope.... was only interested in treating msdrby! ;~D

6,648 posted on 04/30/2004 8:38:03 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (I am HairOfTheDog and I approved this message.)

Hmm, you know, you have a point. The doc *did* tell me to eat lotsa meat and fruit.

Mebbe tomorrow the storms will be gone and we can grill outside.

BTW, tonight I was doing as I was told, sitting with my feet up, and elf-boy and PE were in the kitchen sitting on the floor in front of the fridge. Elf-boy was showing off a bit. He was making words for PE with the magnet letters we have. Well, I was so proud of him I had to call my mother! Wish I had taken a picture. After spelling tons of simple words, PE got him to read and spell word, worm, and work, but not world. He knows about blends, but I think he was tired of it at that point. (He also spelled and read cabin, and Tarzan earlier.) I was absolutely beaming with pride. He gets so excited when he figures out a new word!

6,649 posted on 04/30/2004 8:40:17 PM PDT by msdrby (Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. - Sam Houston)

To: HairOfTheDog

Oh, that fruit salad looks good! Just had a fruit and juice bar but I wish I would've had that instead! :)

6,650 posted on 04/30/2004 8:40:25 PM PDT by Fedora

To: HairOfTheDog

I figured...

... so I am eating cookie dough in bed! :-)

6,651 posted on 04/30/2004 8:40:35 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)

To: HairOfTheDog

6,652 posted on 04/30/2004 8:41:12 PM PDT by msdrby (Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. - Sam Houston)

That is excellent! PE is such a good dad!

6,653 posted on 04/30/2004 8:42:04 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)

To: HairOfTheDog

Now my tub of cookie dough is all gone. :-(

6,654 posted on 04/30/2004 8:43:11 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)

That sounds good to me!

6,655 posted on 04/30/2004 8:45:48 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (I am HairOfTheDog and I approved this message.)

Very cool! As long as Elf-boy doesn't do what I did as a kid and practice his newfound spelling skills by taking a magic marker and labelling things around the house--I spelled "wall" and "freezer" before my Mom caught me. . .

6,656 posted on 04/30/2004 8:47:58 PM PDT by Fedora

:-) I know! You know, we were just talking about how fulfilling parenting is earlier today.

However, we may have to have a "Come to Jesus" with elf-boy regarding bedtime... It is partly our fault for not sticking to the 8:30 deadline all the time. It just gets away from me, I know. But lately elf-boy has been not wanting to sleep in his bed. He would rather sleep anywhere but his bed. It has never been a battle before, but I have a feeling with the baby coming, it soon will be.

6,657 posted on 04/30/2004 8:49:05 PM PDT by msdrby (Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. - Sam Houston)

To: HairOfTheDog

Well, it's all gone now. None left.

Will have to get some more next time I go to the store.

Celia and I picked up odds and ends of candy for the troops while we were out tonight. I think I'll have maybe 3 more boxes to send real soon. I don't know if I'll get 'em packed or not because I'm running over to Ft. Worth tomorrow... but should get them Sunday anyway.

And that was all said because I *could* have grabbed cookie dough while out getting the troop stuff and running around with Celia if I'd known I was about out!

6,658 posted on 04/30/2004 8:49:25 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)

I dunno, are you sure the place he sleeps is a battle you wanna pick? I used to let my kids sleep on the couch or in one another's rooms as long as they went to bed when I told 'em. They were always sleeping places other than their beds.

6,659 posted on 04/30/2004 8:51:11 PM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)

(He told me tonight that he wanted me to sleep on the couch so he could sleep on my side of the bed...)

6,660 posted on 04/30/2004 8:54:16 PM PDT by msdrby (Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. - Sam Houston)

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