The Bean Brook on the way to Thanksgiving Dinner.

Home on Thanksgiving morning. Whoever sees this I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving. 🦃

With family in front of fire 47. Thankful to be together. Especially after yesterday. I almost got crushed on Highway 63' in Springbrook making a left hand turn into the Post Office. Looked in my rear view mirror to see a semi coming at a speed too fast to stop. Without hesitation I eased my jeep over to the right. He must've seen me in time to move his rig over and get around me. As he passed that's when the adrenaline, anger, and swearing kicked in. Calmness prevailed when needed. I got out at the Post Office to see if he or she could see my brake lights. They were snow free. I do drive a white jeep, so I tried to give the driver the benefit of the doubt. All my lights were clear. Lucky. To live another day. We got 8 inches at the house. Wet, sticky snow. Hard to shovel. Underneath the ground not frozen. It was tough going on the mail route. I delivered in 4-wheel drive except when I got on bare pavement. Road salt does wonders once the sun hits it. Everything got delivered. Well, that's it for now. Going to turn my attention to people in the room. I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving. 🦃

From the mail trail: The Namekagon River just outside of Earl, WI at sunset. 11.26.25

Snow out there. I don't know how much. I asked Annie at midnight. She thought 4 to 5 inches then. I looked out the window a bit ago. It looked like it was snowing. I didn't make much of an effort to see.I will be working in it in about 15 minutes. Clearing off the jeep, feeding animals, then delivering mail in it all day. I ran when it was beginning to fall last night. It didn't take long for my feet to get wet and my shirt to get soaked. I always take interest in the way I feel sitting in a car delivering mail in the cold falling snow with the heaters blowing on me compared to being out in it working out with light clothes on. The latter more of a pleasure. There's something about letting go, letting the cold in for a bit. Like relaxing a clinched fist. Off to the mail trail. I hope you have a great day.

Good morning. Back to the mail trail today. I head out the door in 5 minutes, this fire should be burned down by then. It's supposed to snow sometime today. It's 40 out there now. It's going to have to cool down for it to turn into anything. Two mail vehicles sit in the yard with snow tires. There's 4 more on the way for the other jeep. That eases my mind a little. I'm off. Hope you have a great day! Morning fire 45 11.25.25

Good morning from the front of morning fire 44 🔥 11.24.25

Good morning!🔥 Fire 43 11.23.25

I had a lot of Amazon packages yesterday. I don't think I could've fit another box in my jeep. I've been saying this more and more lately. There was a period this summer where it felt whatever distributes the packages knew the size of my vehicles. It was smooth. Things fit nicely. Not lately though. It'll get to the middle of the week and I will get giant boxes. That's when the stress level goes up. They're hard to handle and fit. Sometimes there will be 50 pound dog food bags in them. The woman that works next to me had a couple plastic plastic sleds packed in big boxes last week. Someone told me yesterday the Black Friday deals are starting. I imagine the volume and size of packages are going to increase from here on out. Seen some nice bucks on the mail trail the past couple days. That's it for now. Off to the mail trail. Morning fire 41 11.21.25

6 AM. Good morning 🔥 Morning fire 40 11.20.25