largest timber wolf ever killed & photgraphed

November 18, 1935, It was the third day of deer season in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Earl Eastman was hunting with Fred Masse and a couple of Earl's buddies from Flint MI. They had been hunting around the Rhody Creek Trail (between Seney and Grand Marais Mich.). Earl had left his lunch in his car and was walking back to get it when he had stopped to rest in some heavy hemlocks, while wondering why he had not seen any deer so far, considering that it was a great day for hunting with 10-12 inches of snow on the ground, when all of a sudden he heard what sounded like horses running throuh the woods and here comes three deer, a doe and two fawns, comming down the hill right at him! One of the fawns fell and the doe seemed to be helping it get to its feet when from over the hill came one of the damnedest roars he had ever heard. It was a scary sound, Earl had thought to himself: a lion has escaped from a circus and is after those deer! Earl could not believe his eyes as he looked up and saw this huge timber wolf come bounding down the hill. His first shot missed him and he leaped in the air at the sound of the gunshot, twisting just as i fired again. Earl's second shot took him clean through the shoulders and he fell to the ground, roaring. Then he swears he heard another wolf roaring from over the hill. He then slowly edged up to the beast he had just shot, he was howling, frothing at the mouth and glaring at me with bright yellow eyes like an owl. He shot him again just grazing his skull, and finally killed him with his fourth shot. On dragging the great wolf to his car he had to stop every 8-10 feet as he figured the wolf weighed well over 200 pounds and the going was tuff. shortly Fred Masse cought up with Earl, assuming he was going to help with a deer. (imagine his surprise) any way Fred helped Earl drag the wolf to the car, and propped the wolf in the hood of the car, and used a stick to prop open the wolf's mouth,by this time is was now dark, and just down the trail 2 men and their wives were stuck in the snow, the men Earl, and Fred helped to push them out, then one of the men asked the hunters if they had, had any luck? Fred responded: "Want to see our luck?" and led them back to the car, Fred shined his flashlight at the wolf's head, and one of the women screamed bloody murder and fainted dead away! When the men got back to Grand Marais, Charlie Goodman gutted the wolf and threw the guts into a pig pen in the back of Fred Masse's house. the damn pigs almost stomped each other to death trying to get away from the smell of wolf. The next morning Ol'man Trombly (he deliverd ice and milk with a one-horse wagon) was coming down the road toward town when his horse got wind of a strong odor of wolf. The horse wheeled and bolted away in the opposite direction, scattering milk every which way, and nearly scaring to death poor Ol' Trombly. Nick Carter was the game warden at the time and he estimated the wolf to be about six years old, and one of the biggest he'd ever seen. One of the offers Earl had for the wolf was $200.00 and three, 10 point bucks. This was a very temping offer at the time, but Earl said no. Later he took the wolf back to Flint where a man from Pittsburgh offered $250.00 plus mount the wolf, and let Earl have it on display in his barber shop in Flint for two years. It was then taken to the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and put on display in a wildlife scene. The wolf was officially measured at 7 feet 11 inches long, stood 39 inches at the shoulders and 12-3/4 inches across the skull. It weighed 182 pounds after it had been gutted. This story is found in; The Great Lakes Pilot - a collectors edition, silver anniversary issue. This paper is printed and issued out of Grand Marais Mich. I am fortunate enough that my daughter dates the owners, writers, and publishers son,who not only helped me attain this lost issue but who also deliveres this paper all across the Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin. On an interesting note; apon contacting the Carnegie Institue about the wolf mount it was discovered that they lost it! They cannot find any records of it and have no idea where it is or where it went? There is a photo of above wolf in the paper listed above. I hope you read and enjoy the full artical.

cell phones?

I know you've all heard the commercial "can you hear me now?" well that phone doesn't work around here! the only phone that works where i live (and the surrounding area) is altel, and tracfone is carried by them, the prob. is my experience with the %&% company! I have been a customer of theirs since the begining and they never reply to any e-mails that complain, I have 6 (yes six) phones with them under my account, and to date i have had to return 5, and purchase 3 new ones. they just suddenly quite when adding minutes, stop charging, or just simply die. you then have to call the company, be on the phone for hours, and when you get the new phone, (you also have to argue with them because they have in the past tried to insist the phone i have does not work where i live, and the phone in question is the phone i use!) and they want to replace it with an older, cheeper model)!, then you loose all information that you have installed, and now must re-install this same info. into your new phone! (that is if you can find it, or if your smart and learn from past experience), you have it written down someplace. and have they ever compensated me for all this inconvience? NO! not once, not an upgrade of phone, not a single free minute added for all the troubles i have gone through with these phones! yet I am stuck because they are the most reliable service around here! This is one of those life things a person has to deal with, where companys love to screw with you because they know they can. p.s. it would also help if their operators spoke a better and clear english language, instead of trying to decipher what it is they said, and having to ask them what a dozen times.

begining

well this is my first blog, lol and not to interesting i'm sure but to see if this works here goes: my day began after 4 hours sleep, woke up spent aprox. 1/2 hr. picking up puppy messes, getting water,food and letting dogs, and puppies out and corraling them into the pen and dog runs, drove 50 miles to drop my son off in nearby town for school sporting practice, went to work as curator of local museum, left there came home did dishes, and load of laundry, repeated dog thing, and went to work 7 miles away as cook in resturant, came home did the dog thing and then this and talking to my oldest son from texas, and looking for his ss card. to airmail to him on monday. and now i am going to bed. and will check this tomarrow after i do all the above again. so see anyone tomarow, or actually Monday morning. (as it is still sat. for me). I just look forward to monday evening off and i get to be so lucky i get to drive 50 miles one way to go grocery shopping! but at least the drive is relaxing! hey stay positive, right!