SHUCKS!

WIND SLED SERVICE BETWEEN BAYFIELD AND LA POINTE HAS BEGUN

Saturday, 9:00 AM.  -4 degrees F, wind SW with occasional moderate gusts.  The sky is clear, the sun bright.  The humidity is 79%, and the barometer more or less steady at.30.17".  It is a gorgeous winter morning.
   The windsled service to Madeline Island began yesterday, just one day after the ferry stopped running.  Usually there is an interlude of at least a few days as the ice thickens.
   Shucks!  No need to engineer an emergency beer run to La Pointe via dogsled.  No more dreams of an annual dog sled race similar to the Alaskan Iditerod to commemorate the event. No fame, no glory, no tourist dollars. Guess I'll go ice fishing.