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Good Morning! 39 degrees and cloudy here in Houghton.

Good Morning! 40 and sunny in central Minny this morning.

Just curious, do any of you What'sUPers out there happen to know how Coburntown got that name?

Maybe after James Coburn?

Named for Henry W. Coburn a iron furnace operator.
(michigan place names)

It is a pleasant 50 degrees here in Grand Rapids this morning (even the sun was out...for about 10 minutes)

Going out under the blooming apple tree to read the Sunday paper. Was 87 yesterday. Have a great Sunday and week!

Good morning everybody! Letting all my e-mail buddies that we aren't able to receive any e-mail again. Something's wrong with our server. Thank goodness we were at least able to get on here to get our daily fix of UP pictures.

The slideshow was good as usual. Loved the flowers from Joyce. Went into Dan Urbanski's gallery yesterday and was totally impressed, as I always am with his pictures.

Have a great day everybody!

Hi. I ran across this just now in today's Detroit Free Press online, so I wanted to share it with you: "The most expensive station in Michigan is in the Upper Peninsula, at the Paradise Recreational Sports station on M-123. A gallon of regular there was listed on the site Friday at $4.17."
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080517/NEWS09/805170347

I guess it's not terribly surprising after some of the stuff that I've seen the last couple of weeks.

86 degrees in Long Beach California. Please send some of that brisk weather this way.

75 in San Jose, headed to 90 again probably. It's a DRY HEAT tho!

I guess the Detroit Free Press doesn't get out on Beaver Island much.......

Island Energies, the lone gas station on Beaver Island that sells gas to automobiles, raised its self-serve regular unleaded gas to $5.19 a gallon Sunday morning according to GasBuddy.com.

They have been paying $4.99 a gallon for quite some time now, and just raised their prices over the weekend. Also, the marina on Beaver Island is the same price; $5.19. Ours actually dropped to $3.59 today.

Hey Robze! Tomorrow morning there is a freeze warning for the western part of the UP and the same forcast for the western half of the LP. The radar shows purple and white precipitation at the Whitefish Point area and in the lower Ontario area! Would that be the kind of brisk weather you are looking for??????????

I'll take it Paul, I'll take it. Better yet, maybe I'll head out to the U.P. Ontonagon area and make sure the freeze shows up. We're at 88 right now.

Holy Moly, Capt Paul! I didn't even know that Beaver Island had a gas station, to be honest. (Part of your Beaver Island marine gas game, I suppose, is having to transport the gas from the main land to the island.)

You always, always pay a premium for marine gas, which I am pretty sure is technically the same composition as gas for cars. And, it should be a lot cheaper than gas for cars, because some of those taxes that are on gas for cars and other road vehicles, and that make gas in Michigan so expensive, are road taxes that are not applicable for marine purposes. It is somewhat crazy, I know. We nearly always fill the gas tank for our little boat at a regular gas station for cars, to avoid the ridiculous marine premium, for what I believe is the marine gas monopoly game.