Wrap up of 2008 on Torch Lake Views – your favorites and mine

Click for click, these were readers’ favorite posts on Torch Lake Views during 2008:

• ERN – Milk Shake!  and the linked page of photos (Milk hauler jack-knifes on Essex Road).  What is it with tow trucks and milk haulers?  Month after month, this post is always a winner.
• Babs got dig-effects!  Also bears.  Or wolves.  Howling.  Everybody loves Babs and everybody’s googling wolves.  If Babs ever takes a photo of a wolf chasing a milk hauler across frozen Torch Lake, we’ll all be famous.
• Dedicated to the future: Community Service Building opens.  This one is popular because it has pictures of practically everybody in the Township.
• The nooks, the crannies, the incredibly perfect ways to spend part of your vacation in Torch Lake Township  and Torch Lake Township Visitors Guide available at local businesses.  Lots of tourists come here and spend most of their vacations wandering around looking for things.  We figured if we could help them find things they’d relax, slow down, stay longer, buy waterfront real estate . . . It’s working, too.
• Post Pantry: Michael and Me, Diving for Guns in Torch Lake, and Staying out of Jail .  Must be the title.
• The Alba Injection Well and Why It Matters to Torch Lake Township.  The controversy continues, and people find their way to the site looking for more information about an issue they care about. 
• Betty Beeby’s Sturdy Stable Artist’s Fables.  Betty’s a perennial favorite around here, and this post was fun to do.
• Spring sunset over Antrim County.  This is one of my favorite Babs Young photos, and apparently you like it too.  A lot.
• Berging the Carp and Carving the Wolf.  Must be the tail end of winter.  More Babs, more wolves.
• The farms of Antrim.  Record-Eagle readers linked to this post from the full story on the R-E site.

These are my 2008 favorites . . . at the moment:

• Oral History Project in Elk Rapids Schools (January)
  • Tales told by the light of flashbacks
  • Day One
  • Students and Elders Connect
• Donnie and Dee-Dee: A Love Story (February)
• Sounds fishy to me (March)
• Babs comes to TLV – her first post (March)
• Betty Beeby’s Sturdy Stable Artist’s Fables (April)
• One of my favorite Babs Young photos, Spring sunset over Antrim County (April)
• In gratitude (May)
• Stone Circle opens its 25th season (June)
• Torch Lake vs. Petoskey (June)
• Day trip: Scenic drive through ripening plenty (July)
• Borrowing grandchildren, meeting a boa constrictor and playing in a giant sandbox (August)
• If you mow it they will run (August)
• Letters from Katherine: While Weeding (August)
• Comfort food (September)
• Letters from Katy: Waterspout on the Bay (Tornado on the Torch?) (September)
• Love affair with local food (October)
• Letters from Katherine: On the road in autumn (October)
• In search . . . غروب (October)
• November Song (November)
• Early Christmas presents (November)
• An old-fashioned barn-falling (December)
• Frosty dawn (December)
• A walk on the beach: Catching some (g)rays (December)
• Lights of Christmas . . . and bells, bells, bells (December)
• A camel in Antrim County (December)
• Christmas at the Ellsworth Farmers Exchange   I’m pretty sure this is my favorite Babs Young photo, at least until the next one(December)

I expect I’ll change my mind in the morning.  Ah well. Won’t be the first time.