I am not talking about weather...it has been a beautiful beginning to the week! In fact, even the weekend was nice. The sun has been shining and temperatures have been in the mid 70s every day. Nights are still getting cool...but they are very tolerable. The house has been staying very warm at night so I do not need the wood furnace anymore! It has been so hot in the house that I opened the window in the middle of the night a few nights ago. Unfortunately, a few hours later I felt a raw feeling in the back of my nose and throat. I got sick again. I guarantee the window being open did it to me...and I have pretty much been miserable the last couple days. Today was a bit better...it is turning from the raw feeling to an actual cold. My nose is running and I have been sneezing all day. Well, I will pull through as usual and get to my usual activities.
In other news...I started working on my shelter again! I went out Sunday and got about half of it finished up. The walls being up really strengthened up the sides that are done. I do have a bit of thinking to do regarding how the doorway will be finished up...but I will come up with something. The whole shelter is turning into a bit different shape than I expected...and really than what I was hoping for. It was supposed to be more of a round shape but it is turning into more of a mohawk looking thing. I even took some pictures of my work! I continued to stray off of my original design by not weaving all of the sticks into the wall cross bars. I weaved them through on the center portion of the wall but as I got to the edges decided that it was just too darn hard to try to bend the dead sticks into the shape they needed to be in to finish up. I think it is really coming along nicely though...and once covered with some camo (pine bows probably) it will blend
in nicely. Hopefully anyway. The darn thing is probably close to 12 feet tall in spots...so it would be hard to miss honestly...especially this winter! ;) I do not have many pictures to share but there she is. It should be fun this fall and winter to mess around in. As long as it does not cave it I will be in good shape for some winter events out there.
Anyway...that about covers everything for the past few days. I plan to do a bit of golfing over the next few afternoons...as long as the weather pans out. I have some coupons for Chestnut Valley and Marsh Ridge. I have played Chestnut before...very poorly...and I have never been to Marsh Ridge. It should be a good time!
Goodnight from Northern Michigan!
-Derek
