The cold is here and summer is gone. We have not had temperatures much above the high 50s for the bulk of last week...and so far mid 50s today. It has been raining a lot too. On Monday/Tuesday I believe we had just over 2 1/2 inches of rain. On top of that it rained most of the day yesterday and for a little while today. My rain gauge stopped working yesterday so I am not sure of the totals today...probably about time to change the batteries.
I have been taking care of the typical fall "stuff " that has to be taken care of in Northern Michigan. I shaved the lawn down, drained the pool, picked up all the lawn furniture and now all I have left is to pick up the rest of the wood so it will be dry by winter. I admit I am cutting it a bit close...but the wood has been cut up for the last few weeks. I should be able to finish that up today into tomorrow. Overall there really is not a heck of a lot going on up here in my neck of the woods. I imagine we will be going to buy pumpkins for Halloween soon...and maybe some other decorations for the yard.
Other big news: I have the wood furnace going. We still need to do a bit of clean up to do on it...but it works and we are warm! Possibly too warm. ;) (Me anyway!) It was mid-June when I finally turned it off...so things are pretty much up to par. Can you believe that? Just a short 3 1/2 months ago I stopped burning wood for the summer! Sadly, there were many days during the summer that we probably could have burned wood to stay warm. Overall, it was a nice summer if you like cool and dry. We may still see some nice warm days...but rolling into October we would really be pressing our luck.
Well, that covers most everything I have for now...trust me there will be a lot more updates as winter approaches. I am a bit disappointed that I am not going to be able to move over to outdoorsmi.com now...that was going to be my early winter project. Hopefully I can get that domain back. Keep your fingers crossed!
-Derek
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