Goodbye Spring...

It has been a while...I have been working on gearing up for the summer. I have also been dabbling a bit more in Facebook. You can follow OutdoorsMI on Facebook now to get more frequent updates. I believe I will make the blog a weekly event...while updating the Facebook page possibly on a daily basis. I have started to upload some pictures there...and give some more current news. I suppose the blog could be used for the longer stories. I will figure it out!

I said goodbye spring...today is VERY cold....VERY windy....and in many areas of Northern Michigan we received snow. Lucky for me...no snow here. It is crazy how the weather can sway so much up here...because it was really nice out!

So a couple things have happened since I last wrote. Spring has really sprung! We have had a few thunderstorms and LOTS of rain over the past few weeks. The green stuff is really green...and the flowery stuff is very flowery. I am very happy with the choice we made getting this house...the landscaping is very nice and will not take much to keep up. All the plants are very hearty. I also bought a canoe! It is a 16' Adventure Series canoe from Mad River Canoes out of Vermont. I took it out last Wednesday with the wife and some friends tagged along in their boats. It was a good time! I am very impressed with the canoe so far. Very stable...fairly easy to maneuver...and the best part is the wife loved it! I am deathly afraid that we made a huge purchase and she was going to absolutely hate going out in it. I predict there will be lots of time spent on the ol' canoe. Other big news is I bought the lease out on my truck. Now I can use it for all the things I WANTED to use it for...but could not. :P

As we speak I am rebuilding my desktop PC...the primary hard drive crapped out last night and I could not get it back up and running. I have a few spare hard drives laying around so I am going to try to use a few tools I have for salvaging data on dead drives. It appears that it will not even power on...so it might not be that easy. Luckily I moved most of my pictures and music to another drive...but I am almost certain that I will lose SOME stuff.

Getting the desktop PC up and running was also very important in getting the website outdoorsmi.us up and running. So until I get everything loaded back on the PC...there will not be any work on that. Luckily the design concepts I have been working on are on the laptop...and that is why I need the desktop. I cannot build a website on a laptop...too constricting.

Anyway...that about sums up at least the last week or so...as I mentioned follow us on Facebook by searching for OutdoorsMI. You can upload your own pictures or share stories, links, etc.

-Derek