Possibly a return on the horizon?

Yikes!  Over a year since my last post?  That doesn't seem real at all.  I'm sure Blogger doesn't like though.  Scary.

I had a pretty gnarly 2012...so I'm not going to even talk about it.  But 2013 so far looks to be a bit better and that is where we will begin the new adventures.

To recap our 2012-13 winter so far, there has been little but a bunch of toying with snow lover's emotions.  We had a good start in December after a fairly warm November.  We got a bunch of snow a couple different times only to be followed by a week or two or warm and rain.  Through January we experienced much of the same...but it has been quite  a bit colder.  We did lose most of our snow though and it has been a tough battle to get it back.  Things are looking up though...it has pretty much been snowing for the past two weeks.  We had a quick warm up at the beginning of this past week but it was thwarted by some fairly arctic air.

I mentioned in the past my Ski-Doo was wrecked and traded in for an ATV.  That has gone well and the ATV gets used as much as we can use it...not much though.  So this year I decided it was time to get the Yamaha back into commission.  After a few years sitting in the garage it was either get it moving or get rid of it.  I opted to have someone take a look at it for me.  I took it to Highland Trails in Conway, MI to get a check up.  I explained the over heating issue, the lack of power issue, and of course this year I couldn't get it started at all...it wasn't getting any gas.  After a couple days down at their shop, I got the call that it was ready to rock and roll and was running fine.  I could barely believe that...but I rode it home that night on some old Sta-bil gas.  It didn't care much for that. ;)  Since then (early January) I have ridden it it just about 150 miles.  I've been being careful because I don't trust it completely yet. ;)  It has never left me stranded...but I figure this would be the time.  So far so good though...no over heating and no lack of power.  I switched back to an old Yamaha belt that I had...and she runs like new.  VERY good news for the blog too....since I should actually have something to share now.

I tried a while back to regroup this blog and start to study some local history...that fell apart after my issues in 2012.  I doubt that I will take the blog in that direction at this point...just because it is so time consuming and I'm a busy fella.  I will continue to keep it themed toward the outdoors.  I guess I'd also like to take it into a bit of a gun advocate direction too...with all of the non-sense going on with our current administration and their anti-gun sentiment.  Gun grabs don't end well for anyone...and hopefully people start to realize that.

This is more than I've written for over a year...so I suppose I'll end it for now.  I have the sled back so I should have some pictures in the near future...that will probably be toward next weekend hopefully.  I have learned there might be a winter camping event next weekend so I might even have some pictures from that to share.

Keep squatchin'!

-Derek