Goodbye Winter 2012-13...Maybe?

So much for being a good blogger...after I got excited the last time I wrote I must have forgotten to start again. ;)

The winter that I spoke of?  Well, it kicked into high gear in late February and into March...and then again in April...and then in May.  May you say?  Yes, May.  I believe my last snowmobile ride was officially April 24th this year...I believe the latest I've ever ridden.  Pretty wild for the crappy start we had!  Back to May.  We had a cold spell roll into town late last week...which led to some fairly intense snow over the weekend for some areas.  It did snow really hard for a period of time at our house...but the high snowfall amount I believe was 3.3 inches up in Da Soo.  The total there for May was 5.5 after that...the 2nd highest snowfall since 1924 when they received over 7 inches in May.  So much for global warming eh?

I took a week off from work and did a bunch of clearing up at the land we bought last fall.  I am doing it all by hand...loppers and a chain saw!  Talk about a lot of work...but it gets me out into the woods; something I've missed for a few years now.  (Hence the lack of blogging!)  We are working toward planting pine trees along all of the property borders...just as reminder to us AND our neighbors that there are boundaries out in the sticks.  I marked one side and the back with twine and tape...that'll hopefully stay up until I'm done planting the trees...I believe a deer ran into one line the other day...I'll have to check on that when I go back up.

Anyway...it's getting late but I wanted to write a quick note.

Goodnight from Northern Michigan,

Derek