Winter Begins - Plus A Summation Of Events

Here we are again!  A fairly uneventful summer, a VERY wet fall and a great start to winter lead me into hopefully what will be an active blogging season.

If this tells you anything, I haven't logged in since Blogger changed their posting interface...MUCH better than it was.  I think I might actually be able to work with this! 

That said, lets get started.  As I mentioned the summer was fairly uneventful.  We didn't really do a whole heck of a lot...work, eat and sleep.  I'm sure there is more to it than that, but nothing really sticks out.  I started a new Facebook group in late spring/early summer...it is called 'Northern Michigan Bigfoot Researchers'.  It seemed like a good progression to our outdoor activities.  We actually had a couple "squatch camps" (as we've begun to call them) where we went out to likely areas in Northern Michigan and gave it our all.  We might just have chosen some poor times to go out...but we had no activity.  We'll start again in the early spring. 

Fall was a somewhat active time...we put our house up for sale.  That has taken up the bulk of our time.  Trying to get this in order for staging and letting people walk through has been more of a chore than I ever expected.  Neither of us realized how much STUFF we have that needed to go before we felt comfortable having people walk though...not that we were afraid of theft or anything...but it sure made things look cluttered.  I noted that it was a wet fall.  We broke records for the amount of rainfall in October and November I believe.  Significant rains fell.  I believe we were over 12 inches in October and had a few more in November.  Mid-November we started to see some of that turn into the white stuff!  Yup, we had a good amount of snow on the ground in November! 

I was dreaming of a White Thanksgiving...and we got it.  Unfortunately, last night we had some warmer weather move through with some rain.  A good portion of the snow that we had built up is now gone.  Doh!  Can't imagine it'll all go away between now and later today when temps are supposed to drop into the 20s and then then 10s for the next couple days.  It doesn't appear that much system snow is headed our way in the immediate future...but with temps dropping quickly...hopefully the ol' lake effect snow machines will go into over drive. :)  A guy can always hope right?

Anyway, that is a very brief synopsis of what has been going down...I'm hoping to have more time to do this as winter comes around.  I have a few pictures I can post in the next week or so...I just need to get through them. :)

Keep your fingers crossed for good snows!

Derek