Tree Tapping Weekend II
March 18th through 24th   
Snow.  On the week of the Spring Equinox we got more snow.  It went well with the foot or two of snow we already had.  Snowmobilers are having a great year.  Golfers not so much.
Skiers are having a good time also.  We visited Brule on Thursday.  It was the last time we'll fall down the slopes this season .
This was as crowded as the main lot got.  We came in the green truck.  The upper lot had a few more cars.  Three I think.  The lines for the lifts were not long.
Only two lifts were running, one in the back and another in the front. When getting off the lifts, tips were kept up but we forgot our bird houses.  It was only a minor faux pas since we have never been able to balance them on the tips of our skies quite as well as the picture suggests.
Comet Panstarrs (aka Comet Loser) was up just after sunset this week.  We found the 5.8 Magnitude object using 80mm binoculars.  Very underwelming.  This picture of the moon was taken the same night (Thursday at around 8:15 PM).
The ice covering Knott Lane is less thick but smoother.  We really need some Spring weather to melt it before someone breaks their neck.
No sap meant the cooker's snow hat stayed on another few days.
An additional 118 trees were tapped to bring our total to 358.  No sap was running, so time that would have been spent collecting was instead used to pray that the filter's motor makes it through another season.
The varmint under the bar (Badger, Fox, Raccoon?) got all noisy early in the week.  We startled it into leaving by stomping around the bar at three in the morning.  We haven't heard it since.  If you're keeping score that's Nemo 1 and Varmint 1.  Later in the week we found some fur and blood spread out over the drive and yard.  This complicates the bracket.  I guess the score is Nemo 1, Varmint 1, and Varmint eating critter 1.
A flock of turkeys (wasn't that an 80's band?) is roaming the north end of the lake.
No hole was cut into the lake to check the ice.  It's got to be still about 24 inches thick with a foot or more of snow on top.  Warmer weather, but still 10℉ below normal, is coming next week.  That should have the trees running and the snow melting by next weekend.  At least I hope so or there's going to be some mighty dry pancakes this year.

-Nemo versus Varmint Eating Critter in the second round?                     Previous  Next