ZOMBIE WINTER 2015
April 7th through 13th   


Early last week, it snowed. It snowed again just before the weekend. As Winter mindlessly shuffled around the area, it was clear that ZOMBIE WINTER, one of the most feared of the four horsemen of the snowpocalypse, was upon us trying to freeze our brains.


In between storms, melt water swelled streams and creeks flowing into the lake. Lake Lucerne clearly looks higher than it was last Fall. Huzzah!

ZOMBIE WINTER extended tapping season for another week.


Minions of the third horseman proved helpful back in the sap fields.
By Sunday, much of ZOMBIE WINTER was vanquished, the maples stopped dripping, and an amazingly small crew of tappers began to haul buckets from the woods and clean them. Filtering and canning was done every other day last week. It's been a good year.
On the weekend, it got warmer. Plants and strange fungi began to peek out from the forest floor..
 The lake ice is still around but wounded. Strong winds on Sunday pushed some of the more rotten stuff into the rocks on the northwest shore.


This has been the second year in a row than we have been honored with a visit by ZOMBIE WINTER. The 7 inches of snow on Monday made golf difficult. The 8 inches on Friday made it harder. All that snow melting on a still mostly frozen watershed is rushing into the lake. The rocks on the north end are slipping under the water and the lake is starting to lap at the legs of lifts that were thought to have been pulled far enough out of the water last Fall. Late last weekend, at least one boat lift was been pulled out a little more to prevent ice damage. Lake Wabikon opened up this last weekend. Lake Lucerne is usually 1 or 2 weeks behind that one. I don't think the ice will make May this year.

-Nemo's feels that alliteration is the key to a good update.                                       Previous   Next