3.17.23 Friday

Measurable snow YTD: 119.75" (9.98 feet)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

It's been awhile....We've been getting visited by some local wildlife...Earlier this month, after a fresh snow, we found moose tracks all around the house.  It came from the back of the property, circled the entire house, went down the trail and destroyed the neighbor's gate.  An ornery one, I guess!  It must have passed through during the night.  We never saw it.

Then a couple of nights ago, Kevin heard crunching foot steps in the snow outside the house about midnight.  By the time he got out there with his gun and light, whatever it was was gone.  The next day we found bear prints the size of Kevin's hand.  It had come up the trail from the railroad tracks.  They are apparently coming out of hibernation already...

Our neighbor, Ben, sold his four-wheeler and needed us to help him get it into town earlier this week.  Since there's snow on the trail, he built a sled to pull it on but his snow machine wasn't strong enough to pull it.  We estimated 600+ pounds? So we hooked it up to our snow machine, he followed with his machine pulling our sled, and we were off!

It was pretty brutal pulling it for 12 miles in first gear and it was yanking pretty good.  After multiple stops and a couple of redirected straps, we made it! At one point, I realized Ben wasn't behind us for several minutes.  He later said he had to stop and replace the spark plug in his snow machine.  You have to be prepared for just about anything on the trail!

One last thing....remember those appliances that we bought a few months back?  The refrigerator is working like a champ!  And today, Kevin got the gas dryer up and going!  I am so excited!  We went into town to wash the laundry (because the drain line for our little washer has been frozen all winter), brought it back wet and WA-LA! Dry clothes without having to stare at them for three days while they dry on the wooden racks around the woodstove.  Trust me, it's the little things....

Until next time....