Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[aart]

Sure we'll have an 'early spring' then get 2' of snow in mid April!

 

[troyer]

Sure we'll have an 'early spring' then get 2' of snow in mid April!

I think you're right on.

 

[RaZ]

We haven't really had that much snow in my neck of the woods. Even so, the county trucks have been blading the ole dirt road. The salt truck made several passes earlier today and widened the width about half again what it was. I'm not sure how wide the belly blade is on the truck. A couple of hours later, the grader came down the road. That is an impressive machine. Blade on front, another underneath, and a huge wing on the side. Seeing that thing always brings back the little boy in me that played with Tonka trucks all day long. I gave all those old Tonkas to my step-son for his 2 boys. Some of them are even older than I am.

Got the beef suet out on a tree waiting for the pileated to come back. Steady parade of birds coming in to the feeders. Some of the males are starting to show spring colouring. With all of the wild birds and the chickens around I haven't seen a hawk for a long time. Haven't seen the eagle for 2 months now. That's good for the chickens but I do enjoy seeing the raptor birds around.

 

[RaZ]

My rooster was peeking in the window and then he mooned me.

 

[aart]

100lbs of feed moved and transferred into the metal bin.
Sun sure is nice, almost 40° in the coop.
Grocery getting tomorrow before more precipitation.

 

[Sally PB]

Sure we'll have an 'early spring' then get 2' of snow in mid April!

Knock on wood!

It's the spring teasers in early-mid March that really get me. Melt all the snow, tease us with some warm-ish temps and sunshine. Then back to grey, cloudy, cold, raw, wet crappy stuff. That's when it really drags for me.

 

[aart]

It's the spring teasers in early-mid March that really get me. Melt all the snow, tease us with some warm-ish temps and sunshine. Then back to grey, cloudy, cold, raw, wet crappy stuff. That's when it really drags for me.

I hear ya....I remember those days.
Now I would be happy with no more snow and temps above 20.
I like spring, but hate summer.

 

[Sally PB]

I like spring, but hate summer.

I am lucky to be able to handle heat pretty well. Michigan heat, anyway. Not like the Carolinas or Florida. I'd probably hate summer there, but here, it's my favorite season. A big part of that is the long hours of daylight, I think.

 

[picklestheduck]

I honestly am enjoying the frozen ground right now. We bought a house on 5 acres about a year ago....and it was our dream place...till we got a ton of rain and discovered hidden issues the inspectors didn't catch...a waterfall in the closet when it rains, mold everywhere in the house...(very toxic mold) and the property filled with water and went down and went back up....my poor horses all had awful infections from knee deep mud, all the trucks and tractors got stuck in the pastures....and I took quite a few spills in the knee deep mud.....horses pushed me over mostly or me just being clumsy, fell. Right now all the water and mud is frozen, and the property again looks like the dream it once was.....but when spring comes.....I wish I could be far far away.... this water drain runs through the center of my horse pasture...

in the background of the pic with the ducks, you can see the water....but that was tolerable....that was when it still looked nice. since then the rest of the pasture was destroyed. And sadly....although we have been trying to....we can't find a place to relocate to.

 

[Sally PB]

@picklestheduck, sorry to hear about your drainage issue. What a huge disappointment.