Sunny and mid-fifties in Michigan today. Sure felt great to be outside. Took advantage of the nice weather and spent the day in the woods . Most of the property is too wet to get to right now. But there were a couple of windblown soft maples not far from the woods edge that I had placed on the back burner. Bucked em' up and then began splitting. Once I started swinging the axe, I couldn't stop. Ended up with a really nice pile of splits. Prolly stack it up and use it for campfire wood. Hope others had as enjoyable day as I did!
great work! wish I could have been doing that we got to 40 but the muck and melted snow is just slop.. Mud season in January
Very wet and muddy here, also. But I try to save certain areas for just such an occasion. Hit the ash pretty hard last weekend and the one before. No way I could get there today, just too wet. There is a method to my madness.
understood.. could be I am just too lazy without my Kubota. .. and I don't want to fix the ruts thathe would put thru the yard!
Unreasonably warm here, too! But we still have 6" of snow on the ground in the woods, so I was able to do some skidding yesterday. The NWS indicates a week of slop coming our way - I'm hoping for a zero-sum game with respect to snow depth - it is pretty easy getting around, but enough to keep the logs clean. I'm surprised at some of the recent pics from northern states where it is still bare ground.
Saturday in Northern Kentucky was 64°. I put an ash tree down, we walked in the muddy woods then went for a 40 mile bicycle ride. A great day for near the end of January. On this date back in '77 it was -25° and the Ohio River did what was supposed to be the impossible for modern times and froze solid from bank to bank.
We've got essentially no snow here north of Milwaukee. It's just in piles from plows, and where drifts blew it. It hit 51° yesterday and didn't drop below 43° overnight. Muddy slopfest here. I'll post up some patio stack refill pics from my house later. Wheelbarrow fun today to refill the stack, and hopefully get all of the wood from the stacks below up for the season. Then I can start thinking about making my woodshed that will hold 3 seasons of firewood. Yesterday was my ATV and splitter maintenance day. So when it gets down to freezing again, I can fell, buck and split.
Although it is nice to get a break from the cold, I feel like we will prolly pay for it later. An April snowstorm would not surprise me one bit.
We hit 52 yesterday here but fog all day. So far today the fog has finally lifted. 43 now and has been there for several hours. Not forecasting to get much higher either. I tried to work in the woods yesterday and was nice to work with no coat but my body just would not cooperate much. I did get 3 or 4 small trees down but they still lay there. I had to head to the house. I'd like to do more this coming week but it looks to be wet for most of the week. We'll see. Frank and Beans we were hoping to get down to MSU for the RV show this weekend but it just didn't work out. If we'd tried to get there Thursday or Friday I'd have called you to see if you were working somewhere around there.
Like the man said: "Ya's getts used to anything but hanging!" I've traveled over 150k miles on bicycles in my adult lifetime. I don't think about it much any more.
Would have been good to see you, for sure, Dennis. I thought about going to the RV show, also, but decided against it. Don't worry about those trees you felled, we will take care of those this April!
Indeed! I have 2 of them. Both Bachetta Bikes; a Giro 26 and a CA-2. I love those bikes as I simply can't ride the old style any longer as they beat up my body too much or maybe it is that my body is too beat up to ride them. Especially hard on my neck, wrists, elbows and shoulders.
