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Warm Spring Hike Along The Slate River

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Was a nice day for a hike in one of my favorite areas, the Slate River near Quartzite Falls and a number of other falls up stream, including one of my favorite spots of all, Grand Staircase Falls.
I drove up Arvon Rd. to All Wood Rd, crossed the bridge and parked. I started off checking out Quartzite Falls, but it was still mostly frozen over still, so I hiked back up to the road and started heading up stream, this was my original plan anyway.
I followed a deer path knowing it would be packed down. Every time I happen to step off that path, I sank in the snow past my knee. Then as I rounded a bend in the river, there it was, my spot, Grand Staircase Falls. Took off my gear, took some photos and just relaxed.

Grand Staircase Falls – Slate River

Quartzite Falls is still mostly frozen over

Along the Slate River

My Hiking Path along the Slate River

Roads can be muddy this time of year

Yard Work

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10:30 AM and a sunny warm 51°F and rising fast.
I have half my yard work done and hauled to the burn pile. Trying to do as much as I can in the open non-snowy spots. I have to roll it down early before the snow gets too soft to pull the cart over it, as the snow can still be close to 2 feet deep in areas.

Update 3:15 PM – Well, I got quite a bit done today, on a day I didn’t know what I was going to do. I got an area that needed weeding and cleaning since moving here, the pile from earlier, and raked up some sections of the back yard that didn’t have snow but did have quite a bit ( a winter’s worth) of dog shit and bird seed shells. I even got the lawn tractor out to cut down some weeds in the earlier spot that needed cleaning up.
Not much more I can do at this point in time, too much snow on the ground. Either way, was a pretty productive day and I feel good about it. Tomorrow I think I’ll go check out a waterfall or two.

Path down to burn pile

Snow depth of 22.5″ at the burn pile

Garbage News

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Yeah, news about garbage. To make a long story a little shorter, I have an out building (barn) full of household trash/garbage. Now the reason for this is part laziness and part no garbage pickup in this area. So since owning the place, we started out just being here every other weekend, so we just put the garbage in the barn. Then we moved here and kept forgetting that Saturday is the day to take the garbage down the road to where a truck is for a couple hours for everyone in the area to drop off their garbage at $2.00 a bag. So as time went on, the garbage was piling up, and up. Well, after calling many places for either curb-side pickup or dumpster drop-off, everyone said no, they don’t do that. So today thought I’d call KBIC again to see if they would/could do something for me, and they said yes. Yay! They can’t drop a dumpster off until the first week in May, but that’s fine, it give the ground some time to dry and firm up where it will be place. The real good thing is the price, $100 total for the drop-off and pickup.
This is the best news I’ve had in close to a year.

Piss On It

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That’s what I said today, piss on it. I didn’t go out for a drive, the winds were a bit too much and making the windchill down near 0°F. Around 8:00 AM I did drive into Houghton to stop at WallyWorld, that’s the only time I’ll go there, early in the morning before the morons get there, to pick up a couple things, but that it for a drive. Oh, I did get a couple gas cans filled just in case of a power outage tomorrow with the heavy snow that’s forecasted. Other than that, I haven’t really done a damn thing today. Very fucking boring with no-one to talk to or look forward to talk to.

Huron River Hike

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Today, finally today I was able to get out for a hike. It was oh so needed. I headed out to hike along the Slate River near Black Slate Falls and Quartzite Falls, but the river was still mostly iced over. Big disappointment. So, I headed up to the Huron River near Big Erick’s Falls.
I parked Hank (the Jeep) and started walking down river, stopping many times for photos in the usual spots, only this time I was able to walk out on the snow/ice a bit toward the middle of the river. That was pretty cool.
The temp was about 40°F, so I didn’t want to stop yet, as my plan was to hike a bit, so I carried on. There was a path to follow on top of the snow, yes on top, no sinking in. I followed the path stopping here and there for another photo or just to take it in. I hiked for about 2 miles down river until my foot was hurting too much and it looked like I might be heading into the thick, so I turned around and headed back.
All in all, was a nice hike and it sure is great to be out on the rivers and woods again.

Big Erick’s Bridge over the Huron River

Huron River

Huron River

Huron River

Huron River

Huron River hike path – Google Earth map.

Young Buck

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This little guy came up pretty close to my front door yesterday. He was eating some of the old rose hips on the bushes along the entry walk. I’ve been seeing him alone lately, so I wonder if he lost his mother.

The Beginning

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Today I was able to get some digging done along the brick wall where I’m planting Morning Glories and Giant Moonflowers. This wall gets a lot of sun, so the soil was warm and soft, even with the temps being quite a bit below normal. 

Morning Glories