1/09/09 WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY

Friday, 7:45 AM. 0 degrees, wind WSW, calm. The sky is partly cloudy and clearing, and the barometer predicts sunny skies.
The roar of the big wind sled’s twin airplane engines permeated the house as I was putting on my boots this morning. But with this cold the ice road will soon be open and the wind sled season over. There are other means of getting across the ice now as well, snowmobiles and ATVs sprint across, and at least a hundred Island cars are now parked on the mainland, waiting for their owners to cross over and go about their business. Traffic is not just one-way, though, as a number of people, tradesmen, etc. travel the opposite direction. And of course high school students come from the Island every day on the wind sled. I assume some have their own snowmobiles as well. The other evening I saw a young man come across on his snowmobile and then walk up to the library.
In all of this activity, it occurs to me that the most important thing is that all these vehicles start and run well. Fifty years ago batteries would be dead and engines flooded on a regular basis.
Lots of business to take care of today, including helping to move the Bayfield Regional Conservancy office to its new location, a badly needed thing, which will usher in a new era of opportunity and service for our award winning land trust.