Saturday, 7:30 AM. 46 degrees, wind WNW, gusty. The sky is overcast and the barometer predicts rain. Yesterday was a true spring day.
Another half-day’s work and I will be done with spring yard and garden cleanup. It will have to wait though, as I am accompanying Andy and Judy to a Big Ravine Committee meeting this morning to ensure that Andy’s dad, who was instrumental in establishing the area in the 1960’s, is properly recognized on new signs.
Tyler’s birthday party was a great success, and he ate two pieces of birthday cake. His parents, grandparents, little brother Luke and uncle Eric all were there, with Joan and I as guests. Tyler got a “long" skate board for his birthday. Wear your helmet, dude!
The maple sugar season is over, the spiles being pulled from the trees yesterday, and only some last cooking and the cleanup left to do. The small tapping holes in the trees will soon heal over and the trees can be tapped next year in a slightly different spot on their trunks, and so on indefinitely. Maple trees are like dairy cows, and are about as much work, but at least they don’t need a barn.
The lupines are poking up all over, and in about two months will present a riot of bloom throughout the Bayfield region.
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