March 18 " Let's go swimming?"

Holy smokes...... where did winter go? Just 2 weeks ago we were snowed in and this week kids are running around in 80 degree weather wanting to go to the beach!!!!

We even slept with windows open last night. Crazy stuff. Saturday was ok, waaaaay tooooo tired to do much, we hit the stores and had lunch at G's, but rest of day was spent in slumber, slow motion. We all slept in on Sunday, wake me up at 7am, rush to get to church and all. Made our first camp breakfast and had eggs with sausages. Cinnamon rolls for snack.

Hauled 6 tarploads to the back woods, kids earned 5 bucks helping to rake the side yard. Also installed 3 sheets of blue board and finished the trim out for the rest of the north wall. This will probably be the first wall we side with the cement board. Swept out the cabin and cleaned up all the winter mess. Dumped out the ashes in the stove.

This picture is my leg in shorts in March at the cabin.

The raking crew. We need 4 more sheets of blue board to finish this wall.

Hey it's still winter up here!!!

Weather reports were deceiving, night time temps were expected to be 28-30 degrees, high enough that we can camp out without too much difficulty from cold temps. The actual weather though was a good storm that brought about 6 to 10 inches of new snow to the HL area. Grayling got 13 inches and Gaylord reported up to 17 inches of snow. We were driving up and just north of Harrison road conditions really switched , one moment wet roads from constant rain then the next a good covering of slush. By the time we hit exit 189 it was snow pack.

These pictures are from the morning after. We left snow pants and such home ( who needs snow clothes when Spring is just around the corner??) Power outages were common, we missed the tree falling on our power by about 4 cabins so we had electric.

Going home on Saturday the roads were mostly plowed but COLD temps were coming and we left a little early to make sure we had good driving and no ice slicks. Not much work done, we played in the snow, made lunch and such. Took time to enjoy the place. The kids are getting good at hitting targets with the bb gun.

Dogs are looking for the ball, it sank into the snow and Hunter is digging it out. Snow was at least 24 inches deep and dogs were not running away today!! We dugout the driveway to get into the drive on Friday night but paid to have it plowed out so when it froze it was cleaned out if it doesn't melt by the time we get up again.