Nov 17 2022

New snow, not enough to ski on. But looking good.

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By Wednesday morning there was 1 -2 inches of wet snow on the ground. The rest of Wednesday was freezing rain, rain and quite miserable, and not very pretty.

This morning (Thursday) it started to snow, lake effect snow. It snowed off and on all day, for a daily grand total of, about an inch. But the temperatures are colder, about 30º. It’s pretty snow. When I step on the snow today I don’t go thru to mud or grass, we can call it “developing base.”

What we need so we can get some skiing going, the temperature to stay cold, and more snow!

Nov 14 2022

Snow in the forecast. Time to think about your season pass?!

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All of a sudden the warm fall temperatures are gone and winter seems to be making an appearance. Snow is in the forecast. As of Monday afternoon The Weather Channel is saying 3-5 inches, Tuesday night and 3-5 inches Wednesday. The National Weather Service is saying 1-2 inches and then mixed precipitation on Wednesday. The Skiology Community page is saying 4-6 inches of snow. So we will end up with something. As Chuck would say, “I’ll tell you on Wednesday afternoon how much it snowed.”

The snow tires are on our car. The truck goes to get it’s snow tires on Wednesday, road conditions allowing. This year we have been working on picking up outside for days. The long fall gave us ample opportunity to get the spring/summer/fall picked up and not have too many surprises next spring. Yet, we still found items to pick up this morning. Moving some picnic tables, moving some culverts, picking up cones. You have your own list I’m sure. Those were all things on my list I can cross off.

If you buy a season pass here’s your reminder. (Online link.) Put it on your list, buy the pass and you can cross it off!

Fingers crossed, skiing soon!

Nov 10 2022

What’s been happening here!

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Did a little painting and gave the barn a face lift. It was so dry, the wood soaked up gallons of stain!

Ian spent a lot of time in the excavator this summer and fall, continuing to smooth, flatten, dig out rocks, build ditches and put in culverts. This is on the first section of the Woodcock, he even worked on “the first hill”.

The excavator needs a name, you know something like Mike Mulligan and Mary Ann. Ian and ???

This was/is my pile of wood to cut, and then, my split pile of wood. I really felt like I was getting the logs cut up and the log pile was shrinking. About that time, my good friend Willie piled some more logs on the log pile. This wood is all cut to 16 inches and is for the 2 barn stoves, the sauna, Gretchen & Ben’s new wood stove, and the fire pit. I processed about 7 cords, and best guess, still have 3 or 4 cords to move and stack.

My September and October days at the office! Time to mow the trails! Peach loves going in the woods with us, and hangs out at the four-wheeler, just waiting for me to get done with the job.

This photo shows why I love mowing ski trails. Looking behind me and seeing the ribbon of leaves trailing thru the woods. And my favorite trail to be on in October, the Upper Blue Jay.

Mar 16 2022

Closed for skiing. We are boiling maple syrup today.

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We are closed for skiing. 31º at 7am. There was a little rain overnight and a little bit slippery out there. The sun is trying to shine though the clouds. The high temperature is suppose to be around 50º with sunshine.

It is a beautiful day to make maple syrup.

By noon the evaporator should be going strong. Chuck is gathering the tubing barrels now. The buckets about 8:30. And then we will fire up the evaporator. We welcome visitors! Bring pickles.

FYI–The sugar house is up the hill from the barn and behind the red house.

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