They say if you don't like the weather in Wisconsin ... wait 5 minutes ... it'll change!
Yesterday our snow was gone ... you could finally see the grass ... then we wake this morning to another 'dusting' of snow.
Looking out my window ...
Trapperman Slim even shoveled for me this morning before leaving to check the trapline ... which he or Sam does daily; besides putting in their 12 hour shifts at work.
Yesterday I rode along with him on his trap line. He has about a 100 mile line out this spring for the pesky beaver that keep flooding over the roads. Believe me ... it's a rough ride over some pretty muddy roads!
Here's a few pics from the day .... (sorry for the photo overload)
Lovin' Slim's reflection in the calm waters on this one:
... another flooded over road ...
I'm always looking at rocks ... I wish I was strong enough to load this one into the truck ... it would look awesome in my flower bed :)
~ wild rose hips ... G'm used to make tea out them.
~this isn't even a bad muddy spot ... but average of what the roads look like. I can only imagine what they look like today after all the snow last night.
~ another rock I would love to bring home ~
yes... 100 miles of roads like this ...
This is the smoothest road of the whole trip ... about 10 miles like this.
My pooped out trapperman ...
I know the townships appreciate his trapping efforts to help keep the beaver population in control in these areas ... it save's them thousands of dollars in road repairs each year ... just from having to haul in their heavy equipment to replace culverts alone.
Slim has a sit down job at the paper mill monitoring computers all day and he really enjoys getting out in the spring and fall to trap. He says he does it for the exercise. By the looks of his belly ... I tease ... he needs to do it more often! LOL
I should talk!!!
Until next time ...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel
