Up North With Mel

Wednesday

tips ~

I need to go buy this book for Dear Hubby!

I heard it's only volume 1 out of 5 ...

... but it's also a picture book so men can understand it.

Seriously, I wonder what that book is really about?? I saw the picture on FB and just thought I'd share :)

I really can't complain in this department ... Dear Hubby does like to help out in the kitchen with cooking and the dishes :)

Ha! I might have to try this one.

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There isn't much going on around here.

We did go and buy a new front door for the house; but it's been too cold to install it. Plus ... we're suppose to get another foot of snow or more !!! Crazy crazy weather we're having this spring.

Look at the snow prediction for Park Falls ~ that's me... bring it on Old Man Winter ... bring it on!! I give in!!!! You win!!!!

So instead of being outside enjoying the beautiful weather ~ I sit and putter around with inside spring cleaning - because as soon as it warms up and the ground thaws ... I'm outta here!!!

Until next time ...

So it goes in my neck of the woods.

~mel

Tuesday

I've been getting a few phone calls from people who have summer cabins up in my neck of the woods. They all ask the same thing. "Do you still have snow up there?" The answer is YES!!! And NO you can not get into your place yet, unless you plan on coming with a four wheel drive truck with a plow attached to it.

Here's how much I still have in my yard.

That snowbank behind the deer is about 10 feet high! It'll probably still be there in June!!

It is melting by the driveway and the sidewalk is finally cleared off. Also around the base of some of the trees it has melted off; but the majority of it is still here.

We need a good rain and some more sunny days before this is gone.

Last fall the snow came upon us so quickly I didn't have time to take the pumpkins out of the planters, which I had sitting in there for decoration beside the door. I did carry a couple of them down to the deer ... but they were so mushy from being frozen and were still covered with a lot of snow that I decided to put that little chore off to another day.

Well...

Chubby couldn't wait any longer for me to take them to him ...

... he came up to the house and helped himself.

While Chubby was up here munching on mushy pumpkins ... this bugger was pruning my arbor vitae tree.

Slim said it won't be long and I'll be complaining about the critters eating my flowers! He's right too. Once I stop feeding them in the yard they'll be off to the woods again for the summer months. I'll miss the daily visits. But until the snow is gone ... they still have free roam without me complaining.

Until next time ...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel