cabin fever?

[mitchmaine]

9 below zero last thursday. 40 above on saturday. now its in the 20’s and has been snowing three days. i dug out the scoot yesterday and found i had forgot to pull it up on anything. it froze into saturdays mud. i broke it out with a peavey and pulled it up on some brush so it’s ok but i just can’t seem to get out of my own way. is it too soon for cabin fever? six weeks til sugaring. thank you vicki for that great photo of the fellow plowing on this mornings bar. that seemed to help.

[near horse]

In our neck of the woods we’ve had the mildest winter in a long time – last year at this time ~ 90+ inches of snow. This year maybe 12 total and none on the ground in the last month. All melted and now the puddles have even dried up. I’d take this weather in mid April. Some folks already seeing robins in their yards!

What next?

[Carl Russell]

Rain for us… Sunday… Maybe an inch, then arctic blast again. Guess I gotta put on the sharp caulked shoes!! Hopefully the ground will stay frozen….Lot’s of good logging weather left.

Carl

[jac]

Hi guys. Over here in Scotland we just had the hardest winter in 10 years. – 12 and a foot of snow for about 6 weeks. It was great. The horses seem to do so much better when the air is crisp and cold as opposed to damp and muggy. The weather really is all over the place worldwide. Mother nature does seem to be trying to tell us something. Cheers
John

[mitchmaine]

reminds me of a saying. you’ve probably heard it. “ground hogs day, ground hogs day, half your wood, half your hay”. i can judge from here that even by then we will be in good shape. inspite of a poor summer, we must be having a mild winter. i should have hay for sale and firewood left over. sorry for whining. the sun came out and i feel much better. but it sounds like your comments that each of you are having a different winter than you expected. the maple people are telling us that in our lifetimes, maine may become the southern edge of the maple syrup world. maybe not my lifetime but a hard thing to imagine anyway. the adjustments for all of us may be very different.

[jac]

Over here in Scotland we have been told that the west of Scotland, which is where I am, is to get milder and wetter !!! while down south of England is going to see droughts.. I often wonder how much of this is human damage or a natural change or a mix of both.. The Romans used to grow grapes in northern England and Scotland had mosquitos ???
John

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