04.23.23 Grace is back & Nest is Getting Organized

Our weather has been super nasty the last week but Grace arrived and the process of reorganizing the nest began!

We went from 70 degree temps with snow melt running off the fields to brown grass and then back to snow and low temps. The only good thing about the low temps is that it is helping control the runoff in the rivers. Moose Lake had a pretty good size dike on the back side of the brewery road. It took a lot of manpower but they stayed ahead of it and it seems to be receding now. Island Lake is up as I saw water was nearing some cabins that were closer to the lake. I saw one cabin had sandbagged.

The birds are used to our weather and somehow they fly around every morning, singing! I wish we could learn a little more optimism from them. There is one pair of geese hanging out, geese aren’t our favorite at the farm as they are so messy but it is fun to watch one pair of them hang out together, swimming in the pond (which is now mostly open) and eventually having their family around pond. We saw a couple of deer the other night come into the house yard to take advantage of some pretty green grass, usually we see a large family so not sure what happened to the family this winter. We haven’t seen the turkeys in a few weeks, they must have moved on. Our neighbor said he spotted like 40 turkey in a nearby field at the beginning of this month. There is a lot of the landscape that got effected this year by heavy snow and winds, we see it on the pine trees, the hard woods and even to the wild bushes that grow in the ditches. Lots of trees to trim up. On those two 70 degree days the maple tree, out front, bloomed out with leaf buds, it too, is waiting for warmer temps to further leaf out!