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Sheesh! Winter ain't over if Dwight stuck his finger in a socket and Cecil is having to use old photos.

But, based on Dwight's



WE SAW THE BOTTOM OF OUR SNOW GAUAGE THIS MORNING!!!! It has been a long time since we've seen it.

To make it better or worse, this is probably the worst mud season I've seen since the 1950s. For the last several weeks, in between heavy snows, the temps have been going into the +/- single digits at night, with many days above freezing. The melting snows, frost down a a few feet, and a few inches of thawing mud/gravel on top of the driveway, has made life kind of miserable.

I tried to bring some of the gravel back onto the driveway this afternoon, after pushing most of the gravel into the ditches with each snow storm this winter. Bad mistake!

It took me over an hour to pull out my 4x4 tractor, sunk in mud above the front and rear axles, in fully saturated mud.

It took another hour to prepare and weld one of the 12 inch long by 1.25"x1.25" square bucket teeth back onto the front end loader after it broke off from a tow chain around it and several other teeth.

It will be interesting to see how many fish survived in my ponds if/when the ponds thaw. I took a chance yesterday to see if I could open a hole on the sunbaked side of the main pond. I drove the tractor to the edge of the ice. I curled the front end bucket down so that the teeth were pointing straight down onto the ice. I lifted the front of the tractor, on the front end loader teeth. They never penetrated the ice. I tried to drive the tractor forward and backward, with the teeth still on the ice. I made a few scratches in the ice, and some ruts on the bank with the tractor's rear wheels.

I'm usually getting ready to put in my onions, potatoes, peas, spinach, etc., into the garden at this time of year.

Oh well. That's life.

Ken,

We are expecting a significant accumulation of snow Tuesday night into Wednesday after a tease of the 50's Monday and during the day Tuesday. And we are just now seeing bare ground!

You seem to have verified the sweater still exists, so we're halfway home. Let's get that puppy on the auction block - and hopefully get to finally meet you maybe at the next convention in Fall 2014.

My sweaters make me look fat Cecil.... but that fish makes you look skinny . Nice fish!!!

Dwight, I apologize for the hijacking .

Trust me no body wants an old sweater that I wear in the taxidermy shop that is all crusty now in the front especially from the likes of me!

Yeah Dwight sorry for the hijack!

D - I respectfully neglect to offer an apology for hijacking.