well... my newest dilemma is the level of the water on my trail... I always have to drive through 10 feet of say 6 inch deep water... but after that rain I now have most of my trail under over a foot of water. I went back this morning to collect the sap from the other day (left it in the woods as it's way colder back there then up at the shack) and it occurred to me if I got stuck that I was completely surrounded in water deep than my boots!!! Hip waders will be mandatory gear tonight heading back to collect anything that runs. Hopefully the water recedes some today. Crazy thing is that it all has to exit about an 18 inch culvert at the road.. can't get the city to replace it but if they did with a nice big 4 footer there would probably never be water back there.

All the flood water had ice on it his morning of decent thickness so it must have been pretty cold my way.

snow is still hanging on in the woods... I really don't think we are that close to the end of the season .... unless the nights stay warm so it doesn't run. Radio forecast called for a couple nights below zero this week/weekend but it's not showing the same thing online.