Love is in the Air and Maple too.

Our Valentines tableau

Home made strawberry marshmellows

Love

Tap in snow

For an early flow!

Drip by Drip the sap will flow

Time to boil

My Timber Tableau

As the temperatures reached 55*

Jace and Dave stopped by to enjoy the afternoon boil

 

January Cold Snap!

After our false spring early in January, I managed to get out and wet a line just before our plunge into subzero weather.  no fish :(

We've been keeping an eye on the cats at Joan and Mart's

Our coldest morning started out at -17*  with wind chills dropping down to -45*

Jimmy and Deats came over today.

We got out for a frigid hike

Susie and I have been keeping warm experimenting with a new cocktail 

1934 Cosmopolitan

And our next false spring is right around the corner...

and so maple syrup time

Happy Birthday Bo!

 

Spring Training - It's time to start walking!

It's not always that warm or too easy to walk

Every now and then something catches your eye

Trail tree for this modern Indian

I kicked up a few deer that were still holding antlers

This one did not fair so well.  The yotes picked it pretty clean.

I pruned the grape vines

Salvaged a few blocks 

Removed some old rail road ties and 

Replaced them with the blocks

Bring on the weekend!

 

HAY! TAKE A HIKE.

Welcome to Iowa

Jump

run

climb

and hike

Now, get to work.

Lets eat

do you need help?

more greens

sad

Happy

time to open some gifts

look

WoW!

Were to hang it

The Goetschels

All Smiles

 

Home for Christmas

Home for Christmas

Sampling some of Grandma's Favorite

A Christmas hike with a special guest.

Not Santa it's even better.... It's Annabelle!

 

Soup!

We heated up the chapel in the subzero  weather on opening day of the second season

We were very comfortable  Beau ventured out several times 

But this year it was tag soup for dinner

 

Bam! and just like that it was Wimter

A early December snow storm dropped 12" of snow

So we got out for some snow shoeing 

my elf on a shelf

We were just alittle late for the lighting of the tree at the winter market

 off to the Dubuque symphony

Peace

a trip to the chaple

Elk creek with Jimmy

and Greeley.....

Really 

Winter is here