Free at last!

Came back last night after a short time away, and woke up this morning to the sound of a grouse doing his mating “drumming“. (If my clever link doesn’t work for you, try going here and look for the little “play” control.) When I looked out the kitchen window I saw that, miraculously, the last of the snow covering the path into the woods had melted in the recent rains.

So, time to walk the dogs; down through the woods, around the (still mostly frozen) pond to the Hidden Springs pumphouse and back via the Class IV road. The girls were thrilled to visit (by nose) all the places they’d been missing the past couple of months. Sugaring may be over (in southern Vermont at least) but the best part of Spring is only just arriving.