G’s Spring

Very different this year. The snow stayed throughout April and the warm weather came and went on the wind, 70s one day, 40s the next. G continued snowmobiling and sledding as long as he could, then switched gears to help us chip ice off the driveway and spread snow piles around so they would melt faster. Spring fever for all of us. After a winter of this:

In between spring cleanup activities, G and his Dad started target shooting lessons. Wasn’t long before G could hit the can 9 out of 10 times. They started on one of Dad’s old BB guns, moved up to the 22 Uncle Brad brought for G, and added a BB gun G’s size later on. As with everything else he does with his Dad, G loved it. They both look forward to squirrel hunting in the coming fall.















As for mushrooming, we didn’t find but three or four morels all season. We didn't 'hunt' all that much honestly. We simply took a handful of nice hikes. Better for all of us if we trade in our mushroom hopes for the simple pleasure of inhaling spring, spying elk tracks, stumbling onto beautiful vistas and finding cool walking sticks.

What else? Oh, fishing. G left his Scooby Doo rod behind this year and moved up to the real deal. Thus far, he and his Dad have fished Grandma Wave’s canal, the river behind Mike’s cabin and the lake at Steve’s. Grandma Wave says G fishes with the concentration of a 10 year old.


With the spring melt, we were also able to get back on our bicycles, navigating bike paths still losing their snow.