“Once upon a time” in the long winter of 2010/2011 we must have lost our minds- or at least the capacity to think rationally. The story goes like this: We were channel surfing and came across a Peter Yarrow Special on TPT (Twin Cities Public Television) We don’t watch TPT too often, but […]
The Long Minnesota Winter
April 14, 2011 by
The ice is slowly breaking up and melting. Â Â Â Â Â Open water looks great! We lost a lot of ice over night. Lake Florida is probably 50% ice free. We were relieved when we got up this morning that the ice wasn’t piled 10 feet high on our beach and yard. Ice out […]
The Long Minnesota Winter
April 13, 2011 by
Most of us living here in Minnesota have had enough of winter. A couple of times in the last few weeks it has appeared to be “almost” over and then we get another little blast of snow and/or cold. Yesterday it started out in the low 30’s and by mid afternoon it was 68 degrees! […]
The Long Minnesota Winter!
March 28, 2011 by
The long Minnesota winter keeps rolling along! Last Tuesday night the cabins and resort were blanketed with about 9 more inches of heavy, wet snow! Even our tractor/snow blower is tired of winter. It has aches and pains and really would like to be finished. The tractor is eagerly waiting the snow blower being taken […]
The long Minnesota winter
March 13, 2011 by
It seems that the long Minnesota winter just got even longer! “There’s one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor’s.” – Clyde Moore Yesterday, my brother David came with his snowmobiles and he and Bob went out on the trails for 5 hours. Before they left I checked […]
A Day in the Life of a Resort Owner
February 12, 2011 by
It seems we have turned a corner in the weather department. The temperature was 20 above when we got up this morning. We haven’t seen morning temperatures above zero for quite awhile. We blew snow for a couple of hours. We wanted to get things cleaned up so the melting would go faster. The rest […]
