Spring has finally arrived!!!

The last few days have been absolutely excellent with sunny skies and high temps. Not enough, yet, to melt all the snow but we are making progress. Even today I wouldn't attempt to drive our truck down any of the two tracks in fear of getting stuck in the snow. The snow piles in the yard are getting down under four feet.  That's a bunch of snow, but things are certainly looking spring-like.

The county road commission will only be going through and opening up just two of the seasonal roads this year. They spent so much of their budget dealing with the winter that the funds are just not there as in years past. This will be the first year since we have been here (1992) that we haven't seen all the roads opened up by the county. (If you're interested, here's info on the County Road Assn of Michigan, that's right, CRAM)

So yesterday they punched a hole through to Grand Marais and today they hope to get County Road 410 opened up to the Reed and Green Bridge State Forest Campground. This will allow the fishermen to get to the river as trout season opens up this weekend. These fishermen and women will have a tough go at this weekend as water is way up due to run offs and will probably stay that way for another week or two.

Muskallonge Lake is now open for the most part.  There are a lot of migrating ducks flying around, as well as several different species of sandpipers and geese. And, yesterday we had three Trumpeter Swans visit the lake and rest up before heading out to the north. Kingfishers are back, Warblers are coming in, Sandhill Cranes are going through in bunches and of course the raccoons and skunks are now out making their presence known. Plus, the agates hunters are out looking for rocks again.

It sure is nice to be able to walk or work outside without a jacket or heavy boots.  We heard yesterday that the unofficial snow amount for Grand Marais was over 280 inches. That's a bunch of work no matter how you do it!!!!

We now have the store open and we are ready to go.  We still have several openings throughout the month of May and a few scattered openings throughout the rest of the summer.  Give us a call if you are planning a trip.

Call (906) 658-3341 for information and to make your reservation.

Hope to see you up north!!!

Mike & Monica