Renters Are Coming

This scene always cracks me up.

We have renters coming tomorrow so we are getting things ready for them. Steve is hauling barrels of fresh water from our house's well to the cabin for the renters to use.

The cabin is totally equipped and plumbed for running water - hot or cold - but we don't have a well down there so Steve transports and it all goes well.

Pun intended. Ha.

Off he goes down the snowmobile trail a mile and a half to the cabin on the river.

If you want to check out our rental cabin you can see it here.

More Pics of Grooming the Trails and Ramblings About My Treadmill

    I love to ride along with Steve when it's his turn to groom after we get fresh snow.

And I especially like it when the sky has some color.

The view from my perch.

And every now and then we run into (not literally or on purpose) snowmobilers on the trail who are happy to see us.

Just so pretty.

Steve is out grooming tonight. I told him I better stay back and catch up on a few things. Steve had a cold last week and I woke up with it Saturday morning. 

I started walking the treadmill last week (after I removed the dog beds, Steve's old coats, fold-up chairs in bags, blew the dust off everything, and moved a large box Steve had set against it) while grumbling under my breath. I told Steve yesterday I think the silly contraption gets me sick. He rolled his eyes.

Okay, I need to work on my delivery speech when I walk into the garage and approach the treadmill. We need to be friends. We need to get along and play well together. I let the treadmill have its space today as it was gorgeous so the four of us - Steve, Ike, Bear and myself - walked to the mailbox and back and it was sunny and 39 degrees F and no breeze whatsoever.

Tomorrow maybe I'll bring a plate of cookies into the garage.Wait, treadmill is a machine and I like cookies and that would be counterintuitive - I'd be spending more time with treadmill in the long run/walk. But if treadmill is just a mechanical contraption why do I feel tired and sore after spending time with it? Treadmill gets to hear me sing, blurt out comments to the true crime podcasts I listen to, and silently groan when I realize I've only been walking for 10 minutes.

The Sun is Shining!

It is a beautiful sunny day in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan! 

Do you see the snow/ice in the above picture ready to slide off our roof?

So often we don't see the sun and the sky will match the grayness of the ground and there won't be any color - only hues of grey it seems. But today is bright, the sky is blue, the trees all received a fresh blanket of snow from the other night's "snowstorm". We were suppose to receive 6-7 inches but actually only three inches fell, however it lightly snowed yesterday and last evening so we maybe have another inch. The snowmobile trails are in great shape but probably won't be by the time the weekend is over. The I-500 snowmobile race is this weekend in the Soo and the trails are already getting busy.

But the sun is shining!

Steve has been out plowing.

Ike and Bear are taking a nap in front of the wood burner.

They had enough playtime this morning as you can tell by all of the paw prints in the picture before this one.

Our backyard snow pile.

We are off to the Soo to run a few errands and to check out all the town's activities and excitement for the upcoming race. I'm taking my camera so you might get to see some of the fun, too.

And I'm still working on those deer photos. I finally sorted through the 200 I took over the last couple of weeks!

And I rode along again with Steve in the groomer last night through the Hiawatha National Forest after the recent snow. I'll share those photos tomorrow or Saturday.

Love,

Debi