Someone is 12! Happy, happy day.
More beach days were found and this is why. Out here it was almost possible to forget what it looked like at home. The beach was such a wonderful escape from being buried in snow.
And on one trip I found a sand dollar while riding. I hopped right off and picked it up and managed to find a safe enough pocket to bring it home. I put it in the kitchen windowsill so that I would see it and remember the beach while looking out at snowstorm after snowstorm.
We spent a fair amount of time and energy digging out. It was beautiful though and often it was "real snow" with no crust.
Doing chores is more enjoyable when your black kitty follows you all around. Here he is on the daily trudge to the manure pile.
The views were fantastic though with sun breaking over the snow clad pines one morning. Blue skies were beginning to replace grey ones....
Here are the tracks of most likely a mink. It would bound along on the top of the snow for a bit and then tunnel for a while. Neat tracks.
And some snowshoeing which is an activity we all enjoyed this winter.
Could it be thawing? Is it more dirt than ice? Hard to tell but it must be thawing. Careful there King. Lots of ice still.
A week later it is decidedly thawing. The road is even getting some ruts from the tires. Mud is on it's way
A week later even we see the shoulder of a road. see...some dirt at the edge...Spring is on it's way. It must be....
Very muddy truck & trailer and even the horse's belly and legs got the mud spray. It is coming. I'm sure of it!
Later still the snow is releasing it's grip on the yard. Turkeys are grouping up. These hens came with this Tom each day for a couple of weeks until they all went their own ways to nest.
That little boy is now far too big for his little ATV. The 80 is just too small. So he's enjoy permission to use our 450. We hope to sell the little one and get a dirtbike instead. 
Okay, the end of April and sprig is really here! Spring peepers were singing in the woods and it's ice out on the big lakes. In another week or so this will all begin to look quite green....Spring at last!!
