I’ve been getting each dog out for a half an hour every afternoon. It is good for all of us to run around (in my case amble around) in the woods a little each day. The pointers are finding a few woodcock but not as many as we hear on our walk in the mornings. Each day the snow goes a little more, on Sunday it was well over my knee boots in the woods and this afternoon there are patches of no snow and it is not over the tops of my boots anywhere. The last couple of afternoons have been warm and breezy (nearly 50 degrees) after a cold and damp weekend it feels great to have the sun.
I spent a great deal of time last winter working on a merger of the Maine Conservation School with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. There were a thousand details to work out in this merger and as with most things it took way more time and energy than I imagined. But at the end of the process I think that the future is bright for the programs at the Maine Conservation School and the kids that we all want to teach about their natural resources.
Slowly the snow is starting to recede, first the edges of the fields show through and then gradually I can see the areas of brown grow. Hopefully this slow melting trend continues with all of the snow here and further north the last thing we need is a rapid melt, the resulting flooding would be a big problem. The days are moderating and a sunny day is a real treat. The cold has really lost its bite even though many mornings are still below freezing.
