The last snow of the season?

Snow. Once again snow. Perhaps, though, with the weird and warm winter, this will be the last...

Landscape Architecture students in the forest

Several MLA students came out to the forest this morning to look at the area (mostly around the cabin) for the reason of doing some design options for potentially future build options.

They had several questions about the property, and they will likely be coming out to the forest in the future - singly or in groups. It's exciting to see the property being used for hands-on teaching purposes again.

Windy day and night

Gusty winds have been blowing much of today and are expected to continue tonight. I wonder how many trees I'll find downed after tonight...

Chopped up more trees

Seems like the wind storm of last Friday knocked down more than the power poles. I spend this morning cutting up five felled trees. Yeesh, these dead ash are ANNOYING!

On the plus side, the wind wasn't too bad, and the weather not too (I can't believe I'm writing this) hot. (It really has been one odd "winter" in the forest.)

Power restored

Power was restored at about 5:30pm on Monday afternoon/evening.

Power outage

Returning back to Saginaw Forest after a week in Arizona, I found no electricity. Turns out that the winds from (most likely) Friday felled a tree, which then pulled down the power line.

This morning, DTE came out to fix the problem, but I think that it might be a little bit too much for them to handle in one day, since they didn't yet have any poles on site. I guess that I'll have clean out the fridge and buy new food soon. Ah, well... it needed cleaning out anyway.

UPDATE: DTE was able to replace both poles and restore power by about 5:30pm.

Ice gone from lake

I don't know if this is the earliest time when Third Sister Lake, but there is no more ice on the lake. Not even a thin layer of it.

True, it never really set up at all this "winter", but it's amazing at how quickly it went away.