Les grande vacances (day # 55) Mother’s Day 2020; a view of one of the beaver dams on the inlet stream to the beaverbog in the back woods. The beavers have patched up the dam in the last few weeks. The dam is quite effective since the water level behind it is at the dam’s height. This height is enough to flood the trail bridge (bridge echo) behind it, preventing us from going further east on the snowmachine trail.
As long as we keep getting steady rain, the water level will remain high enough to prevent us from proceeding along the trail. The good news is that rainfall rates should diminish and the growing forest greenery will begin soaking up more and more water.
Along this stream, we have seen wood ducks and at least one beaver on repeated occasions.
Day 54: we are adjusting the new Trump Show theme music to “Live and Let Snow” here in the great state of Maine. I am guessing that Mother Nature has ordered the quarantining of Good Spring Weather. We don’t know where it is sheltering but it is not here. It has been suggested we will get “1 to 3 inches.”
Tried to go to Sam’s this week, but the line was too long.
Went to the town transfer station (used to be called “the dump”) for first time in several weeks. Not sure how they got wrapped up in the “non-essential” vs. “essential” business designation in Maine’s pandemic emergency orders, but it has been closed over the last several weeks. To me, the dump is essential to my retirement goal of decluttering physically and mentally.
