Hi all. Way too much to go into all the nitty gritty details. We've visited with the Husband's side of the family and had loads of fun. Rode the old go cart, played on the farm with all the young critters, visited parks/playgrounds and the zoo, played cards, walked through farm fields, and watched some awesome thunderstorms rolling in. I attempted to catch some of the storms on 'video'. Hope you can see some of the lightning. It was really awesome.
We're now 'really Up North' visiting with my family and working on the two family tree farms. The Husband has had really good fun on an old model A John Deere mowing the logging trails. We met with a forester a day ago - good stuff. Discussed with the forester truly future plans for the two farms - some of those plans won't come to fruition for another 20-30 years. Tree farming is truly a multi-generational process. We pulled a bunch of old wire fence out on the parents' farm with my Dad yesterday - hard work but deeply satisfying.
On the two tree farms, we've seen some excellent bear calling cards - tree stumps ripped open, fresh scat (ie poop), tracks, and the best....On my parents' farm, we saw a pine tree that had been clawed by a very large black bear. The sap was still dripping and black fur was stuck in it. Truly, awesome stuff. Then....when out roaming the property at dusk (in a John Deere Gator - not on foot), we heard something VERY large crashing through the brush. It didn't have the 'clump, clump' sound of a deer running through brush. So....it was loud enough it was probably our bear. Really cool stuff.
