October 2005
October 25th, 2005 (I did this up but forgot to post it)
This is the first heavy snow of the season. We have about 5 inches so far tonight. It is still coming down in good shape. The wind is picking up and the trees are coming down all around here. I can hear them breaking off out in the woods. I have gone out to check camps several times and to see what damage there has been. It is snowing so hard that I cannot see much, even with a flashlight. I wonder how I will be able to get out tomorrow morning as I have to be in Bangor by 09:00. I will have to take my chain saw to cut my way out. If it warms up some perhaps the snow will fall off the trees rather than bring them down across the road. When I went out to make phone calls tonight, I had to cut 3 out of the road before I could get back home.
I plan to take pictures tomorrow on my way out. There was not hardly any snow down on Power House hill, just a little slush on the road. We are just enough higher in elevation to make the difference as to whether we get snow or rain. Usually there is a significant amount of difference up here. When you get down to Rip, it usually has much less snow. It only seems to make the biggest difference in the fall and spring. during the winter months, the snow fall amount line is up the road a bit further.
GT
October 23rd, 2005
A rainy day here at camp. Many of the leaves have fallen off the trees with the wind and rain. Yesterday I could hear one of the juvenile loons calling on the pond. They have a kind of funny hoot when they are younger. We have had a couple of very cool nights here. The frost was laying very thick on the ground. One day last week it was actually spitting snow up here. Katahdin has snow on top, but hey, it is almost November! The squirrels are gathering all they can for the winter months ahead. Jed picked up a small trash can full of Hickory nuts and brought them up with him the last time he and Maureen was here. I put them in the barn and forgot about them for a week. When I went in I noticed that the squirrels had cleaned up every last one of them! I told him to gather another can or two of them in his spare time. Deer hunting season starts next weekend for all of those who participate in that. Grouse season runs until the end of December, although not many people go then. Soon it will be time to put on the snow shoes and go stomping around in the woods. I need to get out to do more of that this year as I am sure that it must be good for me. As I look out the window at the trees I notice that now where there was once green, and then all of the colors of fall, now there are just the gray fingers of the tree limbs. It is always a bit sad to see this change take place, yet I still look forward to it. It takes a bit of time to get used to, but the changing of the seasons is a part of what I love about Maine. I cannot imagine living any place else, especially where the seasons are not as much of a drastic change. Each season offers something new for us to enjoy, we just have to remember how to enjoy it.
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Katahdin's 1st Looking up Rip from the dam
snow of the season
Rip lake is almost full once again this year. It is strange to see the lakes this full at this time of year. In years past the water has been down 20 feet or more. I bet the power company is very happy about having all of this water. It should make for good traveling on the ice this winter. The ice fishing on this body of water is very productive. But hey, ice fishing is still a couple of months away.
GT
October 11th, 2005
What a great fall this has been. The weather has been warm, almost too warm last week. It has cooled down again and feels more like fall this week. We had some rain over the holiday weekend, but we still had guests climb Katahdin on Sunday. During the warm spell last week, and I mean up in the higher 70's, I took a few minutes to sit down at the dock and relax. The pond was absolutely calm on this shore, the leaves were brilliant, there was a slight breeze blowing through the tree tops. I could hear a Raven croaking and the loons were swimming around the pond. The fish were jumping up and making splashes all around the dock. Now that folks was a few minutes of pure heaven. I only wish I could have spent the entire afternoon sitting there. We have had our first good heavy frosts now and the garden is history! One of these years I am going to remember to cover it when they are calling for the cold nights. (I am much better at covering my wife's flowers!) Just now the loons have started calling out on the pond. It is almost midnight and they might carry on for an hour or more. Soon they will be headed to their wintering waters in the ocean. Partridge season is upon us and I did manage to get Jed out for few hours this past weekend. This is his first year of having a hunting license and he was eager to find a partridge. He just loves Partridge Nuggets and I am sure that none will taste as good as the first bird he gets. When we did not find any, he was mildly disappointed. He had it all figured out though. He said that all the partridge knew that he could hunt this year and were hiding from him! I assured him that we would get out again before the season is over. The fire in the kitchen cook stove sure feels good tonight. The temps are down in the 30's and we may get a frost again tonight. (Yes Honey, I have the flowers covered) Below are a couple of pictures that I took while out and about. I need to take more pictures of the foliage, but I spend my time enjoying it instead of taking pictures!
GT
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