Whoa!

Hard to believe its been 8 months since I was last on here...crazy. But its been a good 8 months! Moved home, got the best job ever, bought a house, got married, inherited two great kids...the list goes on and on! Maybe now I will have some free time to make this stupid thing worth reading... ;)

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So, I really really really wanted to see a moose while I worked here in Baraga. I drove around popular moose areas in search of the illusive largest member of the deer family. Unfortunately, unless I can find one in the next 20 hours, I am probably out of luck on that one. Now that I have said that, watch me hit one with my car on the way out of town tomorrow...crap.

Two of our wonderful forester guys, Brad and Jason, were out setting corners today and found not one, but two moose antlers! Upon first inspection it looks like a pair, and they found them close together- but its actually from two separate critters. How cool! I am insanely jealous...

Hhhhmmm just a note moose gods, if you are listening...tomorrow is my last day in Baraga...just one little ole moose please?????

Long time no see...

So I was reminded today that I have been a depressed loser for the past two months and have neglected my blog (thanks Vaas). So here goes!

So remember how I mentioned earlier that one of my favorite falls were Munising Falls, especially in the winter time? I made a stop there back in January on my way downstate one evening, and when I snowshoed back in was surprised to find that the falls were not even really frozen yet! But that made from some pretty cool photos, and now I can say that I have seen these falls in various states of awesomeness ;)

 Yay snowshoes!

 I have seen these falls totally frozen, so to see them in the halfway stage being froze was pretty cool!

 It looked like a huge windchime, with all of the water flowing behind the outside shell of ice, making cool tinkling and cracking noises.

 So I will once again try to be better about this- maybe I will even stop at some cool places on my trip to move home tomorrow for more pics! I actually have a whole slug of cool UP pics that I should inundate this blog with...  :)

What I did on my Christmas vacation...

Enjoyed the hell out of everyday, that's what I did! I got to spend a couple of days of quality time with the family (check the next post for that!), didn't think about the yucky things in life too much, saw some good friends, spent lots of quality time with the boy, caught some fishes, and remembered how lucky I am to be surrounded by ya'll <3

There is one thing that living in Baraga has made me realize- I have a kick ass life. When I am home I do great things, go fun places, and spend time with people who are absolutely incredibly awesome- and yes I miss that terribly.

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger."

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888 German philosopher (1844 - 1900)