In my last post, I lamented the fact that mid-Michigan was hit with an ice storm that made driving the trails pretty dumb. That was Friday.
Saturday, the ice was still here, but given that we lacked a number of kitchen staples, I made an early morning trip to the grocery store instead of the trails. Later that day, we got even more ice.
Sunday came, and guess what? ANOTHER day of freezing rain and ice. Meanwhile, an hour away in Lansing, a friend of ours said it was 46˚.
The trees of the Cul-De-Sac Shack, where bending and threatening to break, B’s car in the driveway was a hunk of solid ice, and just getting the mail resulted in ass puckering and imagined broken hips.
Come Monday, I got up with Lola at 5:20, let her outside, and saw that the ice was gone from the trees. BUT, the wind was howling, snow was blowing, and I’ve run out of shits to give. So, I went back to bed. And I was 100% OK with that.
We had three days that were exactly the same: daylight so dark that the lights were kept on all day, ice coating everything, and frozen slop everywhere. I don’t know what Jack Frost’s scrum looks like, but I have a feeling it would look like what mid-Michigan has looked like for literally days.
And now, as I type, it’s still blowing snow and with high winds that allegedly could have gusts up to 55 miles per hour.
The good news is that I really don’t care. It’s frustrating to be hike-less for so many days in a row, and I hope to get back into the woods on Tuesday morning, but the house is warm, Wifey is off from work, and there’s footy on this afternoon. All I NEED to do is make a run to Meijer for some food stuffs and IPA, and I’ll be just fine.
Since, by choice, I haven’t been on an actual vacation since 2019, I figure a few days in a row of slack and sloth whilst Ma Nature shits all over the state, will be just fine. Would I rather be on a beach? 100%, but I’ll take what I can get.
There are only a few dates left in my wildly successful 2025 Ignorance is Bliss Tour, and I want to make sure I get some miles in my feetz before I meet with my management team to discuss 2026 tour plans.
The photos today were taken on Saturday and Sunday as I crept around the yard.
Later.
UPDATE: Not long after I hit the publish button, I saw that the County Parks Commission was asking that no one attempt to use the parks today due to the number of trees down, heavy winds, and ice covering the service roads. Looks like I made the right call.