From Makinen, my home between homes (wish my wife would let us stay there perminently but she's got this strange thing about wanting running water for toilets and showers): Trail to the outhouse is almost all grass now except where it jumps over the snowbank. River out front has lots of orange water on top of the ice (at least late in the day, it's just orange ice in the morning). And I'm starting to see critters outside instead of just hearing them run around in the attic.