Wisconsin is So Great!

Wisconsin is great! This morning I was having my coffee, looking out over our snow-covered/-2 degree F backyard starting to plan our garden! My wife, who is from Paraguay, I am sure thinks I'm nuts (the fact that I really like winter and never notice that the sun hasn't shone for the last 2 weeks doesn't help!). As far as she is concerned, summer never quite makes it up to Rhinelander!

In any case, no matter what season you are in, there is always great stuff to do, and at the same time great stuff to look forward to in the next season (except spring - see below). Here's what I mean. In summer you can go camping, garden ,open water fish, barbecue, and all that good summer stuff. At about the middle of summer you can start thinking about walks through the colorful fall woods in search of elusive ruffed grouse, rabbits and squirrles!

And just as fall sets in and hunting is in full swing, the air starts getting cooler, and then ice fishing settles on the brain. To be truthful however, late fall/early winter is a very difficult time once the lakes freeze over - serious decisions must be made. Should I go ice fishing today, or give Ruffed Grouse another shot (no pun intended)?

Then comes winter; hunting is basically over except for snowshoe hares, and ice fishing is in full swing. That season also passes too fast. As I write this, there are only two weekends left before tip-up fishing for walleye and northern pike (my favorites) is over. And that is when you start thinking of the garden, paging through the Jung catalog, picking out plants to order for this summer (we are going to order some asparagus plants this year). Once summer hits, the cyle starts again, and another year flys by.

[I skip spring because there really is nothing to look forward to, and nothing much to do either - no hunting, no fishing, and no gardening because the soil is still too wet. Give me another 2 weeks of winter and 1 of summer!]

Anyway, Cheers! to Wisconsin - it's a great place to live!