Sitting here this morning, Randy says “We should do a this week in the Woods. It’s been a while.” I kinda shrug….. UGH its 6:30 on a Sunday and I’m not ready to think yet. I reluctantly agree, get my computer, and realize it has been since April!

Spring is here and we know what that means…. time for Randy to spend too much money! Winter doesn’t seem to fully want to let go, but the soft ground is now not workable, particularly for our whole tree crew.

It has become abundantly clear that winters just aren’t what they used to be. While many Mainers may welcome the warmer winter temps, it is really impacting the way we can operate. We have always saved our more fragile ground for winters, but that trend is changing.

Maybe we should have titled this, “The Winter that Never Was.”

“At first it broke us, then it built us”

It almost felt like that should be a title to a book about the logging industry. Actually, I think it could be a book about everyone living right now.

The lot they are on now is about 30 acres and they are “cutting wood. The round kind.” (That is what Randy answered when I asked him to help me write this—- so I’m keeping it. He is not being very helpful haha)

Unfortunately, our whole world seems to revolve around the government “helping” us. It is election season, so candidates are out and about trying to meet us and talk about our problems and asking how to “help”.

I see lot’s of orange posters coming down which means we should be back in the woods in no time. We were very fortunate to have one of those coveted jobs on a non-posted road this year, and the cut to length crew was able to complete the job and worked until April 13th! The ground is definitely too soupy to get back out there yet, but we have plenty of maintenance to do.

As we sit here on Sunday morning, drinking our coffee, we can’t help but notice that the sun coming through the kitchen window is sitting quite a bit higher these days……To the logging industry, the warmer days start to create a panic. Obsessive weather checking

We are off and running! Back before the Jay mill explosion, we were contemplating starting a cut to length crew. The explosion and loss of that market squashed that plan real quick and in a hurry. Then, about a year ago we started down the road again, but just as soon as we were approved at the bank, we had a little panic attack and pumped the brakes again…. Then, this in August we decided it was time to stop talking about it and just go for it.