Greetings and welcome!

It was quite a weekend last weekend. The weather came out better than predicted, and there were a lot of people around to enjoy it.

The river didn’t get as high as I had expected, but again a lot of people came and had a lot of fun. There were plenty of spills and wipeouts, and everyone had a blast.

Saturday night brought the birthday club party and a live band to Curve Inn. The No Schtick Band was impressive, and hopefully they play around here again soon.

Chris commented Friday on how different the place looked since last weekend with everything greening up so fast. The green explosion is under way. It is getting hard to see very far into the woods now, and the trees are really starting to fill in. The trillium are getting common now, and a lot of places look like someone littered the forest floor there are so many. There are a lot of other new flowers coming in too, and the ferns are starting to unwrap from their fiddleheads.

The prediction of last weekend being my first weekend with Repel fell a little short. I maybe encountered a half dozen ticks in my travels, and NO mosquitoes. No complaints here. I did see a lot of different moths and butterflies, and the windshield on the truck is loading up with them. I heard one person mention some pesky back flies, but I haven’t seen them.

Speaking of moths, the one pictured last week from my front screen was there Thursday night and stayed until Saturday night. She managed to attract no less than three suitors Saturday night, and apparently left by Sunday morning. She was ID’d as a popple spinx moth.

We had a cold front go through today, but it didn’t bring much for rain. There were a few showers on radar this morning, and so far it looks like the afternoon waves will be to our south. It is expected to take our temps down into the upper 30s tonight, and drop today’s current temp of 84 to tomorrow and Thursday’s highs of around 70.

There is a late week storm to keep an eye on. It is currently progged to hit Thursday and Friday, leaving us a decent weekend. That sounds good, but the models have been struggling a little with storm timing the past few weeks, so I wouldn’t carve that in stone just yet.

As far as events the only thing that I know about is a fundraiser tomorrow at Country Inn (High Falls Rd & Newton Lake Rd) for the folks that stock High Falls Flowage with walleyes. It starts at 5:30 and a $7 ticket gets you a fish fry and an entry for door prizes including a two night stay at a cabin on Noquebay or a day of pontoon boat rental.

Next weekend (5-27) there is the McCaslin Lioness Faire in Lakewood, and the local Legion Club Memorial Day Service and picnic at the Silver Cliff Memorial Picnic Grounds. Note that both events are on a Sunday. Being Memorial Day weekend there will probably be additions to that list.

Last week I managed to get about half of my grass cut before running out of time, gas, and daylight. That half needs it again and the half that didn’t get cut is pretty shaggy. It is time for folks with weekend cabins to bring to mower along.

That is about news for today. Have a good week and thank you for visiting!

RJB

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Greetings and welcome!

It is a pretty nice day outside today. It is partly cloudy and about 75, with a little bit of wind.

The weekend weather looks pretty good too. We have a fast moving cold front that will come through later tonight with a (50%) chance of showers and T-storms. The guess is that it will come about sunset and be gone quickly. The HPC has the front here about 7pm, and over Milwaukee and Chicago by 1am.

Behind that we are expecting high pressure, which means clear weather. Saturday I am looking for clearing skies and about 65 for a high with a little wind. Sunday looks 5-10 degrees warmer and maybe a little sunnier.

Clear skies behind cold fronts make for cold nights, and that it the scoop this weekend. Saturday night’s low could go into the upper 30s.

Those same clear skies make for some good sky gazing. We have amazing stars around here on dark nights. The moon rises late Saturday night (1:17am) and is waning at 62%. Between sunset and midnight there should be good stars.

Also of interest, there is a major sunspot pointed directly at earth. From today’s Spaceweather.com update..

NOAA forecasters estimate a 75% chance of M-class solar flares and a 20% chance of X-flares during the next 24 hours. Any eruptions are likely to be geoeffective because the source, sunspot AR1476, is directly facing our planet.

In other words, there is a pretty decent chance of some northern lights over the weekend, and skies clear enough to see them if they do happen.

The rain this week had a lot of effects. It definitely helped the plant world with the Spring growth. It also seemed to favor the insect world.  I have been seeing a lot of moths and butterflies, and other insects in the past few days. I haven’t needed Repel yet, but this could be the first weekend.

The rain was also good for the whitewater rafting. The rivers didn’t get as high as I had guessed, but it will still be good for the weekend. The Peshtigo peaked at about +5 Thursday and will be about +2 to +3 for the weekend. That is still well into the fun zone, so I wouldn’t hesitate to take Kosir’s up on the free rafting trip for Moms with a paid person. The Menominee River is still rockin’ too, with good water in the 2,000 to 2,500 range. Yeeha.

Don’t forget that they offer flat water tubing on the Peshtigo and kayak rentals on Caldron Falls flowage. Those are fun too.

I am expecting decent fishing this weekend. The moon phase and high pressure aren’t ideal, but there have been a lot of bug hatches. That should help things.

I have a couple of events for this weekend. Chris’ calendar has the following..

Tiger Chase 5K Run/Walk
Sponsored by the Gillett PTO – Proceeds to benefit the Gillett School District students
Visit our Website for Details

There is also a live band down at Curve Inn Saturday night. They have a birthday club with a party for all of the people with birthdays that month, and May’s party comes with a live band. The bands at Curve are usually pretty good.

I am sure that there are other events, but I am not aware of them. I had pretty limited travels this week.

For taking Mom out to dinner on Sunday I would start at Peshtigo River Resort or Hilltop Resort. Both have Mother’s Day dinner specials. For someplace different you might try Whispering Pine Lodge by White Potato Lake. The cabins are very nice and the gardens are beautiful.

I was in a hurry on my last update and never posted pictures. Here are a couple..

That is about it for our visit today. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!

RJB

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