Jigsaw Puzzle

Spring fever is beginning to replace Jigsaw mania in my psyche.  Whip and I jumped in Jormungandr to check out the trails.  Most of the snow is gone but there are places which are prone to deep drifts.  One of those places is the north end of Gorgeous Gorge.  The wind screams across the open fields until it reaches the gorge where the earth just falls away.  The wind slows and drops whatever snow it was carrying.  I was glad I'd opted for the tires w/ a more aggressive tread since the snow there was deep and slushy.  We made it through and checked out the pond at the bottom of the gorge.  It seemed pretty low for this time of year but it's level is not based on rain/runoff but on groundwater level.  As the frost goes out of the ground it will probably rise.  Bopped on over to Bifrost.  That's the new bridge Neighbor Blake and Brothers Phil and Brent had made for me across the draw.  Water was running through that and even going over one end of it.  I checked the three tubes we'd put in the bottom.  Two definitely had water going through but the third might be plugged.  When the water level goes down I'll check to see if it can be unplugged.  The top of the bridge was mud so decided not to drive Jormungandr over it quite yet.  Whip and I went back another way and there are no downed trees or other issues.  Well, looks like the deer grazed on the grey dogwood but didn't do damage that the little trees can't handle.  I realize March is way too early for spring fever - at least in the Northwoods.  I'll spend some time going through the greenhouse catalogs and repotting flowers I've overwintered in Sleipnir.