Mika Lappalainen | Friday, 12 April 2024
Last weekend we had some nice sunny days. I cleaned snow from solar panels finally. We have two group for ice fishing Friday and Saturday. There was lot of preparation to do.
Monday I picked up two big sleigh so we can take group to our lake and back easily with snowmobiles. It was snowing some and weather started to turn warm.
Tuesday morning was grey and moist. We had fish delivery and stocked some fish to our lake, it will be good ice fishing for guests and lots of fun for us in summer. Tuesday afternoon sun came back and weather was +8 celsius. I went to our lake and did casting practise in heavy wind.
Wednesday warm weather and rain, +6 celsius and rain like summer time. Snow started to drop down, yards got soft and lot tractor work to keep things moving. I don't think you can even imagine how is that when this kind weather comes. We even had thundering in the evening. Old people say that when thundering and lakes are covered with ice, it will be cold summer. We see how that will end up.
Thursday absolutely beautiful day with heat, +15 celsius/60F. Sun and wind, snow melts fast and now neighbours get stuck on snow with the cars, rescue day. And at the same we had to move reindeers from fence to other one as snow was gone from those so they could get drinking snow. Well there are snow, but it is too tight and thick, more like ice. We put gps for them also, sign that freedom is calling.
Rest of the day was more or less fixing trail to the lake, had to drive with snowmobile and kind of pack the snow so it doesn't give up on Friday when we go with sleighs.
Satu went shopping and got drinks (beer etc) and food for ice fishermen. Next two days will be ice fishing, long days and fun. I had one more booking for ice fishing, it will be just few days before we go our holiday.
Some guiding requests coming for May, we are onnour holiday and luckily rivers are closed so I couldn't do those anyway. Well not all rivers are closed but grayling has spawning protection so no point to go.
We agreed this week also one tv-shooting in Sweden on August. Forecast for next week is colder again, some minus celsius which is good as it make circumstances better for reindeer to go back to the wild. And it is not so cold that couldn't do casting.
Lot of things to do before holiday.
Have a nice weekend
Mika from Finland