Mika Lappalainen | Friday, 24 January 2025
Weather is still as earlier, not really snowing as under one inch is not really anything for us. Last weekend some plus celsius (32F) and rain. Snow stayed as it was windy which cooled surface. At the same time all the yards went icy skating rings, so I spent my Saturday to fix it.
After warm weekend temperatures dropped to - 20 celsius (-4F). And then coming weekend and next week seems to be around zero (32F). We are still missing few reindeers and I haven't got time to find them.
Thursday I had plan to go. I packed snowmobile on trailer and all the gears what I need to catch and bring reindeer to car if found one. I took snowmobile out from trailer and when moving it next to car so I can take gears it turned off while driving. Electricity went totally out.
I checked battery connection and fuse box. Everything was okay, so I called to my friend and he told to check main fuse which is so well hidden that you can't reach it without tools, as it would matter because it is 40 fuse and those are not spare fuse.
So my reindeer catching trip turned snowmobile evacuation. I had to drove back to farm and took quad with me. Then with quad and winch get snowmobile to trailer, take snowmobile to repair. Luckily they had time to get main fuse on sight and leave it like that so I can use and fix fuse if it does it again. Main fuse was burned as it had bad connection because bottom of fuse box was loose.
Sun was going down already and darkness coming, so I dropped snowmobile to farm and went to pick up quad.
So there is totally nothing new in Northern Front. No fishing, just surviving thru winter at the moment.
Well I have ideas about Slovenia or Italy on May, not sure if those could work out for fishing on that time. That's just idea on this point and also dreaming few trip to Sweden.
Friday I will have new try on afternoon with reindeer and also is on list.
Have a nice weekend and go fishing, I can't
Mika from Northern Front