Narrow window of opportunity

[jhetley]

May try to do the bog boardwalk this morning.  We have to try to get out before the bugs, a major force in the Great North Woods.  Some years, it seems as if we have about three days between ice-out and black-flies...

This also applies to our "hundred-acre wood", the abandoned ridge farm we own.  I drove in last Friday, finding that the road was still muddy but the bugs were out already.  Well, at least I didn't get stuck...