It has been pretty quiet around the web site lately....Whats new?
   For me here in Connecticut spring is creeping in ever so slowly. The snow is gone here at the house, but an hour west where I work, there is still snow to be found and we have the forest roads closed because of either snow and mud. I came home Wednesday night and parked along side the fire pond below the shop and the wood frogs were emerging and trying their best to croak.... today it never hit 35 degrees and strong winds out of the north, no frogs singing today! Robins and Redwing Blackbirds are back and crows are gathering nesting materials. There is still ice on the bigger lakes and protected ponds.
  I didn't do any maple sugaring this year as my wife and I are due to retire April 1st and make the move to Maine...equipment and all! I've got 7 tractors moved, 6 more to go and the 2655 is in parts all over the shop floor still! Yikes! It is amazing how much you accumulate over the years and sometimes it hard to decide what goes/what stays/what gets pitched.
I had the boys take some scrap steel to the salvage yard last week.Holy Smoke! 200 dollars a ton! (I havent turned in scrap since it was 20 dollars)
 Would be glad to hear whats going on out there.....Say, does Larry Coltrin still live in Illinois? <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=":wink:" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: --> 

                           Cal