It’s the time of the season when waterfowl rule the waters, at least in the North Country where ice-out took place on Lake Umbagog less than two weeks ago. It is a precious time, before the black flies, deer flies, and mosquitoes arrive, and we use these few weeks to get the cottage ready for summer, pulling out the deck furniture, erecting the screen house, and redistributing the piles of soil that were plowed up along with the snow during this warmer-than-usual winter just ended.
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