Call it a mile

Four or five weekends ago Arlene and I tromped out a snowshoe trail to a patch of aspen trees in our woods and then to the clearing we call the patio, then back to the backyard. Two weekends ago we did more work on the part back from the patio, which mostly consisted of clipping down the last foot of the stems we had cut off at snow level the first time. Last weekend we and Anne and Matt did the same for the other part of the new trail. Late Sunday Matt went out and walked the entire length of the trail system with his GPS. He reported that the GPS said that the total length of the trails was 0.96 miles. I asked, “Did you do the back way in to the blueberry trail, too?” “No.” “Well, that must be another 0.04 miles.” So we’re going to say we have a mile of trails on the property.