Hello Everyone!

It's great to be back at the cabin!  The lake has been very calm with no winds. As a result, some areas of the lake are beginning to freeze.  In the first photo - we noticed that 'little islands" of ice go floating by.  I don't know if you can see one of those little islands floating by in the first photo.  We are suppose to have rain today so, I'm sure these little islands will melt away.

Because the lake is warmer than the atmosphere, we also have lots of hoar frost - I thought you all might like to see some spider webs covered in frost - cool looking.  Our sauna window is a work of frost crystals.  Yesterday, Ernie and I constructed "duck bills" for the sauna - those are cedar planks for the sauna floor.  Today Ernie will make dowel cradles to hold the removable dowels that will dry our washed clothes - a rather unique dryer and good use of the sauna heat after we sauna.

In the evening we took a walk on our beach to see the rising moon.  It was absolutely beautiful.  We were hoping to see stars but it was too overcast.

We have not seen the little moose but we discovered that we have another 'pet' - a beautiful white weasel. He or she was running around on our deck.  I was pleased to see the critter - mainly because the eat voles and mice - so in affect, we have a mobile mouse trap.  It's been cold - in the 20's - so I've been putting out bread crumbs for the birds.  We now have birds coming to feed.  Some of the birds we've not seen before - so we keep our bird book handy so that we can identify them.

Well, take care everyone and we'll keep in touch!!