Interesting Days ...

Greetings Everyone!

Our past few days have been interesting.  We invited our friends G & B to go with us into Sterling to get mail and supplies - however, they don't have a snow machine.  So we loaded them into our snow machine sled and took off across the lake. 

Off to the lower landing with G & B in the sled.

Returning to the cabin with supplies.

While Ernie & G loaded up supplies - I challenged myself by walking from the lower landing back towards our cabin.  I made it mid-way when Ernie caught up with me by snow machine - and I rode the rest of the way home.  Walking was slow because there is little snow - if any - on the ice.  I was wearing cleats - but it was very slow going.  I did enjoy myself though and avoided looking down in some places because it felt strange looking down into the clear frozen lake. As I walked along - I noticed numerous cracks that spread out like spider webs - with some cracks opened - but frozen.  There were also numerous bumps and frozen ripples of overflow. 

The following day - our friend K came across the lake with building supplies.  We could see him coming from a distance and noticed that he kept stopping every now and again - and it appeared his snow machine was over heating.  So we went out to see if we could be of assistance.  When we got to K - we discovered that he was towing supplies AND a huge kettle of burning wood! 
 What a hoot!! 

K with his kettle.

Looking into the kettle - K said that when he left the lower landing the kettle
 was full of burning wood.

Off K goes with his burning kettle of wood!

Ernie and G using the auger to open up a water hole for G & B.

Finally getting water! G's water hole is deep and the ice is a good 30 inches thick!

It's amazing how thick the ice is.

We did see the little moose the other day.  She came to our cabin to eat but did not stay long. We have also noticed the hares coats (rabbits) are beginning to turn brown! I wonder if we will have an early spring - or because we have little snow and they need to blend in? 

All's well - take care!