[AT] Spam> Hello

[charliehill]

Yeah I know you guys spend a lot of time on the ice up that way but it's a 
rare occasion here to get enough ice to support even a person and thank 
goodness.   Our average temps have been down about 10 degs so far this year 
but the avg daily temp is still above freezing.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:09 PM
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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>> Ralph, it's a new experience for folks in DC if they are younger than
>> about
>> 40 but the older folks have seen it before.  I think we are getting back
>> around the cycle to were we were in the 50's.  This year is the first 
>> time
>> the ground has been frozen here in a decade or more.   Not frozen like 
>> you
>> see but frozen down a few inches.  Back when I was a boy about 20 miles
>> north of my present home the swamps would freeze over thick enough that
>> 100
>> lb boys could walk and slide on the ice and only occasionally break
>> through.
>> Sometimes the creek and the river would freeze over.  To some of you the
>> creek or river freezing over doesn't sound like much but the river near 
>> my
>> house is 2 miles wide.  I've seen it frozen from bank to bank and once
>> even
>> saw some wheel tracks out about 1/3 of the way over.  I don't know what
>> made
>> them, only that they were there.  That  was close to 40 years ago.
>
> Charlie, I wish I had some photos of my Uncles F500 Ford truck out on the
> lake picking up a load of frozen fish for the mink farms back in the
> sixties. He used to say sometimes you could hear (and feel) the ice crack
> although he never had a problem with it. Ice fishing is a popular sport 
> here
> all winter and you'll see trucks and fishing huts all over the ice.
> Just for the heck of it I am going out with the ice auger one of these 
> days
> and see just how deep the ice is frozen on some of our sloughs.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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