New Year's Weekend

Late Friday afternoon was warm for this time of year with a variety of precipitation types including, but not limited to, rain, sleet and snow.

We grabbed a ruler, an ice auger, and a rope (just in case the ice was not as thick as advertised and one of us needed rescuing) and headed out onto the ice to find the thickness of the frozen layer.

There is just short of a foot of very good ice.  That is almost twice as much as the last few years at this point in winter.

The clouds and precip were gone by Saturday morning.  It was a bit cooler (16°F) and 1 inch of new snow was on the ground.  Marching around on the lake taking pictures made us really hungry...

Construction projects on the lake have slowed (stopped) as is normal during the cold season.

With the tasks we had planned finished, we left to attend a card party Saturday night.

Before leaving we went to the public boat landing to get some rare (well rare here anyway) pictures of the south end of the lake.

There were signs of ice fishermen around but we did not see any actual ice fishermen.