Surviving Minnesota!

[jerryse]

Weatherman said the rain we had a couple days ago would have been about 20 inches of snow . Glad it was rain . Yesterday and today hanging around 32 and breezy . Puts the chill in you .

 

[memphis]

Jerry....that's the issue down here...damp and chilly. Gets in your bones.

BC...Sentry sound like the coolest roo!! Lucky girls!!

 

[duluthralphie]

Jerry, we had enough rain here on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to ruin ice fishing for the winter

We already had snow-ice of about 7 inches. But it got warm, and we had heavy wet snow and rain.. which put water on top the ice.

The whole works froze over so we had 2 layers of ice with water between the layers.

Now we have this water on top those layers. We will need really cold weather for an extended period to make decent ice. Even then it will be iffy around here.

I have decided against a permanent house on the ice this year. I will stick to the portables. Those with houses on the ice already are going to be using a lot of four letter words when they try to move them.

I think north will be better. I am planning on going to Togo in the near future on snowmobiled with my son in law, we will just use portables up there. We won’t be driving on the ice either, well, with trucks.


The worst part is we are set up for a fish kill this winter. Bad ice. Lots of snow early, will cause the weeds to die, and rot. So instead of making oxygen they will be consuming it as they rot.


I am ending the decade as a naysayer, I guess.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Memphis. He is kinda neat. I wish he was more of a lapper too, but if he wants to be a fraidy cat around these parts for his own good, that's okay. I'll just stand aside and listen to him. I'll try to get some video with him doing it. It may be spring as I should be able to find him in a nest calling to the girls and he really does that. Berries do it too. I suppose I could get some nice expensive raspberries for him... chortle chortle.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Ralphie, DH has a bit of a V-plow path to ours. But the house...I don't know if we dare redrill the holes?! It's going to Geyser in that house! And I think we'll be up an ice creek without a paddle? We will really need a paddle? It's a flipping mess. I told DH to get it off the lake.

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie, DH has a bit of a V-plow path to ours. But the house...I don't know if we dare redrill the holes?! It's going to Geyser in that house! And I think we'll be up an ice creek without a paddle? We will really need a paddle? It's a flipping mess. I told DH to get it off the lake.

If not off the lake, at least raise it a foot off the ice on blocks.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

He's got it on two 4 x4 blocks already. I just saw in the news paper the Sheriff has made an announcement on mixed conditions and ice thicknesses. Too warm December was....Too warm for ice fishermen I should say. Crazy stuff.

 

[jerryse]

Jerry, we had enough rain here on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to ruin ice fishing for the winte



Togo ? I thought you were not leaving home until May .

 

[duluthralphie]

Togo is home away from home.. so it doesn’t count.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Happy New Year everyone!!! I don’t think I can stay up until midnight, this is the first year I’m too old to stay up.