The Ice is Almost Gone - March 31, 2010

Looking out at the lake today, what remaining ice made me think about plate tectonics from my geology classes. It was like watching continents slide by each other, collide (one sliding beneath the other forcing mountains to grow) or just splitting apart. Only the continents in the case are large areas of ice moving on top of the liquid lake and the mountains formed are mounds of broken ice. Kinda cool...pardon the pun. With temperatures reaching 78 degrees today, it's doubtful that the ice will be sticking around much longer. Our lake is actually starting to look more like a lake again rather than a skating rink. Only one month until the opening of fishing season. It won't be long before HTP and I can roll the dock in and launch the boat.

Word of the Day

Squoze - To have squeezed something previously. The past tense of squeeze.

I took a quart of tangelo juice and a quart of grapefruit juice that I squoze and froze before we left Arizona so they would thaw out for Easter dinner at Sis' place. LOL. I just had to use the Word of the Day in a sentence. We're going to celebrate Easter dinner on Saturday with Sis and her hubby and my folks. I'm bringing the juice. I'm also bringing some German potato salad and some green beans for green bean casserole and some hard-boiled eggs. I'm thinking about making a dessert too but...we'll see. We're going to be celebrating Easter dinner in The Big City on Sunday.

The last of the winter snow has melted. Poor Kylee! Our last snow mountain, the one by our garage, disappeared sometime between last night and this morning. How she loved racing to the top of the mountain, sliding down from the summit. However, don't feel too bad, I noted that she discovered the huge pile of leaves where I'd hauled them off behind our propane tank. She took a flying leap right into the heart of leaf pile....and sank. She looked a bit startled about the sinking thing but it didn't stop her from repeating the exercise the next time we went outside for our walk. She may not be able to climb on top of a mountain of leaves, but she can still enjoy jumping into the mountain and scattering it about a bit....which is why she remained inside while HTP and I were raking and hauling leaves on Monday. Now that we've got the leaves all hauled off to the woods, Kylee's more than welcome to leap into the leaf piles.

Random Thought of the Day

How come toy hippos are always blue, or purple, when real hippos are brownish?

Noteworthy Quote of the Day

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)