Finally, Little Lake is frozen over

Note: I shot this earlier this afternoon, shortly before the Bacardi study and immediately emailed it to this blog. I just now realized it never showed up. Oh, these nightmares! Anyway, here it is, throwing my order off, and here is what I wrote at the time I made the Instagram:

Finally, Little Lake is frozen over. As I have noted before, this used to pretty much always happen at least by the third week of October and quite often the second and sometimes even the first. But at least it has happened now. We just need a little snow, That's all.

Text added at 5:36 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 47 and counting.

Before it can even get cold, it warms up again

Last week, I posted a picture I took less than 100 yards from here of a boat in the middle of ice and everything freezing up - behind schedule, but finally freezing up. Now everything is warm again. Last night, we could hear the wind howling, blasting in from its origins in the South Pacific. In some places The wind hit 105 mph. Early in the fall, it looked like we might get an early winter. Now, I am beginning to wonder if winter will ever come at all this year. Before this year, several seasons had passed by without any water running through this culvert. There has now been water in this culvert since break up last spring, but not always this deep. Even during our hot, hot, summer weather there was water in it. Last night's warm wind brought warm rain and now there is even more water in the culvert.

Text added at 12:42 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues.

Those things that were frozen at the beginning of the day remained frozen at the end

Today was the first day in quite some time that all those things that were frozen when I got up remained frozen at the end of the day. It used to be that this would typically happen earlier. Who knows what will happen next? This is the swampy fringe of the pond that my children named Little Lake when they were small.

Text added at 8:17 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues.