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do you skate? ice fish?
might as well enjoy the cold hard stuff~~
my temps are going to be 0 to -5 the next few days, (you too Maggot) so my ponds and lakes and cranberry bogs will be safely frozen solid.

here are a couple photos, the frog pond in Boston Common so the city kids have a place to safely skate. (click pic, it's really cool)
and the frozen Washington Mall where i skated as a kid.
when my kids were young we skated on cranberry bogs because i knew they were shallow.
i have a big lake at the bottom of my street, will take some pics soon. i expect to see some activity out there now. it's not been safe until now.
how about you? do you like to skate?

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I loved to skate as a kid & my brothers had a hockey rink in our backyard that my dad made for them. Guys live & breathe hockey up there on the border. I can remember not having enough sense to come in out of the cold & crying as my feet thawed when I finally did. Dumbass.

I have a pond here but it doesn't get cold enough for thick ice.

Photo from last winter ~

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pretty little pond Duchess! i'm surprised it doesn't freeze solid for you to enjoy.

i like this painting
The Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch 1795

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This climate is odd, one day it can be in the 20's, the next it could be in the 50's. The ocean plays a role in our weird weather too.

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i'm only a mile from the ocean, and know what you mean about its effects.
but it IS New England, and we get arctic air masses sometimes, such as this weekend. i'll bet i see a lot of ice fishing, but there is no way i'd sit out there and freeze my bazoongas off for a frozen fish!
here's 2 of my sons with their ice-fishing catch years ago.

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I like the pics you ladies post. I don't comment on them often, but I do look. You represent the part of American culture I am least familiar with, the 'old Americans', New Englanders.

You both remind me of transcendeltalist writings and Robert Frost poems.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. ~~ Margaret Fuller

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well that was a nice comment Cracker, so i shall wax poetic...of course Robert Frost is a New England favorite~~

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening


Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

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That reminds me to get out and get my fishing license. I like ice fishing just not @ -30 below that just hurts thinking about it.

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i am impressed! some beautiful backyard ice rinks here~~slideshow:

http://www.boston.com/sports/hockey/shar...item-10453

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*sigh* Long ago & far away. The slide show made me feel nostalgic.

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(01-22-2011 10:51 PM)Maggot Wrote:  That reminds me to get out and get my fishing license. I like ice fishing just not @ -30 below that just hurts thinking about it.

Maggot only goes ice fishing when it's warm.

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a local looking for the fish. haha maybe doing fish calls~~
someone gets one~
and they cook out there on the ice.

clicky for fishy

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I can recall seeing ice shacks out on the lakes & some people had quite elaborate ones, they were awesome little rooms with some comforts of home. People would drive their snowmobiles & trucks out to them. I check the weather back home a lot & there was a morning this week that it was -29.