...moving sheet-ice!
Apparently, the wind picked up and moved a very large, like maybe three miles x one mile sized, sheet of ice toward my 30' dock. Probably, it was my next door neighbor's breakwater, made from large interlocked boulders, which kept it safe. The outermost 15' of dock are under about two inches of water and I have the trash barrels full of water helping to keep it all in place along with boatlift and boat. Anyway, a lot of tinkling icy noise from outside caught my attention and down on the dock there was a sheet of soft ice maybe one inch thick that's pushed up on top! So, I think for a minute and then with the 15' roof rake start smacking the ice to create a small safe zone.
Had to share that, and this will be a very long night. Oh well funny how things work out, at last it got me away from thinking about the lovely property tax.
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