TCC for 1/10/09

The Caretaker's Concern 1/10/09

Lake Temp. No more Lake temperature report, Lake george is frozen.
Ghetto temp. 31 F.
Island tmp. 16 F. Today's L/H: 12/18 F.

Current conditions: Snowing, white-out conditions, wind from the Narrows, about 5 mph.

Lake iced over today, not pure black ice but close enough, unfortunately the current snowfall will most likely render the ice useless for skating tomorrow, however, since it is rather cold out the Caretaker is hoping that the snow will not stick to the ice but instead blow away. Plenty more to share about today but will have to wait until tomorrow.

All photos for this post are from today.

--The Caretaker


1/10/09

TCC for 1/9/09

The Caretaker recorded some of the noises made by the ice, unfortunately he could not upload the audio clip to the blog, he'll work on getting out tomorrow.

1/9/09 Early Morning


1/9/09 Afternoon to Evening

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Report(s) will frollow tomorrow.

TCC for 1/6/09

Originally the Caretaker was planning on posting a rather lengthy entry for today, but now he is far too drained. He paddled over to the mainland this morning only having to break through about 10 yards of ice, when he returned in the afternoon he had to break through ice pretty much the entire way back. However, that is not what has tuckered him out, dickering around with a new shower arrangement that took him over an hour and a half to get going (which in the end never worked so he had to go back to his old way) is what sucked all the energy out of him.

By the afternoon most all of the Lake South of the Island was iced over, at least as far as the eye could see, but come this evening the wind picked up and broke up much of the ice. Based on the weather report for tonight, chances are the Lake will ice in again by tomorrow afternoon. The weather report calls for precipitaion of various sorts up until Friday so the Caretaker is all set to hunker down on the Island until after the weather clears. He's looking forward to being Island bound for the next few days, he's got plenty to do that he has been neglecting, one thing in particular, among other things, is to get caught up on this blog. By tomorrow afternoon the entries from the past few days should be expanded upon. Unless of course something else comes up, which never happens here. Ha.

--The Caretaker

1/6/09 Early Morning






1/6/09 Late Afternoon

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The Caretaker was expecting to have the time today to be much more expansive in this post, however that is not the case, he is trying to be Island bound but the mainland keeps calling him back. So, in brief for today:
Paddled over to mainland for the day, left wallet on Island, lived without it and spent no money.
While paddling over, the Caretaker realized that instead of focusing on all that he had to do for the day he should focus on what he was doing that very moment as if that is all he has ever done or ever will do. The Caretaker is trying for more balance.
While paddling back to the Island he watched a Bald Eagle fly East towards Dome Island, eventually it alighted upon a tree on Dome.
Just a moment ago the Caretaker heard the ice over in Huddle Bay "sing", it was a long rumbling moan.

--The Caretaker

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The Caretaker has a photo from this morning, it is of a building on the West shore, it is reflected upon the ice that has formed over there, no real ice at the Island yet. In fact the Caretaker paddled back and forth to the Mainland three times today. He will be going over to the mainland tomorrow too, however, after that he will be Island bound whether it is by ice or by choice and that is when he will get caught up with his blog and share about things like motor boating in total white-out conditions, thawing out water buckets, nails through his feet, remote boat throttle control, oh, and how he killed a bird today, or at least thinks he did, but he didn't mean to.

--The Caretaker