After our recent spell of Arctic weather, yesterday’s warmer temperatures called for a gathering at the lake. I hiked down to the lakeshore to join my neighbors after a short walk on the road in front of my house.
I enjoyed feeling the sun
pressing heat against me as I walked. And
the sky was big yesterday. Bigger than
normal, it seemed. From end to end, the
deep blue of midday was marbled with clouds flowing eastward.
Down at the lake, we enjoyed
the requisite fire near the shore, but also had a sledding run just off the
fire, and an Estes hobby rocket to launch.
I put the rocket together. I would like to note that I even applied all
the decals to the craft. The rocket is designed
to reach over a thousand feet above the launch pad with the engine provided in
the kit.
Everyone took at least a single
run down the hill using one of the various plastic sleds available. I ended up sprawled out near the bottom of
the run with snow in my left ear. Sawyer
shot off the run and crashed into a wooden pallet, but survived just fine.
We hauled my rocket out onto
the middle of the lake ice hoping to launch against blue sky and sweeping
clouds. Sadly, the winds proved too strong on the
lake. We were forced to scrub the
mission. Maybe later this morning on
that.
I have posted a few photographs from the day.
Sun over the Elkhorn Range
Stacie on a Sledding Run
Amelia (Stylish in Her
Snowsuit)
Sawyer at the End of a Sledding
Run
Scrubbed Rocket Launch
— Mitchell Hegman
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