The ice on our section of the lake typically melts off during the first week of April. This year is no exception. In just the last two days, the ice vanished from around my docks and receded 100 yards down the lake. Yesterday, with temperatures near 70, I went down to the lake to do some spring cleaning.
The St. Clair clan did the
same.
Tad rototilled the St. Clair
garden. Randy and I raked leaves and
branches at our respective places. After
completing our projects, we all gathered at the fire pit. We drank beer. A single boat motored down the lake on the open
water, swung around when confronted by the lake ice, and droned back whence it
came.
First boat of the year.
We didn’t convene a meeting of
the Aluminum Can Melting Guild, but we maintained a decent fire. Randy--because he is now an adult and his dad
can no longer tell him not to—put fire to a straw broom and held it aloft.
Good stuff.
Using the newly open waters as
my background, I photographed a pile of ingots produced by the Aluminum Can
Melting Guild over the winter. We are ready
to melt more cans in our summer fires and add ingots to the pile.
Last of the Lake Ice
Randy With the Broom
Our Pile of Aluminum Ingots
— Mitchell Hegman
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