Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Sunday, January 2, 2022

You Know It’s Cold When You Need to Warm Your Beer

Even though yesterday’s high temperature did not elevate above single digits, we convened a hasty meeting of the Aluminum Beer Can Melting Guild at the lake.  The frigid temperatures called for a big, flame-gnashing campfire.  The cold proved deep enough to require nudging twelve-packs of beer near the fire to keep them from freezing.

In spite of the cold weather, Tad managed to melt down enough cans for the first official aluminum pour of 2022.

Though the ice started developing on the lake only two weeks ago, our recent frigid weather impulses have now produced ten inches of ice.  Toward the end of the day, several guild members wandered out on the ice to check some set lines.  Emelia, age two, pulled the first of several ling up through holes in the ice.



First Fire of 2022



Pouring Molten Aluminum



Aluminum Ingot



Pulling a Ling Through the Ice

Mitchell Hegman

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