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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Walking on Water

Yes anyone can walk on water if it's frozen, but for the past few weeks this guy (we'll call him Jesus) had been walking out on the lake after only 2 weeks of 30 degree weather and into 60 degree weather just to fish.

The other day he finally took a raft out by walking on the ice at the edge, and taking the raft out on the melted areas. This is only early January in Cleveland. Not really frozen lake kind of weather.

After he "docked" his raft at the edge of the ice, he bounced up and down on it, testing to see if it would hold him. I'm not quite sure how smart that was. We've been taking bets when he'll fall through.

We've been watching him for weeks now. His antics have been entertaining. We don't know who he is, as he lives on the other side of the lake. And we don't know everybody here.

As I watched him bouncing on the ice, I had a thought. Maybe he's not just obsessed with fishing. Maybe he has no money and he's just hungry. What a sad thought. Now that I thought of that, I kind of hope that he is just obsessed with fishing, and not starving. I know how that feels, I have foraged a bit when we were low on food in the spring.

Well, we're heading for colder weather and I'm sure the lake will freeze up again. I'm betting that Jesus will be walking on water again very soon.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

A Little Blizzard or Creative ways to Sled

I was washing my mothers old cookie sheets this morning and was remembering how, when my kids went over to her house when it snowed, she pulled out those same cookie sheets and let the kids slide down the little hill by her condo on them. The kids loved that more than the sleds we had.

Yesterday we had a little blizzard. The weather here on the North Coast has been terrible. 60 degrees and no snow all November and December, but finally we got winter weather when it was officially winter. Blustery, frigid, and snowy.

Today the kids went out and had fun. They have sleds, so we didn't pull out the cookie sheets, but Luna does have a favorite toy bucket she likes to empty and climb into, so there she is in her bucket in the snow.

Dink preferred the sled. We live on a hill so it's pretty darn fun, as long as you can get the sled to stop before you slide into the lake at the bottom of the very steep hill. It's on the other side of the road, but the hill is so steep, if you get a good head start, you can pass the road and over to the lake.

So if you have snow, don't let lack of a sled keep you from having fun. I've even seen plastic garbage bags, plastic yoga mats, or summer rafts used to sled on,