The First Weekend of Deer Hunting
November 19th through 21st   
The ice has started on the north end of the lake.  Wabikon was open on Saturday morning and completely frozen over by late afternoon.  Ice in for Lucerne could be early this year.
Most of Saturday was spend doing cabin chores and not hearing gun shots.  By evening, the soups were done and all were treated to a great northwoods sunset.
pickled eggs...
There was a special bar night for the skunked on Saturday night that featured 4 homemade soups, bread, beer...
smoke rings...
cigars...
and flaming shots.
carefully layered shots...
At the dump, the large pile of brush that was growing all Summer/Fall was smoldering down.
By 11:30 PM, cigars were nubbed and no one was thristy anymore.
Some snow survived the above freezing temperatures.
Many trees did not survive the big wind storm a few weeks ago.
There were branches, tree tops and full trees down all over the north end of the lake.
Not even wind chimes were spared.
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Unlike last year, there was no golf this opening day.  The temperature may have crept over freezing, but it never felt like anything but cold.  The fire danger is low and there are iced over puddles all around the lake.  With the ground so saturated, Lucerne is poised to jump if we get a wet winter.  A wet spring would be good too.  We'll be up next weekend to finish closing the bar, check on the advance of the ice and get a final lake level measurement.

--Nemo put on a sweater, turned up the heat and was still cold.