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| Winter Weekend March 3rd & 4th, 2006 |
| The moon was setting by the time we made it up on Friday. MrsNemo & I worked on the webcam for hours with limited success. It is not yet "live" but is downloading to a local ftp server at the highest resolution possible for the camera. (Meg's comment; Andy included me as helper just to be nice -- he was the one who figured it out. I was just providing moral support.) |
| As the sun came up on Saturday all the snow became fearfully visible. There is plenty of the white stuff on anything outside. I would say about one and a half feet on the ground. We tried to piggyback the images collecting on the local ftp server on the weather station's ftp transfer to a public site (The firewall is not configured to allow internet users past to get the the ftp server currently getting the images). It should have worked. |
| I particularly like the snow "hat" that forms on all weber grills. Images are currently being captured every 2 minutes from just before sunrise until well after sunset on the local server. I will get those images going to knottlane on St Partick's Day. Ice-out will be viewed! |
| The ice is about 20 inches thick with a foot and a half layer of snow on top of that. Walking around on the lake is quite a chore. |
| The forts from the bottle rocket war are still up and shrinking. (mostly) |
| The body of water in front of the Liquor Lode is getting pretty deep. There are rumors that divers had to pull a car out after the driver foolishly used the mailbox. Talk is that the DNR will be stocking it soon with many species of fish including musky. |
| I'll get the webcam moving those images it's taking to a public site the next time we are up (March 17th). Until then be assured the ice is thick and the snow deep. |