Home on the Range: Frozen Lake

Is anyone still reading this? Sorry I have not posted in forever! We had a wonderful Christmas in Pinedale with just the two of us. We figured we will never have one of those again! We also had Christmas dinner with a group of couples from church, which was a great time filled with so much good food. Mickey took the week off from Christmas until New Years so we had lots of time to spend together, which was so fun. It was definitely a shock when he had to go back to work--I loved having him home with me that whole time.

On New Years Eve we heard stories of the lake "freezing clear" and were hoping it would happen again this year so we could see it. Apparently it's only happened twice in the last 10 years so our expectations weren't too high. BUT, since its been just cold with not much snow, it happened! Freezing clear means you can (for the most part) see through the ice and it doesn't get all cloudy and white like some frozen lakes do.

We headed out to the lake yesterday afternoon to see if the rumors were true. Driving up we thought they weren't because it looked like water. Then we saw people ice skating in the middle of the lake and figured it probably really was frozen. My favorite was this person ice skating and towing their dog around on a sled.

Here's Mickey venturing out onto the ice. He went farther out than John or I were willing to go.

Did I mention the whole time we could hear it cracking?!?! It was so scary. John wanted to get our picture together but as I started walking out to where Mickey was there was a huge crack and I freaked out. Thankfully JD got an action shot of me saying NO WAY!

Mickey moved closer and we got a good pic!

Here's looking down into a really shallow part...you can see the bottom of the lake. (It looks cloudy here but then further you go out, the clearer it gets. I just wasn't going to go out any farther...I'm pregnant people!)