Still warm/sunny.
We went to Wendys for a hamburger supper last night. Won't do that again.
Things still dragging on here. Unfortunately M is creating a situation where her Mom is becoming more dependent. Last night 3 times instead of ringing the buzzer for Lodge help.
I should add one more little thing about Skook that I remembered last night. When we lived at Fort Nelson I made a harness for him and in the winter hooked him to the kids toboggan, he could pull three of them with ease and seemed to enjoy dong it.
Speaking of winter - I wonder how many of you reading this have ever snowshoed? If you have, have you ever snowshoed across a frozen lake? The first few times it is a unique experience. As you go across the ice you create pressure cracks that go zinging out across the ice, It doesn't matter that you may have up to three feet of ice under you, the first few times it scare the hell out of you. Eventually you get reasonably used to it. The main thing is to get away from the shore particularly if there is a steep bank. It is here that you could have shell ice and break through. But at least if you break through it won't be deep. Now a days people use a fairly small snow shoe for recreational activities but when working from them we would use one of several sizes, it depended on your weight. Back in those days I found that 12" x 48" were just right for me. The length better distributed our weight and the width an length were better for breaking trail in snow that was anywhere from a foot to six feet deep. Also as moose had a habit of following along the trails (easier wading) the longer 'shoe made it easier to go along the broken trails with out getting the toe caught.
When I think of snow shoeing I can't really visualize it as recreation, I put too many hundreds of miles in working on them.
Spring was always a tough time because they were strung with rawhide which was varnished or shellacked, in the spring the wet snow would remove the coating and the rawhide would stretch and stretch making walking difficult. All of us that used them for work became quite adept and would have no trouble maintaining a 4- 5 mph pace on a broken trail.
We went to Wendys for a hamburger supper last night. Won't do that again.
Things still dragging on here. Unfortunately M is creating a situation where her Mom is becoming more dependent. Last night 3 times instead of ringing the buzzer for Lodge help.
I should add one more little thing about Skook that I remembered last night. When we lived at Fort Nelson I made a harness for him and in the winter hooked him to the kids toboggan, he could pull three of them with ease and seemed to enjoy dong it.
Speaking of winter - I wonder how many of you reading this have ever snowshoed? If you have, have you ever snowshoed across a frozen lake? The first few times it is a unique experience. As you go across the ice you create pressure cracks that go zinging out across the ice, It doesn't matter that you may have up to three feet of ice under you, the first few times it scare the hell out of you. Eventually you get reasonably used to it. The main thing is to get away from the shore particularly if there is a steep bank. It is here that you could have shell ice and break through. But at least if you break through it won't be deep. Now a days people use a fairly small snow shoe for recreational activities but when working from them we would use one of several sizes, it depended on your weight. Back in those days I found that 12" x 48" were just right for me. The length better distributed our weight and the width an length were better for breaking trail in snow that was anywhere from a foot to six feet deep. Also as moose had a habit of following along the trails (easier wading) the longer 'shoe made it easier to go along the broken trails with out getting the toe caught.
When I think of snow shoeing I can't really visualize it as recreation, I put too many hundreds of miles in working on them.
Spring was always a tough time because they were strung with rawhide which was varnished or shellacked, in the spring the wet snow would remove the coating and the rawhide would stretch and stretch making walking difficult. All of us that used them for work became quite adept and would have no trouble maintaining a 4- 5 mph pace on a broken trail.
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