No swimming at the lake today

Ok, so maybe I'm fishing for a reason to make a posting today, but, I felt the need to state the obvious. This is a little state park just a couple of blocks from our house (we actually live on a small peninsula that juts into the middle of this lake, and this park is at one point of that peninsula).

This time of year, this park is almost packed with ice fishermen and people out enjoying the ice (really? you think. yeah, believe it or not, there are motorcycle races, sledding fun, and snowmobiles out on the lake on a daily basis). As the ice has just formed in the past few days, it is too thin to venture out on, so this place looks like an odd ghost town on a day when the temperature was 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

Its too cold to do much of anything, save for driving our kids around to their various activities on this day. Normally, we'd grab the dogs and head out for a walk ourselves. This is a most beautiful place to go in the Winter. You can walk for miles in each direction and still run into lots of other people doing the same thing.

But, no swimming at the lake today... or much of anything, for that matter.

jp