Safely Cut Pond Ice

Reader Contribution by Sherry Leverich Tucker
Published on February 14, 2014
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I’m a summertime girl. I really love sunshine, working hard and getting really hot. It doesn’t bother me. When I’ve been working hard, nothing is better than inhaling a quart of ice tea or biting into that cold watermelon and cantaloup chilling in the fridge.

Just as much as I love summer and sunshine, I dislike winter, clouds and cold. I wear wool, layer clothing, and bundle up as much as possible to keep from getting chilled. In my mind, nothing is more uncomfortable than getting chilled!

Winter’s Silver Lining?

But, being the eternal optimist that I am, I think there are some bright sides to this bitter cold winter. It was (finally) a good hay season last summer, which makes it easy to feed the cattle and keep their bellies warm! Fortunately, we haven’t had any freezing-rain storms that have taken out the electricity. That can certainly make a bad winter even worse. I can’t help but think that all the sub-zero temperatures that we have endured this winter, which has not been the norm in the very mild winters that we have had the last few years, is helping kill bugs, germs, and other “bad” imports that have had an easy time surviving our previous mild winters. I am also in hopes that some weeds that have become “perennial,” because their roots haven’t been froze out, will die as well.

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