Pontoon Panorama
Thursday, December 8th, 2022 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kI’m giving myself comment amnesty, because it’s the only way forward.
I enjoyed several pontoon rides towards the end of summer, in my birthday-month.
The locks on the Yahara River which connects Mendota (the big lake we visited in 2020) and Monona are under repair, so the pontoon rides were much smoother.
Photographic proof: Madison's low skyline is dark against the final orange sunset glow, dividing calm gray lake and cloudless blue sky:
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Date: 2022-12-08 10:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-12-09 09:53 pm (UTC)Indeed. Days like those balance out today: 5 inches of snow that brought down a 1 ft diameter yellow pine branch.
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Date: 2022-12-10 05:22 pm (UTC)(I have a friend in Anchorage who was up to 20” earlier this week. I wouldn’t mind that maybe once a year, but it would be a LOT to deal with otherwise.)
At least we've got the infrastructure
Date: 2022-12-10 05:27 pm (UTC)I live in a between-the-wars suburb with curvy streets, and the plows have been by three times before 24 hours elapse.
MyGuy is deploying the chainsaw on the pine limb as I type.
I've had the misfortune to travel through Arkansas and Missouri during heavy wet snow storms, and 95% of the people have zero clue how to cope. Four inches of snow in Santa Fe shut the city right down.
Re: At least we've got the infrastructure
Date: 2022-12-10 05:50 pm (UTC)As a kid in Portland, schools shut down at ~3” of snow. (And as an adult I can tell you that Portlandians don’t know how to drive in the stuff.) A friend moved to Montana. She wrote me that schools there only closed at 3’!
Frequency and intensity definitely change acclimation.
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Date: 2022-12-09 02:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-12-09 09:54 pm (UTC)Thanks -- I've always enjoyed the wilds of Lake Mendota, and Monona is a completely different lake. The Ho-Chunk who settled here after the glaciers melted called this place 4 Lakes, and I love the land- (and lake-) scape.
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Date: 2022-12-09 03:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-12-09 09:55 pm (UTC)<3
I like this town.
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Date: 2022-12-09 04:32 am (UTC)My very great pleasure!
Date: 2022-12-09 09:57 pm (UTC)I still miss the oceans of my youth, but midwestern lakes are also pretty damn wonderful.
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Date: 2022-12-09 01:36 pm (UTC)Thanks!
Date: 2022-12-09 09:57 pm (UTC)I'm lucky to live in the middle of four lakes.
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Date: 2022-12-09 08:22 pm (UTC)Thanks
Date: 2022-12-09 09:58 pm (UTC)....that means a lot coming from you.
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Date: 2022-12-11 02:09 am (UTC)