Subj : I finally got my license
To   : DaiTengu
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Oct 26 2020 08:09:00

 Da>  Reminds me of the old "Dead baby joke"

  You have too much time on your hands. :P

 Da>  Last year was pretty mild here (Wisconsin). It got cold early, but
 Da> then was warm all through the end of November and December. I'm an avid
 Da> ice fisherman, and ice fishing was completely rubbish. Lake Winnebago
 Da> never froze enough to drive on, and many winter events were cancelled
 Da> in February due to the warm temperatures and sketchy ice conditions.

  I never tried fishing for ice cubes <G>. Seriously, most folks forget
that ice freezes from the top down, and tragically, many folks lose their
lives from hypothermia by falling through the ice into the frigid waters.
There is quite a bit of winter weather in the southern Plains this morning
(Monday) with winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings across
portions of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas, among other areas.

 Da> I'd really like to see a good, hard freeze in late December that will
 Da> set us up for a nice ice fishing season this year. I really need it.

  I'd like the cold to kill the insects off...but it has to come in hard
and fast, so the critters don't have time to burrow into the warm ground.

 Da>  12m was open today, briefly, but I'm still having antenna issues, so I
 Da> haven't been able to get a decent SWR on anything above 20m (nothing
 Da> tunable).

  In talking to folks yesterday, 20m would be great, then conditions would
drop like the proverbial rock. I'm hoping with the time change this coming
weekend, that might help things.

 Da> ... This tagline's just for you.

  You're so kind. :)

Daryl

.... Who needs veggies and nutrition? Give me the luscious fat!!
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