Subj : Dumb To : AUGUST ABOLINS From : Rob Mccart Date : Fri Dec 05 2025 09:21:48 RM> Sometimes I wonder how I survived to this age... B) AA>Do you have ample accident/disability insurance? :D Who'd be foolish enough to give it to me... B) BTW.. I was talking about carefully walking out on the thin ice 2 days ago to get water, staying where it was only a foot deep water or so.. Today when I went out I started to re-cut the hole and it seemed to be really solid (I was jumping up and down) so I went out to deeper water to chop the new hole and I had to cut through 6 inches of ice. I couldn't believe how much it had thickened in 2 days. I hauled out my big wooden box with a lid that I put over the hole once winter finally gets here, so now I just have to wonder if things are going to warm up again before true winter gets here and I'd have to pull it all out again.. I got a note (and phone call) from Hydro today saying they will be turning my power off on Dec 17th for 4 hours to work on some local lines. I hope it's no longer than that, which would be really annoying.. and maybe, with luck, it will not be quite as cold as it was today. (High/Low -13c/-17c 10f/-2f) You can't really go by their time estimates because my last 2 power outages, one they said it would be off for 4.5 hours, and it was off for 10 minutes, and the other they said would last 5 hours and it was off for 27 hours.. --- * SLMR Rob * There's one fool at least in every married couple * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (618:250/1) .