With the recent warm we lost pretty much all of the snow we received a week ago.  Over Thanksgiving weekend some private owners came up and worked on their houses.  With the weather the way it is right now I would advise the rest of you get up and check your house over and make improvements needed now instead of waiting any longer.

Today marks a milestone so to speak to me.  The guy that started all of this with his wife Phyllis.  Clark Lyback (my Dad) would have been 100 years old today if he was still alive.  He passed away in 1984 unexpectedly at the age of 68, and that is when my life changed forever.  There isn’t a day when I’m out there on the ice that I don’t think of him.  Sometimes the thoughts are happy and other times they bring sadness. You would think that after 32 years the hurt of loss would go away but I guess it doesn’t.   You just learn to live with it.  I’ve attached a picture of him when he got his first V-plow on his Jeep for the ice roads…if he only knew what he started almost 70 years ago…    🙂

Keep a Tight Line!   Eddy

Our first winter storm blew thru over the last couple days and left us with 4-8 inches of snow. All the trees near the lake were snow and ice covered and a lot of branches blew down in the 40 mph winds.  The water temps had to really take a tumble the last couple days.

The next two to three weeks we will be working on  finishing up the loose ends and getting ready for first ice. Hopefully mother nature will get us out there in a reasonable amount of time. This will be my 40th something year out there and even though things are getting a little harder and slower to do I still am getting excited about it.  And as long as I feel that way you will see me out there….

Keep a Tight Line!    Eddy

Well we are finally going to see a change of seasons. This fall up to this point has reminded me of a few years over the last forty some that it stayed warmer late then all of a sudden it happened.  Who knows these days with all the changes that the world is going thru..

Anyways, a presidential election is finally over and the country can hopefully see some changes in the way things happen in our government.  Don’t know if it’s going to be good or bad, but glad at least something else will be tried. After seeing what this country had evolved into over the last 30 plus years, (and it’s government and policies) I am glad it finally happened…

We are getting the rentals just about wrapped up and are working on servicing the trucks to get them ready for the season. I’m hoping we will have a little earlier start like 2013. But if we can get everyone out there by Christmas and actually have a Christmas week like we used to it would be a blessing.

Keep a Tight Line!     Eddy