HB COLD

It's quite possible this post will bring a lot of calm to a lot of you. Karoliina and I were finally able to strap on our snowshoes and hit the lake, only to find out that the season of the snowshoe has ended. It's been so warm here lately that there was almost no snow on the ground. Sure we went anyway, after all I had taken the morning off of work so we could get out there at the best time - before the snow melts and gets too soft to walk on, but we were at least 2 weeks late on this one. The lake is still frozen solid, but the little snow that sits on top of it is frozen soft. Even with our snowshoes we were sinking into the mess and the snow was sinking into our socks. We went out onto the island in the lake, but didn't dare to go any further out into the water. I really wanted to go again today at sunset, but it's simply too risky. But we can take away from this the fact that we both really enjoyed ourselves and could do this more regularly when the timing is right. I'll admit here and now that we are no skiing family - of course cross country is still a possibility - but we may have just become a snow shoe family. So that settles that, there will be no more talk of getting out onto the lake for the rest of the Spring.