Snow Day

It's been snowing.
It's been snowing a lot.  But today Clider and I had no question where we wanted to be, Anderson Lake. Of course if the ski style mountain was open we would be there instead. After all, about 20" of snow fell in my driveway alone! The ride out was not nearly as bad as it could have been and by the time we got there it looked as if The Tip was the place to be.

before

Clider took a nice fall into the rocks on the way down and somehow got a piece of lumber stuck in his boot in the process but we made it out to The Tip with plenty of time to set a beautiful spread and settle on to the ice. In my mind we looked like two turds in a punchbowl but Clider assured me that we were invisible. In the long run we were fine because the ducks that were around last week were nowhere to be found today.  A few fliers came by but they wanted nothing to do with us.

after

We changed the decoys and we changed our blind but the end result was he same. No ducks wanted in. The few smarmy bastards that did come by avoided us like the plague that we were. I blame Peat. After a bit Clider took a walk, and I figured that it was my chance but, lo and behold, not even a Clider walk brought birds by.  We talked aboot how Fred G. has the best place to shoot ducks in the whole wide world and how we certainly would have better luck if Otis was with us, but in the end we just got cold and called it a day.  As a nice side note we stopped at the market on the way home and had a nice fresh sammy made for us by the friendly lady behind the counter. I bought a lottery ticket on the way back and when we win I will buy a nice Harrison house so that we could have slept in till the ducks showed up and warmed up before the ride home.  That and also to have a few extra million to spend.
GBCH