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[wbb]

The lake should be thawed out, so we are heading out to retire the decoys for the year. Bet they are all over the lake

[braeske]

Weather here is good, so hope you are getting the same. Give us a report in any case.

- Chris
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[Tinpig]

Years ago, when my kids were in school, we always went to my wife's sister's for Easter school vacation. They lived on the Chester River which is a tributary of the Chesapeake on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
We'd leave here still freezing and snowing...but one day's drive and the daffies were up and the grass was getting green in the sunny south. Every day my youngest son and I paddled up and down the Chester in a canoe searching the backwaters for winter flotsam and jetsam and enjoying that spring mud smell.

I'm ashamed to say we ended up with a fair collection of duck and goose decoys and a Cabelas Gore-Tex camo insulated parka. Nothing marked wbb, though. My son was reading "Huckleberry Finn" at the time, and I believe he was hoping to come across the jacket's former occupant.
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[wbb]

Ol' Huck may well be (should be, anyway) still out on some river, somewhere.

We rounded up all the decoys, and boy were they all over the lake.
All present & accounted for, with a few chewed noses. (Some critter likes to chew on decoy noses, and gets one or two a year. The tooth marks are small, pointy, and sharp, and I suspect it is muskrats out for a stroll on the ice after the lake is frozen.)
I did the rowing, and the shoulders are good and sore. But it is a good feeling sore, if you know what I mean.