Yesterday, Thursday, April 11, most all of the ice disappeared from the area between FL-3, Gov Isl, Timber Isl, Mark Isl & Bear Isl. On Wednesday, it was all a pretty solid, big gray slushy mess, and yesterday it was about 90% open water, save for the shorelines along Mark & Timber Islands.
It is now time to replace all those popped & disappeared aluminum rivets on my antique aluminum dock with about 100 1 1/4" x #10 stainless pan head, sheet metal screws..........game-on........and, oh yeah.....to power-wash the old mess because that never got done either!
What I could have for a nice new dock if my great big stinky property tax was not paying the pensions for all the "retired" town, school & county former employees so's they can be driv'n around in gas-guzzl'n, late-model pickup trucks!
In Lake Winnipesaukee, olde aluminum docks from the 1950's never rust, they just loose their rivets and go to pieces!
So, when did aluminum first show up on the local scene? Could be it had something to do with World War II and Grumman airplanes?