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February 10, 2018

Frozen in their Tracks

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So earlier this year - January 17 to be exact - I went out to my truck to find THIS. Minus NINE degrees outside. I had some errands to run, but my poor truck was struggling with the cold.

I know, I know, North Dakota thinks I'm whining, but the truth is, temperature is relative, and down this far south we are not accustomed to seeing this kind of thing.

Neither, apparently, are the wintering birds, because as I was driving over the river, I noticed that it was frozen absolutely solid. It doesn't flow very fast anyway, and it's extremely shallow because the local power plant siphons off most of it into a lake for cooling water usage.

Hmmmm. That's interesting. I've never actually SEEN the river freeze solid before. And then I saw the geese. Along the shore, legs frozen into the water. Lucky that this part of the river is in town, so they're protected from anyone wanting to take a pot shot at them. But still. Poor birds.

It DID warm up a bit later that day, and an hour later when I came past on my way home, the sun had worked its magic, the river was moving again, and the birds were gone.

Still, it was an amazing thing to see them stuck like that. They didn't seem to be overly distressed about it, but that's only because it was too cold for the kids on their four-wheelers to be tearing up the sand dunes.

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For the Scraplift the Person Before You. I lifted SusanneG's layout "Family" which you can see here:
https://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/509563/view/6064359/-1/0/0.html

I also am turning it in to the Music Inspiration challenge. My song this round was "If You Came Back From Heaven" which has a line in it that says, "it would freeze me in my tracks." Lucky me to have a picture that fits!


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