Climate Change?

My pal Sid put his boat in the water last Saturday, March 31.  We had a couple of inches of snow on the peninsula early Friday - but otherwise it has been unseasonably warm.

The local Gannet paper - The Door County Advocate (celebrating 150 years of continuous publishing) has a column a couple of times a week witth news items from the past.

Here's a couple of March events that caught my eye:

100 Years Ago:  1912  W.C. Perterson, Sister Bay, hauled 18,000 feet of lumber across from Menomonee last week, using one team and three sleighs.

And H.J. Pleck on Friday drove down from Sister Bay on the ice with his auto, having covered the distance of about 35 miles in a trifle over three hours.

125 Years Ago:  1887 The building purchased from Joseph Bradle by Jacob Trossen was placed on runners last Friday and drawn across the bay ice by one team of horses, the expense incurred being only $8.

And a gentleman cut a hole in the ice near Green Island and reports that in that location it was 28 inches thick, and very solid.  Reports from Sister Bay are that the ice is three and a half feet thick.

Go figure...