5/6/08 – There has been good progress in ice melting over the last two days. The ice is now too degraded to even bother drilling a hole. It should go out on Sawbill today or tomorrow at the latest. Roy Wonder, our clueless Deputy of Outfitter Security, decided that the skim ice near the shore was plenty strong enough to hold a terrier. He piled in head first and took an impressively deep dive through the thin ice. He climbed out by himself and acted like it never happened. – Bill

Black ice on Sawbill. Today is warm and windy with thundershowers coming later in the day. This may be the end of the ice!