11/18/08 – Sawbill Lake froze over for the second time today. This time it looks like it’s frozen for the season. Sadly, enough snow has fallen recently to mess up the possibility of good ice skating.

The ice on Sawbill Lake is (barely) thick enough to walk on. I didn’t dare go out over deep water and there were ominous cracking sounds underfoot.
On my daily run I noticed large, fresh wolf tracks running along ahead of me. At my turn around point I glanced up just in time to see the wolf emerge onto the road less than 100 feet in front of me. He was a perfect specimen of a grey wolf – wooly, healthy and alert. He was slightly startled to see me, but didn’t run away so much as strolled across the road a disappeared into the woods. It is a tremendous thrill to see a wild wolf at such close range. – Bill