When?

I am trying to patiently wait for ice.  I am about out of patience.  Pretty much every day I check, double-check the forecasts and long-range forecasts.  It ain’t looking good.

I am ready.  The tree is up.

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The lights are hung.

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Even the missletoad.

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I am ready for ice!

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And this is all we get:

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“70 degrees in November”????  It is even worse in December!!!!!

Don’t tell me how great this weather is.  I am losing patience.

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Cannot come soon enough!

Enjoy the weekend, if you can.

About daryl bauer

Daryl is a lifelong resident of Nebraska (except for a couple of years spent going to graduate school in South Dakota). He has been employed as a fisheries biologist for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission for 25 years, and his current tour of duty is as the fisheries outreach program manager. Daryl loves to share his educational knowledge and is an avid multi-species angler. He holds more than 120 Nebraska Master Angler Awards for 14 different species and holds more than 30 In-Fisherman Master Angler Awards for eight different species. He loves to talk fishing and answer questions about fishing in Nebraska, be sure to check out his blog at outdoornebraska.org.

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