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Another year in the late March, April thaw, a great ice sheet floating adrift ground itself against that same neighbors low stone seawall and the ice was ground into ice cube size pieces, which piled up on top of the wall the same height as the lawn behind, so that when it was done a great long wall of ice cubes about two feet high and thick was left spilled over onto the lawn. Quite a sight in the sunlight.
When we were much older driving cars, there was a couple of years running that who ever happened to be driving on a particular night took their car onto the ice say if one wanted to take a car onto the ice which we did one year. There was an easy slope from the parking lot across channel from the island. This would be a late January or early February that the ice was thickest and safest, say if one wanted to drive a car onto the ice which we did a few times.
The first time was at night when we snuck onto the ice around ten PM with lights off. The lake had only about an inch of snow. The concept here was to get up to sixty miles an hour and then slam on the brakes and turn the wheel all the way left or right, and spin doughnuts around and around until the car by friction slowed to a stop. In daytime with an inch of snow covering it would fly into the air so that inside was just a white haze and outside a great flurry of white enveloped the car.
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