LIFE ON THE EDGE

LIFE ON THE EDGE...

..OR, ON THE BRINK

...LOOKS LIKE THE WIND SLED WILL BE IN SERVICE A WHILE LONGER

Wednesday, 8:30 AM.  9 degrees F, wind WSW, very light.  The sky is again overcast, the humidity is 80% and the barometer is trending up, now at 30.09".  With little or no wind, our walk this morning was quite pleasant and comfortable, but some sun would be nice.
   There is a lot of unsafe ice on the channel and it looks like the Ice Road won't open for a while, and that the wind sled will keep running.  There is a pretty large patch of open water some distance off the Ice Road landing.  The pickup truck in the photo looks precarious to me, but then what do I know?  Only that mine wouldn't be there.
  I don't know if something went through the ice out there or if there's just a lot of debris floating around; even with field glasses I couldn't determine what had gone on.  Even the wind sled, although it is amphibious, seems to be picking its way pretty carefully across the ice to get to the landing.
  Come to think about it, the scene is rather analogous to life these days; precarious, with all of us living on the edge of things ill-defined but potentially very dangerous.  Debt, unemployment, dissension, unrest, oppression at home and abroad... wars and the rumors of wars...ominous signs are everywhere about us, and we are palpably worried about the futures of our children and grandchildren.