{"id":7402,"date":"2014-03-06T21:16:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T21:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2014-03-06T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T21:22:40","slug":"the-big-thaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/the-big-thaw\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Thaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7405\" alt=\"ice2 south haven 030614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ice2-south-haven-030614.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ice2-south-haven-030614.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ice2-south-haven-030614-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ice2-south-haven-030614-210x281.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Big Thaw is not here, not today. We had a good start yesterday and the snow is off the police car\u2019s blue flanks, but it lingers elsewhere. It is gray and hovering below freezing, but the happy voices on the radio tell us that we will be up to the sixties by this weekend.<br \/>\nice3 lake michigan.jpg<\/p>\n<p>Be still, my heart. Not today, but soon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7407\" alt=\"winter 1-030614-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/winter-1-030614-3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/winter-1-030614-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/winter-1-030614-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/winter-1-030614-3-210x281.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not back in Michigan. By the time the Bay turns up there back into blue water, it might be August. The Webbs of Kalamazoo sent me these three pictures of an outing to the Lake Michigan coast the other day. They make me shiver.<\/p>\n<p>There is a bunch of other stuff to talk about, that thing in the Senate, and the stand off in Crimea, and stalemate about the German family that applied for asylum because they were prohibited from home schooling their kids. The climate thing and all the rest of it is tantalizing, but you know what? It is still too cold.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2014 Vic Socotra<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<br \/>\nTwitter: @jayare303w<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7406\" alt=\"ice3 lake michigan 030614-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ice3-lake-michigan-030614-2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ice3-lake-michigan-030614-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ice3-lake-michigan-030614-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ice3-lake-michigan-030614-2-374x281.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Thaw is not here, not today. We had a good start yesterday and the snow is off the police car\u2019s blue flanks, but it lingers elsewhere. It is gray and hovering below freezing, but the happy voices on the radio tell us that we will be up to the sixties by this weekend. 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