The ice is decomposing beautifully. Not just slowly thinning out, but doing all kinds of interesting things.

There’s four inches of dense, smooth slush over seven inches of hard, pencilated ice. Almost a foot of material, but not strong enough to hold a person. If you were to reach into that hole and snap off a chunk it would look like this:

Spring meeting still planned for first Sunday in May, but we haven’t found a venue yet. Lake Farm Inn still on the fence. And conditions on Damariscotta are getting close to ideal for a motorboat ride: