01-29-2003, 05:45 PM
[size 4][font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]BFT friends (I hope you're still friends when I finish this post),[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]The Dinner On Ice that so many plans have been made for and that I have been so looking forward to ... well, I'm calling it off.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]The weather, as I seen on one forcast, is calling for morning rain and afternoon rain/snow mix on Strawberry Reservoir Saturday.[/size][/font]
[url "http://web.ksl.com/phputil/weather/weather_parse.php?place=strawberry+res"][font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]http://web.ksl.com/phputil/weather/weather_parse.php?place=strawberry+res[/size][/font][/url]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Because I fear that weather like that will turn many away and makes for difficult Dutch oven cooking conditions, I truly regret that I think the best thing to do is to reschedule the get together for another place and/or time. Strawberry is known for it's wind and add to that rain ... and ice fishing could get kind of lonely.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Several of you already, via posts or PMs, have indicated that you will not be attending. And I completely understand that. One PM to me hit the nail on the head when he described some likely scenerios:[/size][/font][/size][font "Arial"][size 2]
"First, people will see the weather and decide not to show. Second people will show but leave early due to the fact that they froze their buts off in the wind. I have spent many days on the ice in the wind and its not fun. I don't know many who would spend two hours on the ice with no sun and the wind ripping through their warmth. Add the chance of getting wet to that and people are gone. Third, people show, stick it out through the weather and freeze to death but due to wind and water the Dutch oven dinner doesn't work out ... won't cook right."[/size][/font][size 4]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]He pretty much hit the nail on the head. I would much rather put on a big feed when the weather was much better and all were more inclined to come and enjoy. No doubt, many of you would still go ... die-hards. And I respect that too. But the forecast has made it so that a good count of just how many to prepare for would be hard to get.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Weather forecasters are right about as much as they are wrong. Yup, that storm could roll back to Sunday and leave Saturday beautiful. Believe me, I have thought about all that. Everything considered, I've made my decision and I will have to live with it.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Hopefully, all the plans and preparation that several of us have made won't be wasted ... I still would like to do it some day. Be thinking of some ideas ... maybe in the Spring, you all fishing out of boats and come in to the marina, under a pavilian, for dinner.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][#ff0000][size 2]PLEASE ... pass the word to those who might not see this post, that the DOI is officially OFF!.[/size][/#ff0000][/font][/size]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]The Dinner On Ice that so many plans have been made for and that I have been so looking forward to ... well, I'm calling it off.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]The weather, as I seen on one forcast, is calling for morning rain and afternoon rain/snow mix on Strawberry Reservoir Saturday.[/size][/font]
[url "http://web.ksl.com/phputil/weather/weather_parse.php?place=strawberry+res"][font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]http://web.ksl.com/phputil/weather/weather_parse.php?place=strawberry+res[/size][/font][/url]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Because I fear that weather like that will turn many away and makes for difficult Dutch oven cooking conditions, I truly regret that I think the best thing to do is to reschedule the get together for another place and/or time. Strawberry is known for it's wind and add to that rain ... and ice fishing could get kind of lonely.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Several of you already, via posts or PMs, have indicated that you will not be attending. And I completely understand that. One PM to me hit the nail on the head when he described some likely scenerios:[/size][/font][/size][font "Arial"][size 2]
"First, people will see the weather and decide not to show. Second people will show but leave early due to the fact that they froze their buts off in the wind. I have spent many days on the ice in the wind and its not fun. I don't know many who would spend two hours on the ice with no sun and the wind ripping through their warmth. Add the chance of getting wet to that and people are gone. Third, people show, stick it out through the weather and freeze to death but due to wind and water the Dutch oven dinner doesn't work out ... won't cook right."[/size][/font][size 4]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]He pretty much hit the nail on the head. I would much rather put on a big feed when the weather was much better and all were more inclined to come and enjoy. No doubt, many of you would still go ... die-hards. And I respect that too. But the forecast has made it so that a good count of just how many to prepare for would be hard to get.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Weather forecasters are right about as much as they are wrong. Yup, that storm could roll back to Sunday and leave Saturday beautiful. Believe me, I have thought about all that. Everything considered, I've made my decision and I will have to live with it.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Hopefully, all the plans and preparation that several of us have made won't be wasted ... I still would like to do it some day. Be thinking of some ideas ... maybe in the Spring, you all fishing out of boats and come in to the marina, under a pavilian, for dinner.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][#ff0000][size 2]PLEASE ... pass the word to those who might not see this post, that the DOI is officially OFF!.[/size][/#ff0000][/font][/size]
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