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Originally Posted by Turtle
I remember I was once looking for frogs and things on the banks of the rectangle-shaped lodge to the side of Nelson's farm. This would be around 1960. I stepped in, just at the shallow edge, and my feet started to slide down the sloping banks and into the deeper water. I panicked, not being able to swim, and the lodge looked very deep. After what seemed like an eternity my little brother reached for my hand and pulled me out. Never forgot that!  |
Be around that then wintertime Turtle, mates and me ventured out onto Nelson's Lodge when frozen. The groaning and cracking of the ice as it took the weight of 4 or 5 of us Woodnookers, scared the bejazus out of me and offski I went.