Here it is late March, and the temperatures are still only in the 30s here in the Lake Champlain region. To pass the time until Spring, I posted a contest this week to see who can guess when the ice on Lake Champlain will break up in front of my house. Guesses need to be in by Tuesday at 7pm! Here are the entries so far…
March 27 – 12 pm – jeniwrites (Sorry, Jeni…Ice is still solid out there!)
April 5 – 12pm – Barbara Baker
April 7 – 2:47pm – fairwinds2u
April 8 – tracyworld (what time, Tracy?)
April 9 – 4:00pm – Liza Martz
April 10 – 3pm – frieliegh
April 11 – 2:00 pm – dmcordell
April 12 – 2:15 pm – Jennifer Malphy
April 12 – Sarah Wones Tomp (What time, Sarah?)
April 12 -3:30 pm – jpetroroy
April 13 – 4:00 pm -Betsy Lynch
April 14 – 3:27 pm – docstymie
April 15 – (what time, Laura??) – Laura Pauling
April 15 – 6 pm – Melanie Swider
April 18 – 11 am – Kate Linnea
April 22 – 3pm – Mary Zisk
If you entered but didn’t leave a time with your date, please add that in a comment – otherwise, people who also included times automatically beat you if the ice breaks up on your day!
If you haven’t entered yet, you have one more day! Just leave a comment by 7pm Tuesday 3/29, with the date and time you think the ice will go out. (We’ll define that as the day/time that there are many floating chunks of ice instead of one big slab of ice between my house and the island a mile offshore, okay?) Whoever is closest wins one of my last ARCs of MARTY MCGUIRE, my new chapter book series with Scholastic coming May 1st.
I’m going with April 16 at 11 a.m.
Let’s make it 1:07!