Follow the story & travels of the
Andover Ice Bear winter 2010.
Marchy 17th, 2011- "Happy St, Patty's Day from the Ice
Bear at the Northpole".
The Ice Bear being the
"Party
Animal" he is, had to come
out one more time to toast and wish everyone a
Happy St.
Patty's Day.
"May there be.. Ice in your life.. spice in
your life.. all of your life"!
March 13th, 2011
If they go any further north, they'll be
going south, so it looks like it's
"mission accomplished" for the
northbound expedition. The trolls tagged
along because they heard there might be
some job openings at a nearby workshop.
This ends the winter saga of the
Ice-bear. Hope at this time of so much
serious and disturbing news worldwide,
these photos have been able to bring a
little lighthearted cheer to you.
The icebear cometh...out of hibernation
today. Hopes to reach final destination by
this evening.
March 8th, 2011
Some of Charlie Sheen's buddies stopped by
to celebrate Mardi Gras with the Ice Bear. He
decided to stay in hibernation until the
plane is shoveled out and the pilot has
clearance for final destination...Ho Ho Ho.
March 5th 2011
With heavy rains in the forecast, the
intrepid trio has hunkered down. A chartered
bush plane is on standby for a break in the
weather.
March 4th 2011
The thermometer and date stamp tell the
story. 20 below.
March 1st 2011
Heard from the ice bear. He claims he
decided to take a side trip
South-Of-The-Border before finally heading
north, but I think he just messed up reading
his GPS. Luckily he's found a couple of
sidekicks to help get him turned around.
Here are photos of them relaxing at a
cantina before they start the next leg. The
donkey is carrying extra snowballs to help
stem off the inevitable dehydration while
the flamingo is just up for a road trip.
Feb. 24th 2011
With snow
in the forecast, the ice bear thinks it's
perfect traveling weather. It is all packed,
has put on its Sunday Best and is headed
north for the summer.
Feb 24th 2011--- there's about to be another
deposit in that Ice Bear's Snow bank
account.
Feb. 18th 2011
The snow/ice bear has been saving
diligently for retirement and is very
pleased with it's substantial (snow)bank
account.
Feb. 5th 2011
With all the snow that we've gotten, the ice
bear is concerned about avalanches. He wants
to make sure he can be located in case one
hits!
Ice
Bear with lighted hat, slowly becoming snowbear as another storm
hits Andover. 8 pm - 3 inches...9 pm - 4 inches... you can do the math.
January 2011
The Ice Bear
Jan. 24th 2011-
The Ice Bear is in heaven as the subzero
temperatures have hit Andover for the past
few days. -15 degrees here at our house
today. In some places -46 degrees windchill.
Don't leave your pets out at night when with
windchill it's 30 to 40 below. Stay inside
if you don't have to be out. Bundle up!
Not really close to the coldest temps we've
ever had. On Jan. 16th 2009, a record
setting cold weather day, at our house it
was 35 below and the coldest recorded
temperature ever (since records have been
kept) in Maine was 52 below that day. We are
expecting more snow later in the week and
warmer temperatures back up into the 20's.
"The Ice Bear", covered
with snow from the latest storm, has decided to dump skiing for
hockey...the last storm must have brought down some Canadian
air". Thanks for the pics Ross. The Ice
Bear Pics- sent to me by Ross Swain & Christine.
Cool..no pun intended..I like
it..Great job!
More
January Pics
Winter
2011- A
little Ice Hockey Anyone?
Winter of
2009-2010
The Common Christmas 2010
The General Store Christmas 2010
This
huge Christmas Tree
decoration as you can see is
on the barn down at what we
old timers call the Poor
Farm. Quite a sight when lit
at night. Some of these I
took before it was quite
dark so you can get an idea
of the design and how it's
displayed. It really looks
much bigger in person. My
digital camera doesn't do a
good job of showing the
actual size. Larry Costa
owns this now and is still
in the process of renovating
the farm. I think it is
going to look real nice when
he gets done. I'm sure a lot
of time and money has been
put into it so far.
Andover Winter 2008/2009
The 2008-2009 winter was a cold one with a
new record being set in Maine for the coldest temperature of
-52 below zero without factoring in any wind chill. Not as
much snowfall as last year but still what I would call an
average winter like when I grew up in the 1950s 60s and 70s.
Brrrrrrrrrr.....Happy New
Year 2009
Jan. 16th, 2009- The "Deep
Freeze" has hit Andover. It was 35 below last
night.
Should be close to the same tonight. That's
almost 70 degrees below freezing, trust me- it's
cold. On top of that it's windy so add another
15-20 degrees colder for the wind chill factor.
Christmas week in Andover.
The Common after the last snow
storm.
Winter
2008- has hit Andover and
there will be a white Christmas. We got
about 18" of snow on this last storm with
more on the way.
2008- Oh Oh.. they must have heard me...here comes
the ducks, looking for a snack.
Don't you know you're supposed to fly south for the winter?
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