• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    My parents lived in a small town called Yellowknife in Canada many years ago, before there was a highway there. Float planes would land on Great Slave Lake until it froze over, then skid planes. In the spring when the ice got thin, there was a pool collected by the first pilot who landed a float plane. They would come in and gently skim the ice to break it up before settling onto the water. Just occurred to me as I typed this, I never asked what happened if somebody tried it too soon and the ice wouldn’t break. Unfortunately it’s too late to ask now, my parents are both gone.

        • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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          17 hours ago

          There’s decent odds the land line for the house still has the same number. What’s the worst that can come from a phone call? I mean besides having to go into hiding at a clown college.

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            9 hours ago

            They only had a landline, and I don’t remember it. Just the ones from previous houses many years earlier. Again, why are we talking about my dead parents’ phone?

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              4 hours ago

              I bet they wondered if you could call and ask the current resident of your parents old house about the planes breaking the ice.