I'm like Joan - missed a couple of days and had a lot of catching up to do. Hope y'all don't mind, but here are some thoughts going back a couple of days. My grandmother lived on the north shore of Utah Lake in the early 20th C. and told me about watching some inebriated gentlemen in a Model T driving across the ice one spring. The car was splashing through huge puddles of meltwater on top of the ice, and the ice was probably getting pretty thin. She expected to see them sink at any moment, but they made it to safety. So, to answer the question, "is there really enough ice - ever- to support, even a small plane?" Grandma would have said, "Yes, and with enough to support four drunks, too." Most memorable observational moment: If I have to limit the answer to one telescopic event, I'd choose watching Saturn occultation of 28 Sagittarii, July 3, 1989. I only had my homemade 10-inch Newt for a few months and it still ranks as No. 1. I've been fortunate to distinctly see color in the Pleiades, M42, Lagoon and Trifid nebulae, but not much for the past few years. I've also been fortunate to know all the great folks that I've met through my astronomy interests. Best observational moment ever: Watching an orange-red fireball with distinct surface features as it flew over my head, trailing sparks, embers and multiple tails of fire. Or so it seemed - I was only four or five. For a lifetime event, I was much too young. I wish I had seen it later in life. Best astronomically-related event: November, 1972: First experiment with a reality-altering.never mind. Kim