Ice

As you may already know, a facet of my community contribution involves hosting Saturday Evening Cocktail hour. And in addition to making the drinks, I gather the ice that goes in them.

The ice at the bottom of the glaciers is over 1000 years old. It has been compressed to the point that it has little or no air bubbles in it. As the glaciers calve, you can find this ice floating in the local area. It is very dense so it sits low in the water, and it is almost invisible since it is as clear as glass when it's in the water. This is the pure freshwater ice we seek to keep our drinks cold. Hence, its name- Bar Ice.

So every once in a while, I will get some friends to help me go shopping for some good bar ice. We'll toodle around out on the water looking for a piece that is clear and just the right size to last us a while but still be small enough that we can get it in the boat.

Perhaps we were a little too eager about this one.