Ice is nearly gone

Bob and I arrived on Thursday afternoon. Pipe and North Pipe Lakes were covered with a thin layer of ice starting about 15-20 feet from the shoreline. The temperatures have been in the 40s and it has been gray and drizzly.
We've seen wild turkeys, deer (8 in the meadow at 220th Av and W Pipe Lake Lane), woodpeckers, black birds, and a number of birds we can't identify. We are not experienced birders. On Saturday, Bob got a load of wood from Allen West on Hwy 8. It was a cold, drippy day but he got it stacked. Colleen, Richard, Nancy, Marian, and Gene came from Bone Lake, Minneapolis, and Taylors Fall to have dinner with us on Saturday night. We talked about Colleen and Nancy's trip to Boliva with Mano a Mano. We watched pictures of Bolivia and also pictures of our Siberian adventure. There was a lot more conversation too and the food was good.
This morning, Sunday, there were a lot of birds on the lake. Nearly all the ice is gone and what is left is very thin and thawing rapidly. We saw some brightly colored ducks, sea gulls, a pair of coots (?), and several others that could have been loons, but not quite... We had a dip in the hot tub. The temps have dropped into the 30s at night so it's been hard to get the water temperature up. Yesterday it was also windy which changed the effective temperatures to below zero. The sun has tried to break through the clouds today but without much success.
As always, we hate to leave the lake.