What to do on a winter day.

I had a slow day today since there is no ice fishing yet. The lake is not freezing at the shore because it is insulated with some snow and only about 2-3" of ice so far under what i call fake ice. There are a lot of people that say the ice 6 inches thick but when it comes to my inspection of the ice i do not call freezing slush and snow for this total. There has already been some people go thru since they think it is thick enough. I think the lake out in the middle will be good since it did not get any snow on it.
 So today we made a couple bird feeders out of a pvc pipe. I google it and it looks like it will work as far as keeping the squirrels out but here in Northern MN the little critters are a little extra hungry so they seem to work harder to get food. Time will tell if it works. We did try and flood the lake right at shore so the boys can go ice skating but i think we need to do some more tomorrow.
 we plan on building some wood bird houses tomorrow but we are going to heat the garage since it is a little cold to be out there in 0* temps. Visit http://www.whitebirchresort.net/ for more pictures of our resort.