It has been rather quiet around Lake Metigoshe recently. But I have been able to enjoy ice music occasionally. As some of you know, once a body of water has frozen over and temperatures drop, the big ice making machine can produce some interesting music. These concerts occur mostly during the evening hours when temperatures drop considerably. They can also occur during the morning hours when the sun comes up and temperatures quickly rise. Ice, like other solids, contracts when it gets colder. As it gets colder, and begins to contract, tension can increase within the ice sheet. If the body of water is completely frozen over and frozen to the shoreline, that contractive tension can build to the point where the sheet of ice cracks apart. That releases the tension and sends soundwaves reverberating through the air above as well as the water below. Some people just call it the sound of ice cracking. Others call it ice music, or perhaps the ice symphony. Whatever the terminology, it is an