The clock has not stopped yet.  We are going to call it a day, and will continue our vigil first thing tomorrow morning.  We were at the setup site at 6 p.m. (Monday) and took the following pictures.  It looks as if the pallet should have sunk by now, but we think there is enough ice to just balance it where the pole with the flag are resting.  We've had a few calls from people who are trying to understand why it hasn't slipped below the surface yet - all we can tell you is that it'll happen all in good time.  Everything is working fine, and we have seen this kind of thing happen a few times in years past, although I don't recall ever seeing the whole pond quite this uniformly covered with slushy ice particles.  There are usually fingers of open water here and there by the time the ice gets to this stage.  It may have to do with there not being quite so much ice thickness this year - the thickest we had reported to us was about 24 inches.  Then after a bit of a thaw we got a foot of new snow on top of everything.  Strange winter.  We'll keep you posted as to when the clock stops and spring officially arrives at Joe's Pond.