Labyrinth Thaw #3

After a full night of rain, temps in the 40's, the 16" of snow dwindled down, but didn't disappear. As you can see, the paths show the grass and lots of wet snow to shovel around the lunation "Berm"

The paths are grassy, slushy and the Labrices are still with us. I made a video which can be viewed to the right.

The fourth quadrant after the rain. Let's hope for a freeze, to turn the Labrices, Labyrs, Rosette and Lunation "Berm" into ice.

Shoveling out the Labyrinth

This is what 16" of wonderful snow looks like with a little containment shoveling. Taken yesterday, February 25th.

After snowshoeing the Lunation "Berm" and the Labyrs, Rosette and some of the Labrices.

A view from the porch of the snow laden Labyrinth.

New SNOW revitalizes Labyrinth

Ask and you shall receive...Keep on asking and it will be given to you... Well for weeks and months I've been asking for snow and lots of it and good quality snow. Well, last night it started to snow and kept on snowing and kept on snowing and snowed all night and all day. By morning there was at least 10 inches and by the days end probably a good foot to 14 inches. The wonderful, wet, snow fort packing kind of snow. Although it was quite heavy as I first had to snow shoe the Labrices, Lunation Berm and Rosette ring. Then it was shoveling, so much snow. Wet,heavy wonderful snow.When you picked it up it packed and when I picked it up with the shovel it packed. 5 hours of shoveling today and I still could have done more work if I didn't run out of steam and daylight. We're expecting a bigger storm Friday...Yeah!!!

The Almost Labyrinth

It's been a few weeks since my last post. While other parts of the East have been getting slammed with blizzards and heavy snow, we here in Vermont have gotten a few inches at a time and temperatures in the upper 30's. In the past few weeks we've had maybe 4- 6 inches total snow. Not enough for much Labyrinth work. Today, it's in the high 30's and I packed some snow and snowshoed down the Labrices and the Lunation Berm. The Labyrinth is looking a bit shoddy, but I still have a Labyrinth and that's a blessing.

Labyrinth Gradual Re-Build

February 1st brought a few inches of light powder. As you can see the Labrices are only an inch or so in height. The Lunation "Berm" lost almost a foot in height. I am very fortunate to have the Labryinth snow project still in my life. If two weeks ago would have brought one more day of rain and warm temperatures...there would be no snow Labyrinth. It is as it is supposed to be.

Labyrinth Ressurected

January 26th we received 4-6 inches of fresh snow. Yeah!!!
Fortunately the Labyrs were intact and much of the Labrices were also there as a guide for me to shovel out the paths and begin to pile up the Labrices once again. The biggest challenge was starting anew in building up the Labrices. The new strategy is to shovel out the path and build up the Labrices and then walk on them with snow shoes to stomp them down. We make plans and then God changes them. We adapt and move on. The Labyrinth continues to teach me to accept what is each day and know it will change.

Labyrinth Flood Pictures

These pictures were taken in the early morning of the thaw/flood. Using the two shovels I stomped down what was left of the Labrices in an attempt to pack them and get them to freeze that night. The close up picture shows the snow disappearing and the wide view was taken in the morning before I spent 4 hours saving the Labyrinth. By the end of the day not much was left and the camera was history...the good news...my efforts paid off and that night it did stop raining and the next day we got a little snow...more to come

Labyrinth Update

Well I did fry the camera. I had to drive 90 minutes to Burlington to get a new camera. I went to Best Buy, then to Costco and back to Best Buy, who had the best selections and prices. Yes, I could have ordered one online...then I would have had to wait for it to arrive. I got the camera home, charged the battery and went to take some pictures only to find the cameras' message...Internal memory full...What! after only 3 pictures the memory was full. It was then I realized the camera needed a memory stick. It would have been helpful if the salesman would have told me this. I was not about to drive back to Burlington. This I ordered online. One good thing did come out of the experience. I realized my "fried" camera had a memory stick and I had taken a few pictures on the fateful "labyrinth thaw day" All I had to do was find a way to get the images off the memory stick. While doing some banking, I mentioned my plight to the customer service reps and Roy said, I have a doodag thing-a-ma-jig which reads different memory sticks. I'll bring it in and you can borrow it. Now that's customer service. I ended up coming back to town later that afternoon and brought the stick to Roy. That night he emailed me 6 pictures of the Labyrinth Flood/Thaw.