The Glaciers Are Back.

4-15-08 VERMONT: I came up yesterday to revisit glacierland. The day was sunny, but with a cool wind. While the pasture is mostly snow free, the house is besieged by glaciers. The pond has melted around the edges, but refreezes at night. Water from snow melt is pouring into and out of the pond and running across the pasture. When the breeze kicks up around the house it is cold from all the snow—like a walk-in refrigerator. The same breeze out in the snow-free pasture is warmer.

Snowdrops have bloomed in a southern spot next to the house, but the rest of the gardens are buried. It will be interesting to see how the perennials play catch up. The early flowers will be late and will bloom at the same time as others that are usually later in the season. With all this snow, we may get daffodils, peonies and asters all at the same time.

Chloe and Sam chased a squirrel around the garage this afternoon. He was in the rafters, but later came down, and the dogs lost the race across the driveway to the nearest tree. We also saw a couple deer in the pasture on our after-dinner walk.

I hauled away some of the broken branches that were not frozen in snow and took up most of the driveway reflectors that aren’t still buried. I can do some fence rail replacement and straighten some fence posts, and a couple trees are down on the pasture wire fence. They can be chain-sawed. Then more clean up if any snow melts.

New blooms: snowdrops.



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