What a difference a month makes! Bob and his friends Dave and Jim took their snow shoes for a hike in the woods. Two feet of snow, about 0 degrees Fahrenheit and almost sunny at 9am. They parked at the 'Grassy Lane' and snow-shoed up the (un-plowed) road. Dave and Jim wandered around outside while Bob went in the house.
The house looks fine, there's snow and ice on the dining room roof, some water marks on the walls inside by the door. Bob says the oil tank is at an 1/8.
Bob, Dave, and Jim snow-shoed all around the property, starting out by the spring and going up to the power/telephone right of way and then following the boundary line to the road, then went by the (what we call) the hunters' cabin and down all the way to the big falls. Then back to the house. There were LOTS of deer tracks and some other smaller tracks, no other human evidence.
Here are some pictures.
Looking up the brook from the bridge.
Bob noticed marks on the table from water dripping through the chandelier. He lowered the leaf and put a pan on the floor to catch future drips.
These are the 'grassy lane' falls! The ice is in front of the falling water. Bob and friends are on our side of the brook looking upstream.
The snowshoes kept them from sinking too far into the snow. Only 2-3 inches instead of 24! More snow and ice and rain expected this evening and tomorrow.
