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A Day in January
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The year is 2026 and it's been a long winter so far here in Upstate New York. Ice, snow, the usual.
With still two months to go until springtime I had to remove some snow from the sides of the greenhouse. The snow had piled up to such a level that it would have been impossible for any snow coming off the dome to go anywhere so it had to be done. I started by lowering the long snowbanks by several feet. After that I started to clear the snow down to ground level. I was able to do 4 feet a day which took me about 3 hours each day.
Here is a picture. As seen in the picture, I use two shovels. The snow shovel is for the loose stuff at the top and the dirt shovel is to break the ice, literally. This is not snow you see there, it's mostly ice.
This is the right side, it is almost done in the picture. It's nice to have the daily exercise. As I get a bit older, the trick is to keep moving in order to stay in shape.
While I've been removing snow, Mark made another sculpture so that drivers of vehicles passing through will have something to look at.
It's amazing how many people look forward to the sculptures. Interestingly it's rare to see a sculpture around here even though there are piles of snow all over the place.
The pictures were taken at sunset last night. The sculpture will be around for a while because there is no warmup in the 10-day forecast. Every day and every night will be below the freezing point. By the way, we have gained 28.8 minutes of daylight so far. It's starting to count.
