Life at SoftAcres 04/25/19 - Mold and Regeneration

I walked back out to my property only a week later than the photos in the last post. The snow was almost gone everywhere, except on the little woods road (Cook Road) that directly leads to my property--there was still over a foot of snow! I think the last snow to melt in town will be my road...

Staples Road

Cook Road

(Should call it "Last Snow Road")

To avoid walking through the snow I just went up through the woods along the edge.

Somehow all that snow melted in only two weeks.

My typical overhead view.

So, all the water from a 6 foot snowpack had to go somewhere. Most of it melted and slowly ran down the hills around the yard. Quite a bit was sublimated (evaporated directly from the snow), and the rest was reduced by several rain showers. Unfortunately, during this steady melt the floor of the shelter and then the tent were soaked to the point of saturation. And they still are. We see the most unfortunate result in the next shot...

Mould on the floor.

The last of the drifted snow on my yard proper. If you draw a rough line from the snow to the white

barrel in the background you will see the path of greatest snow drifting.

The snow in this picture was originally up in the field beyond!

Much of my temporary trellacing came down--which was expected. I'm looking forward to redoing and updating much around the yard. The maple arches (all the places where I'd intertwined young maple and other trees) were all strongly budding. I think they will be quite lush this summer.

I've been at my neighbor's cabin for a couple weeks but am about to head back out to the land to live again. As I mentioned in the last post, I am looking to get a vehicle of some kind as I am unable to rely on walking downtown anymore. I'm hoping that the past winter is the last and biggest environmental struggle I'll have to face. I want to be in a house, on this land, when the leaves fall next year.