And Then There was None!

The snow cave is gone.  It melted much faster than we thought it would.  I honestly though we would have a mound of ice/snow until May, but once it started to melt it went quickly.

As you may recall from the last blog post, about a foot of snow fell on March 11.  The snow fort was doing great and a week later it started to melt.  I wasn't fast enough to document the "swiss cheese" affect of the second room before it collapsed, but it started melting and getting holes.

These picture were around March 22

I took these pictures the day after the second room collapsed.

This pictures shows some of the swiss cheese affect on the first room of the cave.

Closer view of the holes.

 A few days later Joseph went out with a shovel and knocked part of the roof in on this room to help speed up the process.

The next day this happened...

The roof collapsed.

Second room melted almost to the ground.

 A few days later...

End of march...

The rectangle with the black frame is an old shower door that Joseph used in making a
slide for the kids.  We just left it out to show how it moved during the melting.

April 2nd or so...

Second room is all gone.

 This last picture was taken April 10th.   That night we had some rain and the next 

day the snow and ice were all gone.

The snow cave was fun while it was around, but we were ready for it to melt too.  We wanted to make sure we could have grass growing for the summer.