The great melt

I have shared with you many photos of our gigantic snow pile in the front yard. Finally the time has come to say: it is melting!

Pretty slowly however. Instead of being in the middle of the branches of the crabapple tree, it is now at the bottom of the branches. Woo. Eee.

On Tuesday the thermometer hit 10 degrees. We put on the rain gear and headed out in search of puddles. We were not disappointed. In fact, we found the east coast, complete with ice bergs, right on our street:


And then I put the kids to work. They seemed to enjoy themselves.