While we only received a few inches of snow, it was cold enough to make an icy crust which made for very fast sledding down the hill and into the lower field. We invited a bunch of families from St Patrick’s over and those kids just never go tired! Patty made cookies and we also had a warm fire burning inside for the Moms and babies while the Dads trudged up and down that hill all afternoon and evening. A wonder day.

A nor’easter blew through and dumped a bunch of rain quickly, overwhelming the big pond’s overflow and causing the stream to rise over driveway and pretty severely erode over the 30″ culvert pipe. If this had been snow I’m sure it would have been over 2 feet.

Here is what it looked like when I left for my Tuesday evening Knights of Columbus meeting.

When I got back two hours later it had topped the road and was hard at work eroding the gravel. I hesitated, but ended up driving my RAM 3500 through it, very large bump felt as the tires dipped into the erosion. Her is what it looked like.

The next day if got the tractor out and smoothed it all out, need to get a pile of gravel to have on hand in a situation like this.