Day 24 - A Solution to the Problem

That persistent rock had to be blasted.

And so blasted it was!

Day 20 - A Pebble In My Shoe

About a million years ago, the world's temperature dropped and the polar ice caps thickened. Millions of tons of ice built up on the original ice pack, and the weight of this build-up pushed the edges of the ice pack outward, towards the equator.

An enormous blanket of ice moved slowly southward over what is now New England, plowing up the soil and absorbing rock and dirt into itself by a slow-motion churning.

Huge boulders (known as glacial eccentrics) were picked up and carried by the advancing ice and dropped helter skelter as three or four glaciers advanced and retreated.

When that last glacier (the Laurentide Glacier) came and went between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, it left a pile of boulders in what is now our yard, more specifically, our garage.

Most we've been able to move.

This one will require a little more persuasion.

Breaking Ground

We closed on our house on August 6, nine days earlier than we expected.

After packing, cleaning, purging, moving from a four-bedroom, three-bathroom house into a two-bedroom, one-bathroom, no-dishwasher-or-microwave apartment, Frank and I both needed a break.

We took off for Nova Scotia for six days and forgot about everything under the sun.

But now we're back.

It's showtime!

Day 0 - A Picnic and a Prayer

We closed early afternoon and then headed off to look at the land one last time before the Devirginization began.

Grinders, Chardonnay, and a deep breath!