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Icicle Watch – Mother Nature’s Revenge

Mary W March 2, 2010 2 Comments

What’s that they say about the best laid plans? Yeah, um, well, just as we get coordinated enough to have an Icicle Watch Contest to see when our massive courtyard icicles will fall, Mother Nature gets all uncooperative on us and decides to melt the icicles instead. After EVERY OTHER icicle crashes to the ground. Could we have a word, Mother Nature?

No one submitted any guesses for our contest, so we’ll let this one slide, but if we have a nature-based contest again, we’ll certainly keep an untrusting eye on the good Mother.

Here are pics from this past Sunday and today of GINORMOUS and RIVAL and their sad demise.

GINORMOUS icicle, northeast corner of courtyard, looking not so ginormous, February 28, 2010.
GINORMOUS icicle, northeast corner of courtyard, looking not so ginormous, February 28, 2010.
RIVAL icicle, northwest corner of courtyard. RIVAL is bigger than GINORMOUS here. February 28, 2010.
RIVAL icicle, northwest corner of courtyard. RIVAL is bigger than GINORMOUS here. February 28, 2010.
The remnants of GINORMOUS, March 2, 2010.
The remnants of GINORMOUS, March 2, 2010.
Weak little RIVAL, March 2, 2010.
Weak little RIVAL, March 2, 2010.

2 Replies to “Icicle Watch – Mother Nature’s Revenge”

  1. Well, see? That’s cuz “When will they MELT?” wasn’t a choice. I just knew they’d melt a lot on March 2nd and become “TINY” and “ITTY-BITTY” :^)
    Honest!

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  2. LOL! That’ll learn us to give Mother Nature lots of options if we’re going to involve her in a contest!

    Today TINY and ITTY-BITTY are RUNNING STREAM and DRIPPY. 🙂

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