Day 6--Let's Save the Igloo!

What does it take? TEAMWORK! John sprayed down the shell every 10 minutes for an hour last night while it was still frigid, until the hose froze up. Then he was up and out before dawn for the funeral of his high school buddy, Jimmy Koller, in Lafayette Hill. Sam and Nina came to the rescue to help swaddle the frozen shell in tarps to wait out the sunshine and balmy temperatures. Everyone has the day off to attend to other matters. Surely Phil's forecast can't be wrong.

Day 5--Mother Nature Says Wait!

Too bad! Courtney Confer showed ready to work and Anne Williams brought in coffee and hot chocolate but all to no avail. John received an email message this afternoon from Steve Wistar who works at AccuWeather that this weekend is supposed to be unseasonably mild. The temperatures are expected to hover around 40--and bring rain. Our planned Friday night big push was quickly called off. We are closing in the top now and the bricks are leaning in at quite an extreme angle. The weather will have to be cold to set them properly and remain cold so that the they all freeze together. Sorry about the delay, but we learned in 2003 that this project can't be rushed. Time to do all those things that you haven't been getting to since the igloo launched and we will meet again on the other side of this warm spell. Pray for snow.

Day 4--Closing in!

Photos of our mini session of course #11 going up Sam, John and I worked for a couple of hours and punched out 27 bricks and completed the 11th course of igloo 2015. Working to a playlist of 18 igloo centric tunes, we worked for about two and a half hours on a bright sunny day that got increasingly colder. Neighbor Michele Ebaugh stopped by with Levi and Owen and Kathy Staab and April checked in but it got too cold to work. The hose froze. Quittin' time!

Shaping up

Bright and cold this morning. Hope to get the dome completed but not many able to come today. We'll see how it goes!

Day 3--Continuation

Photos of Day 3 construction right here. A late start but we still managed to put on another 3 courses, 2 courtesy of Jake's Superior Brick Co, and one course of Kate Delano's hand punched, artisan bricks (you go, girl!) that were great contenders. The warm weather made the snow perfect to work with and we didn't need to add any water. A good time was had by all, except maybe Reggie, who had to be tied up.

Delay Today!

Today, for the first time, we hate the February sun. Sam arrived early to rig up a sail for protection. Construction postponed to 4:30, closer to sundown. Sorry for any inconvenience!

Day 3--Seven Courses and Growing

HUGE PROGRESS! Put captions in all the photos so just check us out. Work time tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb 4, is scheduled from 2 to 7, in spite of the dread 37 degree forecast. Come if you can! This is moving along very quickly. (DANK-GA!) See all the Day 3 photos