Sisyphus at Play

As November came to a close there were some great weekends of quiet work and much progress was made towards completion of the second wave crest.












A light snow in early December made getting up and down off the stones a bit tricky but it was pretty and very peaceful along the water and eventually the cold seems to go away. But things are looking pretty good . I figure two more good weekends of work and I'll have the second wavecrest done...

But nature has other plans. A screaming freight train of wind comes barrelling out of the north with sustained winds of 50 mph. Three days of this just piles the surf up and it crushes the beach. I didn't want to go down that weekend for fear of what I'd see. It wasn't likely to be good, and with the end so close. But so it goes. The beach was wiped clean and all that was left was a carpet of pebbles. What logs and debris weren't washed away completely were pushed even farther back from the shore. The storm surge overran the stone wave by 10 feet pushing some logs behind it and sucking out huge chunks of the beach. Inluding a 6 foot stone tower that I had built to store stone and the last 10 feet of the Stonewave. The surf undermined about a 12 foot section and doomed the project. And so once again I'm are at the bottom of the hill faced with a boulder and opportunities. We'll just go from there.