SNOW Many Years I Was That Sick?

In my trembling chills and alternating sweats, coughing so hard and for so long that it felt that my diaphragm was bruised; I came to grips with how easily I might die, how important getting a new breath in truly is!  I may not express it enough, but I'm no friend of needles and even I contemplated a flu vaccine. Shot in the dark that vaccines are, in fever induced psychosis and afterward, ever going back to being the writhing, shaking and trembling puddle of flesh I was, turned me to into a potential customer.

How sick is that? Right? Tony Appleseed? Ready to take up willful association with the corporadoes? Believe me, I have wondered too. Sadly, even in my flu wracked state, I knew that sequestering yourself for even a week, to protect the health of others, is a small price to pay every half-dozen years or so, to try to keep others from having to go through it. Perhaps Creator's intent was to have that disease act as a clean-up crew on superfluous elders. I'm not in the mood to judge. I have a fly hangover and expect to not feel my best for at least another week. I'm no longer contagious and yet, can't muster the strength to get up and go. It has taken two sittings at my desk to capture just these two paragraphs.

I could not imagine going out in public during a sickness like that, I would have been the Vesuvius of viral infection! In fact, I still want to blame the guy who coughed pretty much right on my last bite of lunch. I had brought two apples and a few granola bars for getting through the day and a poorly timed and directed cough cost me a week of work. When taking this sort of penalty from life, one knows that sharing is not, in this case, caring. Here's a little diversion I planned to execute before I got sick.

I thought it would be fun to present a sort of scramble. I took the following photos through this last winter. As I shoveled, I would make a letter in the snow each successive snowfall. Can you determine what the real order was that I took the pictures?

I will present the first person to e-mail me the correct answer, with approximately a kilo of char, enough to enrich a typical 4X10 foot garden bed. Send your guess to: tnsaladino42@hotmail.com your e-mail will not be sold.