First the surface would be cleaned of snow with scrapers, the depth of the ice tested for suitability, then the surface would be marked out with cutters to produce the lines of the future ice blocks.
My own concern is that we have already experienced the last picturesque, manageable Winter Games -- the 1994 Games in Norway, with bright sun, frigid air, quaint buildings, rolling farmland under a clean coat of snow, idealistic Norwegians burning candles on the sidewalk for the sister Olympic city of Sarajevo.
"Look," he said, pointing at a patch of dirt that had been scratched clean of leaves and snow.
Clear feeders of snow regularly.
And while there is no specific data related to the blizzard at the end of 2010, Doug Turetsky, a spokesman for the Independent Budget Office, noted that in the 2011 fiscal year, sanitation workers earned $62.4 million in overtime pay to clean up 61 inches of snow for the entire year.
Find a nice big patch of clean snow.
The Eagles said 615 workers spent 47 hours preparing the stadium and shoveling it clean, removing 2.63 million pounds of snow in 1,300 truckloads.
Eat the petals, buds, or flowers directly from the field, or in a salad (the flowers have a clean, mild taste somewhat reminiscent of snow peas), or cooked into a soup or stew.
This can be relict stratification developed by the alternation of dense and light or of clean and dirty snow accumulations from higher on the glacier.
In its day-to-day descriptions of snow shoveled, closets cleaned, books read, radishes planted and spinach harvested, it communicated the solidity of a life well lived.
