On
Christmas Day we woke up to almost a foot of fresh snow on the ground. After opening presents and stuffing ourselves
on turkey, some of our family adjourned to the yard for snowman construction.
The
snow was a little dry and it wouldn’t roll.
The
kids took it as a challenge and resorted to stomping the snow down in storage
tubs.
They
stacked the big hunks up with plenty of decisions on design and engineering.
They
went so far as to take some of the snow inside to warm it up enough to use as
mortar between the blocks. Complaints
from inside followed.
The
snowman grew in size and personality.
Finished
product!
This
morning we got up to discover even MORE snow.
Beavis was soon putting our new snow thrower to good use to dig out our
driveway. I’ve drawn a red line around
the snow on top of my car so you can see how much had fallen.
When
the guy with the snow plow came by to clear the street we welcomed him with
mixed feelings.
Note
the big wall of snow he is leaving across our parking area.
Still,
the snow blower took on the drift and sent it high into the air. When Beavis was through there, he went across
the street and plowed out our new neighbors.
They are from Taiwan and haven’t had time to tool up for Idaho weather
yet.
Just for fun here is a little animation of what it's like to be inside when Beavis goes by the window with the snow blower.
