Great Balls of Snow!

[billroper]

We got about three or four inches of very heavy wet snow. Heart attack snow, basically, but if you use a pusher shovel, it's pretty manageable.

It also packs like a dream.

Julie dressed herself today, in a too-small Halloween t-shirt and biker shorts. And then she put on her pink coat, pink gloves, and pink boots and set out to make a snowman.

Our yard is now full of enormous snowballs. Some of them are over a foot in diameter. All of them are too heavy for Julie to lift.

Tomorrow, I will have to start making stacks of three...

Comments

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

PLEASE be careful! Don't take anything for granted with your heart.

(See the first verse of Secondhand Smoke (http://filk.cracksandshards.com/SecondhandSmoke.html), which is true.)

I don't mean to scare you... well, maybe I do. My Dad had a history of heart attacks. He bought a snow-thrower to spare his heart. He died of heart attack number four, staggering into the kitchen from pushing it. He was not yet 50.

(God, I'm posting a lot of medical advice the last couple of days. All from the heart.)

[billroper]

Thanks! I am being careful about it, but a reminder never hurts.

[huskiebear.livejournal.com]

We used to have a long piece of scrap wood with a half circle cut out of one end to let us roll the second ball up on top of the first. I don't think our snowmen ever had heads...

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

And then>/EM> Julie is going to insist that the snowmen are supposed to have two heads . . .

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

We got about 4" down here but the roads were not bad at all yesterday morning. Which was a good thing as it was the last day of finals week.