Re: transporting snow--a storyoctoberdreamingNovember 10 2005, 14:13:48 UTC
One year, it got decently cold down here, and it even snowed in Arkansas that year, too. My dad brought home a whole lot of snow in the back of his truck, and he made my sister a little snowman (we were both over the age of 20, btw). The snowman had twigs for arms, two pebbles for eyes, and a milk bottle top for a hat. Bethany loved the snowman so much that she put it in the big chest freezer at my parents' house, and there it stayed for over a year until finally Dad took it out and melted it. So Bethany got him a stuffed snowman for Christmas which says "Will Work For Freezer Space."
Re: transporting snow--a storyfaeredeluneNovember 10 2005, 14:22:23 UTC
That is priceless.
My Uncle used to sculpt me snow fort on the back patio and take me boot-skating on the lake. I can just imagine how foreign that would sound to you.
It isn't especially uncommon for us to have some light snow falling starting in November but normally this starts much closer to or in December. often the snow will not gain any accumulation until - oddly enough Christmas eve/day or thereabouts.
Then of course it's the getting rid of it that becomes a bugger. ;)
Re: transporting snow--a storyoctoberdreamingNovember 10 2005, 14:37:55 UTC
Wow, a snow fort. I've only read about them in books! I used to read the Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House" books and wonder what it would be like to be "snowed in" in a log cabin.
Oddly enough, it DID snow here on Christmas Eve/Day last year -- the first time in recorded history that Houston ever had a "white christmas."
This holiday season, I'll be in eastern Europe for most of mid-December. That should fulfill my "cold quota" for the year. ;)
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Oh well figuring out how to package and ship them before they melted would have been a comedy in itself. teehee
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My Uncle used to sculpt me snow fort on the back patio and take me boot-skating on the lake. I can just imagine how foreign that would sound to you.
It isn't especially uncommon for us to have some light snow falling starting in November but normally this starts much closer to or in December. often the snow will not gain any accumulation until - oddly enough Christmas eve/day or thereabouts.
Then of course it's the getting rid of it that becomes a bugger. ;)
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Oddly enough, it DID snow here on Christmas Eve/Day last year -- the first time in recorded history that Houston ever had a "white christmas."
This holiday season, I'll be in eastern Europe for most of mid-December. That should fulfill my "cold quota" for the year. ;)
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