I mentioned snow earlier. Have some evidence.
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This is what the snow looks like from my bedroom window. Well, one of them. It doesn't help that my desk faces the window and I keep staring out the window and watching the snow when I should be working.
So at some point this afternoon Renu and I decided to build something outside. Ours is at the very end, but see some of the other creations that we passed on the way.
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To give you an idea of how deep the snow was, this is my foot in the snow. It's getting dark now, but it's still going a little out there.
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I feel sorry for this snowman, the first we saw. Wasn't last month Love Your Body month? That applies to non-humans too!
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Yes, a snowman on top of a snowman. "Fractal snowman!" I exclaimed as I tried to add a third snowman to the sequence. It didn't work. This one was actually the last we saw.
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Obligatory picture of the gazebo.
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Yes, a snow-woman. And yes, those are bottles of alcohol at her feet. I'm impressed at how the creator(s) managed to clothe her.
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My pine needle whiskers. Let me show you them.
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A cute and simple snowman. This one brings back childhood memories, like the time my brother and neighbors and I made a huge snowman when we were kids and it stayed up for months until one of my neighbors decapitated it with a baseball bat.
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I have no idea what this one's bowing at, but it's pretty fierce. The sunglasses and pine needles add that touch to it.
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It's not a snowman, it's a swan! And a good one at that. I'm impressed that they got the neck to stay up.
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My humongous arms, let me show you them.
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I'm pretty sure I know where they got that phone from. But it's another snow-woman!
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It's Super Snowman! I wonder why he's mad, though.
And finally...
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This is our snow-woman. Renu and I started with the idea of making a snow bunny, then a snow devil, which evolved into this. Everything except the sticks, flowers, and pine needle (mouth) came from our room. Her materials:
*candy cane horns or ears or something
*flowers for her hair
*lollipop eyes
*bouncy ball nose
*pine needle mouth
*stick arms
*Black Cat/Mardi Gras beads
*bra (and yes, I hand-crafted those boobs!)
*flowers at her feet (we tried to put them in other places, but that didn't go over too well)
Fun fact: Dean Diedrick passed us as we were finishing her up and took a picture of the three of us. Possible immortalization?