Finally, finally, SNOW!

[melannen]

siegeofangels was right - it really does look like a Frosted Mini-Wheat out there.

I chose to count on the snow, and didn't properly prepare a Sunday school lesson for today. For once (unlike all the times I tried it with homework), it worked! We got a lovely more-than-six-inches of perfectly packable snow last night and this morning. I even resisted the temptation to spend the whole day by the fire reloading my flist and watching LOTR movies, and did the responsible thing instead: spent half the afternoon playing outside. And, of course, I brought my camera.

The view from my bedroom window this morning:

(Actually, the sun is in the north-west in that picture, so it's more 'the view when I got up today'. q-:)

Looking straight up in the front yard:


The snow I shoveled off the driveway, hereby nicknamed "Mt. Crumpit":

(It took that shape all by itself!)

The design I made by stomping in the front yard:

(Not terribly easy to make out, but it's meant to be viewed from above)

Mom actually working (as opposed to taking pictures) + Mt. Crumpit at its fullest extent


Knocking snow off an overladen branch:


More fallen limbs:


This is a piece of nylon rope that I hung the hammock chair from this summer, and never took down:

(I just think it's amazingly nifty, from an engineering perspective. It was swinging rapidly in the wind, too, and not losing any snow.)

Looking down:

(to match all the beach-feet pictures from this summer)

And, of course, can't have snow without building a triple-segmented snow organism:


And said snow organism must have a fleeing populace at its feet:

(Else how could he spread his chelicerae, or cherish his pride?)

Close-ups of the terrified villagers:



And one last shot of the whole horrid scene:

(I doubt it will last very well, but hey, I got pictures, and maybe it'll cheer up somebody's commute tomorrow, at least.)

Then I came in, changed out of my wet clothes, and made myself a nice warm cup of hot cocoa. And dropped in a broken candy cane. But forgot to get the plastic wrapper off first.

Oh, oh, good news! The set of car keys and zapper that mom lost about a month after she bought the car and then blamed on the kids? She found them in the pocket of her old winter coat. It is no longer my fault!

Comments

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

This is even more amusing than the snow octopus somebody made one winter at UMD. You rock :-D

[melannen.livejournal.com]

I don't know - the snow octopus was pretty amazing. It's just it takes a certain type and quantity of snow in order to manage the classic triple-segmented form, and it was perfect today, so I didn't want to miss the chance!

When the snow's not right, you've got to make do. One year I created a snow-tatzelwum (http://www.occultopedia.com/t/tatzelwurm1.htm) winding all the way along the top of the snow-berm the plows threw up, because it was the only place that was suitable to build. (unfortunately, and typically for a tatzelwurm, it seems to have eluded the camera.)

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

Won't somebody *please* think of the snow-villagers? Poor little things. XD

Also, depending on the heat of the cocoa, that can add a certain amount of Vitamin Melted-plastic to your diet.

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

Good! I was gonna say I'd better see pictures of some interesting snow-things. :D

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Oh, and what interesting snow-things did *you* make? q-:

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

None, for I am lowly and uncreative. d-: I did however remark upon its most fine texture!

[enemy-anime.livejournal.com]

Love the icon ^_~

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Wow, really?

[(Anonymous)]

Also, I *may* have sent this page to my aunt, who used to do sand/snow sculptures. :)

-Leo (on another computer; didn't bother logging in.)

[melannen.livejournal.com]

This isn't sculpture! The octopus was sculpture. This was schlepping stuff together in the cold.