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. ;)
Sadly I am very unfair to the fluffy stuff. I always think the falling snowflakes are gorgeous but I become very bitter about it staying and I have a Hate-Hate relationship with high wind and frost bite/chilblains.
Or on the other hand, accumulated snow can be utterly gorgeous in gardens and landscapes - so long as I can appreciate it from a sheltered, warm and cosy distance. :s
I am strange and finicky about climate/weather - extremes are the bane of my existance and I have become a human barometer. I enjoy temperate middle ground best.
Hopefully my new garden will be as pretty when shrouded in snow as the one at my last home.
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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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Bah, I enjoy snow a lot more than this gross kind of rain.
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Or on the other hand, accumulated snow can be utterly gorgeous in gardens and landscapes - so long as I can appreciate it from a sheltered, warm and cosy distance. :s
I am strange and finicky about climate/weather - extremes are the bane of my existance and I have become a human barometer. I enjoy temperate middle ground best.
Hopefully my new garden will be as pretty when shrouded in snow as the one at my last home.
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:D :D :D
..*runs to put on coat and dance around under the sparse 'flurries'*
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