Snow Days

Here in Southern Illinois, we had a very significant snow fall for our area. In my town, they are saying we received around ten inches of the white stuff. On one part it's a bit of a pain. It took me thirty minutes to uncover my car yesterday. Not to mention the forty minutes I had to spend shoveling snow off the steps, drive, back porch, etc. Our roads were not to bad to drive on, which was a surprise. Still they weren't just a cake walk.

I really don't know how you folks that get FEET of snow deal with it. I mean I've talked with some people that get lake effect snow. They tell me that there are times they have to remove the snow from their roof to keep it from caving in. That is just not right.

While snow can be a pain, it also has the ability to bring along with it some really fun times. We stopped by a good friend of ours house yesterday. The kids had made a snow man and were in the process of taking a square container, packing it with snow, and making snow bricks. They had constructed a twelve foot long, four foot tall wall! It was the coolest thing! I was literally thrown back thirty years in time to when I used to make snow forts.

So, when you were a kid (or if you're still one now), what was your favorite thing to do in the snow?

I would love to hear from you. Feel free to leave a comment below.


-Red
PS: I did have a really fun snowball fight with my wife when we got home last night. I won by rushing her and pulling her down into the snow. (smiles in a maniacal grin)

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