Showing posts with label cold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cold. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Snowy, Snowy Day...
We headed up to Tennessee this weekend - another one of those whirlwind trips, made even more so by the fact that we squeezed in visits with not only my parents, but my in-laws in Knoxville as well.
Although we've been heading up to Tennessee a lot lately, we're still enjoying our time visiting there. Particularly this trip, which had an added extra bonus - SNOW!
Schecky has only ever seen "real" snow one other time - interestingly enough also at my parent's house - but he was too small really remember it. We saw fake snow in December, of last year, which was fun, but not exactly the same thing. It was wonderful to get to see him enjoy himself.
And - for all my whining about how I hate being cold, I had forgotten just how much fun snow can be....
Here are some of the highlights...
We'd been driving in the snow for over an hour, so Schecky was ready for us to get to our destination. Immediately upon pulling into the driveway of my parent's house, he flew out the door to play in the snow. Only to discover that snow is much colder than he thought! After a few minutes, he was ready to go inside - get warmed up, bundled up, and then try for another round...
Once dressed more appropriately, it did not take Scheck long to discover the joy of the snowball. I have an incredible number of pictures very similar to this - with him getting ready to pelt me. You can see more of these pictures at Flickr...
And there are some more random snowy pictures there as well...
Sheck also made snow angels. He gravely announced to me that it was better to make them lying on your back, because when you lay on your stomach, you got snow up your nose. This was wisdom he attained the hard way...
And did I mention the "creature making?" He created a whole slew of these little snow creatures all over the back patio. It was very reminiscent of Calvin and Hobbes, and the whole "Snowman Hall of Horrors*" that Calvin would construct.
Sadly, it was getting dark by that time, so the only picture I have that even halfway turned out was this picture of this lone little guy...It's difficult to tell, but he has no limbs, yet he does have a long twig tail.
Here, for no other reason than it makes me smile, is a picture of the house in which I grew up. This was taken the next morning, when the snow was done, and the sky was simply beautiful...
We're home now - and the weather guy is promising me temps in the sixties before the end of the week. Bring it on. I'm ready. I got to play in the snow, now I'm ready for the sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
*This is kind of cool - just type "snowman" into the query box, and it'll find a whole bunch of the gruesome snowmen strips for you!
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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