Because Snow is on Your Mind

The mere mention of rain in California, possibly turning into a bit of snow fall, reminds me of a post that has been written in my mind but not yet put in print.  Until now.

If you ever find yourself in a beautiful spot with the perfect snow this information will be useful to you.

I think I may have been deprived as a child.  I was never exposed to Twinkies, Cap'n Crunch Cereal, I thought it was an ostrich who went yodeling and I never, ever, was taught how to build a snowman.

Everyone must learn how to build a proper snowman or snow-woman, as the case may be.

 

We found ourselves in Central Park unable to ice-skate because of the hundreds of people standing in line.

Literally, hundreds of people.

We did the next best thing: throw snow at each and other surrounding people.

After a bit of messing around we got down to work.

I was stoked to build a snowman.  I sort of started packing snow around in a semi-round shape. 

 Not really having a vision of how the bottom of my snowman was going to magically turn into a ball, you know, like a round body with a round head, I looked around to see what other people were doing.

  Did people use tools to make the round shape?

Um, no.  David is just pushing a ball of snow around.

The snow was the perfect consistency.  Not too fluffy.  Not too icy.  It was perfect.

After seeing David I immediately stopped with my shenanigans.

I just stomped on the weird shape I had made.

Instead, I took pictures and threw snow at people.

Alec knew exactly what to do.

You start with a little snowball and the more you roll it around the bigger it gets.

Preferably roll it down a hill. 

Then, when the ball is super heavy and extremely large, you enlist other, much stronger people, to help you. 

A snowman must be graduated in size. 

The larger snowball on the bottom. 

A medium for the middle and a smaller-sized snowball for the head.

This is one of the heads.

After some packing and possibly repairing, you get two beautiful looking snow people. 

If you find yourself intimidated at all by the snow, you can just stand around watching other people play in the snow.  Eventually the people who learn how to build snowmen have to leave them.  Leave them in the park where they found them.  Leave them for the lazy bystanders to line up to have their picture taken with your snowman.  Possibly claiming it as their own.

It's okay. 

 I didn't throw snow at those people as we left.  We know the truth.

And now the seven people I was with that day know the truth too.

It was my first real snowman and snow woman building experience.

Happy Snow Day to you.