White Stuff, 20 February 2013

At this very moment, my kitchen counters are piled with dirty dishes and one of my rabbits has a clump of dried poo stuck to her furry behind.  But as disturbing as one or both of those items may be, I'm not going to do anything about it tonight because I'm tired from...

...a snow day with the kiddos today!

G has this week off of school (they combined presidents' birthdays or something), so I've been watching the mountain weather.  It snowed at a lower elevation than usual yesterday, so the three of us took off this morning to play.

A comment to my friends who live where it snows all winter long:  I know you don't like it.  I hear the complaints and I'm sorry for your pain.  But I will not apologize for personally feeling that snow is a ridiculous amount of fun!  :-)

This morning, I packed the back of our 4WD car with sandwiches, hot chocolate, and baby carrots for sustenance, along with the compulsory snow pants, boots, mittens, coats, hats, scarves, sleds, a towel, and the kitchen sink.  Oh, and a roll of toilet paper--just in case.  (In retrospect, I probably shoulda left the t.p. with the rabbits.)

The drive through the hills was gorgeous.  I'd never seen snow at that elevation before, and I just kept praising God aloud for the beauty of white fields and powder-capped fence posts.  Today I had a first: I saw cows standing in the snow.  In real life.  Not in Stone Fox or Farmer Boy.

The weather was gorgeous, too.  It was cold, but not bitterly so; the sun sparkled the snow.  A slight breeze blew flakes of snow off the trees, giving the feeling that it was snowing on us!  Magical.

We walked and floundered and sledded and threw snowballs.  And took pictures.

Z and I built a rather lumpy snowman.  (Snowperson?)  The snow was the perfect consistency for rolling snowballs, which I had lots of fun with.  Cartoons always show this ball rolling down a hill getting bigger and bigger--"the snowball effect," right?--but I haven't often been in snow that actually behaved that way.

G and I built what we generously called a "snow fort": basically a short wall to crouch behind while lobbing snowballs at one's mommy.  Yes, I helped build defenses for my enemies.

A fun day, but as I said, tiring.  Better get my beauty sleep so that I can deal with the not-so-lovely chores of tomorrow!