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Worst snowman ever? Possibly. The day after it snowed Matt rolled the trampled down, melting snow into a dirty, leafy, lumpy snowman. With walnut eyes and nose, Christmas tree branch arms, a leaf for a mouth and bicycle helmet. So ugly. So funny.
The kids delayed destroying him long enough for me to get a picture. Then they ripped his arms out and stabbed him with them. They kicked, punched and stomped him into a mound of dirty, leafy, melty snow. Then came inside and watched “Frosty the Snowman.” Kids rule.
Note Matt kicking his head off in the picture below.
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From Snowman. Shot December 9, 2012
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Been a relatively mild winter for Germany (so far). We had approximately two days of snow and now are back to lower to mid-40s temps. That’s how winter should be, right?
It snowed on a Friday; the kids were up at 6:30 the next morning to play in it. I made them wait until after 8 to go out for their scheduled snowball fight. I didn’t participate (this time) and snapped a few photos instead. Too early to get all dressed weather appropriate. And I probably enjoy throwing snowballs at them a little too much. (Try it. It’s fun. More fun if you put a rock in the middle. Just kidding!)
Jacob has also not taken off the snow boots since. The other day he wore too small, tight red fleece pants (tucked into the boots) and a camouflage hooded sweatshirt with a gray zip-up jacket over it. It was quite an outfit. But who am I to stifle his creativity…or, worse, have to pick out his clothes.
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From Snow Day. Shot December 8, 2012
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First snow of the season: Jan 30. Jacob was so excited to wake to snow. He was screaming and laughing throwing snowballs at Matt while he scraped the car and salted the driveway. He woke Nicholas and probably the rest of the neighborhood. Nicholas kept asking where the presents were. He thought since it was snowing, it was Christmas.
After school, Jacob made this sad (hilarious) pile of a snowman. Then he had a snowball fight with it and knocked it’s head off. Meanwhile, Nicholas was kicking and walking backwards dragging his feet—”skating.” They chased each other around and Nicholas yelled, “Bullseye!” every time he hit Jacob with a snowball.
I remember when it snowed in Houston and we made little snowman, scraping the cars to get enough snow to build it. We had a snowball fight. I hit Michael in the face with a snowball which was mostly ice. He cried. And we had to go inside.
I stuck a ruler in yesterday evening. Nearly eleven inches. In the picture of the trash cans, you can see how much fell since we put them out Thurs nite. They didn’t pick the paper recycling (blue lid) up Thurs or the regular trash up Fri. Hopefully they come Monday. We missed the pick up last time so have month load of trash&em; both cans are full.
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From White Christmas. Shot Dec 24-25, 2010
Here are some pics from our drive to Schinnen Tuesday morning. They’re taken with my iPhone in a moving car so they have a sort of surreal quality to them. Not to mention the Hitchcock swarms of crows. I suppose the surreal part is appropriate given that it “never snows” here.
It warmed above freezing later that day. We saw snow falling from the trees. It was 36 yesterday, but it hasn’t been warm enough long enough to melt much. There’s still a thick blanket covering everything. Snow is falling and sea gulls are circling in the horse fields out back. And I swear I saw something that looked like a sandpiper Tuesday. OR it was a kiwi.
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From Snow. Shot Dec 21, 2011
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Saturday Matt went out the shovel the snow off the driveway and back patio. Jacob went out to help. I looked out the back window and this is what I saw: Matt giving Jacob a ride around the yard on the shovel.
It snowed quite a bit since Sat afternoon. I took a ruler out this morning. We have about 5-5.5″ inches accumulated. We were going to make a snowman but it won’t stick together. Great skiing and snowball fighting snow, not so good for the snowman. Suppose we could have scraped it all together and made a snow mound man. Instead we threw snowballs, Jacob “sledded” on the back patio (he means ice skated) and Nicholas fell in the yard and got stuck.
I think I’ll stay inside and use the rest of the day to finish some projects: the curtain I’m making for Nicholas’ room, the sweater blanket I started two years ago, the ikea stool I need to repaint because my tomato orange-red looks like salmon in the kitchen light, the scary masks…
Snow sucks. We were going to go the Xmas market in the Valkenburg Caves today. And I need to go to the post office to ship some boxes. But it snowed.
Started yesterday afternoon. Big flakes while we were out, so we went home. I slid out of the Edeka (grocery store) parking lot and speedily drove home at 50kph (that’s like 30mph). The kids think it’s awesome. Jacob is outside now scooping it up and eating it and throwing snowballs at the glass door.
Allegedly, it never snows here. It did last year, and everyone said, “oh, this never happens; it hasn’t snowed like this in years….” It did last year, it did this year, and it’s supposed to do it all week. Anyone who says it never happens, best be prepared to get hit in the face with a snowball.
Note: These pics were taken yesterday. It’s snowed a lot since. Big flakes right now. I’m sure we’ll be going out to make a snow man soon. So probably more pics coming.
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From First Snow of Winter. Taken Nov 29, 2010
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