Snow much fun

Brandon at the USHL game with the cadets - this picture was on MLIVE, the online newspaper here

Anika and Matt with Harry the Caterpillar- this was also on MLIVE

Mr. Snow the Snowman

Snowy the unicorn

Brandon and Anika both learned to use the snow blower

Our sledding hill

We have had much fun in the winter wonderland.  Lake effect snow dumps on some places, and barely touches the next - very curious - and very fluffy. Its light and powdery - perfect for snow angels and sledding - not for snow sculpting - until it warms up three days later.  Then its perfect for snow sculpting.  However, you will notice that most of the snow sculpture pictures are taken at night.  They get home from school and we sculpt - sometimes after supper.  By morning, the sculpture is somewhat identifiable, by the time they come home from school, its just a lump.  Temps don't stay cold here and we often get rainy days in between the snowy ones - so it all melts as quickly as it comes.  We had around 15 inches last Thursday night - snow day on Friday - so that is when they built the snowman. It was the storm that hit the Northeast - so it wasn't lake effect snow and therefore very packable from the get go.