We recently had snow, which is probably entirely Alert Reader Pam and family's fault (more on that later.) I think we actually ended up with 4-5 inches. (The official reporting station in State College claims 4.6") It was a good packing snow, too, so Cassie and I went out and made a giant snow serpent.
Photo of Giant Snow Serpent just before it ate Cassie
I discovered a number of important lessons during and after helping with the snow serpent, which I'm passing along in case they're of any value:
1. If you sit in the snow without snow pants for longer than five minutes, your butt goes numb. But not before feeling really cold and a little damp.
2. Good packing snow is heavy.
3. If you kneel in the snow without snow pants for longer than five minutes, your knees go numb, but not before feeling really cold and a little damp.
4. If your legs ache the next day it's probably because you were kneeling and sitting in the snow for too long, or you're old, or probably a combination of the two. And, you probably didn't have any snow pants on.
That's about it. I guess the other thing I learned is that it's perfectly okay to eat snow - in fact, I highly encourage it - unless the snow you're eating is pretty close to the ground and then in that case you have to look out for little rocks, dirt, grass, little sticks, small frozen mammals, etc.*
Needless to say, Cassie did a great job with the sculpture (I generally supervised, ate snow, and made my knees and butt numb) and she had a lot of cars slow down as they went by. We're on a street corner, and so had the benefit of some traffic. Only once was there a backup, but fortunately no accidents or fiery explosions.
There's a small possibility of a good storm this weekend for State College, and I'm blogging about it at AccuWeather.com, which means there's almost no chance of it happening. But we'll see. Cassie says the next time we'll make something "really unusual." I'd love to do Godzilla, or maybe a giant Twinkie, but that would involve serious snow.
And some good snow pants.
*No small frozen mammals were harmed in the writing of today's post.
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