Yeah, yeah, yeah…Go on and insert your joke about how bad southerners are at dealing with snow. I suppose we deserve it. The fact remains though that we just don’t get it enough to become proficient in handling it. Remember the first time you made biscuits? Terrible, right. Right! The more you made them, though, the easier they got. That’s us and snow.
Tuesday night we got a good inch of snow. That is like ten inches in other people’s worlds. Heck, it’s like twenty inches in other people’s worlds!
Since we don’t have sleds we began to google what we could use as a substitute. We quickly learned that cardboard did not work.
Neither did large plastic tubs.
Surprisingly, baking sheets and plastic laundry baskets worked pretty well. Well, well-ish. Go on and click the ‘proper use of a laundry basket’ link. It’s pretty classic Stella. She sleds about like she dances.
The Proper Use of a Laundry Basket.
Wednesday night we got positively dumped on – a good four inches.
At night, the kids from the local college showed up on the sledding hill across from our house and made a party of it. I brought them chocolate chip cookies and they played with the oldest. The others were snowed in with my parents.
We used a pool float I found on sale at Target . It worked perfectly!
There’s something pretty magical about snow at night – especially in Alabama.
The snow was nice and wet. Perfect for snowballs and snowmen.
The UAH kids were so nice. They included James in their giant snowman endeavors. Calling him ‘buddy’ and ‘dude’ and sending him on snow gathering missions.
I mean, it wasn’t quite as nice when I saw that they’d made their snowman anatomically correct but hey, whatcha gonna do.
It’s all about trade offs…