The North Carolina/Dakota Snow

In North Carolina the snow is always wet and heavy and in North Dakota the snow is almost always this light fluffy stuff - hence the saying up here of 'pushing snow' - and down south of 'shoveling snow'...

Over the weekend the temperatures rose to the freezing mark and we had a very wet heavy snow - about a foot of it...

...it was so pretty and I love the 'quiet' of a heavy snow - no one is about (well, early on anyway)...

...when Scout, Jack and I first went out in the morning to tramp through the virgin snow there was practically no sound - the wind was calm - just the tinkle of Jack's tags as he bounded through the deep snow...

...it was the kind of snow that clung to everything...

...so pretty...

...then the shoveling began and you could hear the scrape of metal blade on concrete - there was no pushing this time - and it was really hard work - so we all took turns...

...after the hard work shoveling - it was time for some play shoveling...

...Scout loves tunneling - he always reminds me that he knows what to do in the event of a 'cave-in' - YIKES - wilderness survival training has it's benefits...

...Next it was time to build the world's largest snowman...

...Man - that's a big HEAVY ball of snow - just stop where you can't push any further and that's where he'll stand...

...His belly section required a ramp - I just love the little engineer in my boy...

...repurposing the ramp as stabilization to the midsection...

...his big ole head seemed easy to lift after the other two sections...

...adding a face of character - and an organic carrot nose...

...Meet Bob!