Joseph relived his childhood and had a lot of fun in the snow. He found two old tennis rackets and tried to make snow shoes. The homemade shoes worked fairly well and it was a fun experiment for Joseph.
When Kimball went out the first time, he wanted snow shoes too so we put a pair of big yellow shoes on him.
Joseph's next adventure was to make a mound of snow and make a snow cave. He let his mound sit for about an hour to solidfy and then he started to dig it out. He didn't get very far before it was too dark and he had to stop for the night. He really wanted another snow day off from work so he could keep working on his cave.
No work for Joseph again today. Our city must not have a plow system because none of the roads were plowed. I guess the snow usually doesn't last long enough to merit plowing them, I don't know. Personally, I think a plowed road would get the kids back in school faster. Anyway, Joseph was able to finish his snow cave with Kimball's help.
Disclaimer: In the following pictures Kimball is wearing Cita's pink mittens. The mittens are over Kimball's two pairs of gloves because we don't have snow gloves for him. It was only 14 degress and we figured it was better to have on pink mittens and have warmer hands.
Kimball didn't like crawling into such an enclosed area so Joseph adapted the cave into a snow tunnel and they crawled through the tunnel. The tunnel eventually became a small slide so Kimball could go "sledding" and finally the snow mound ended up as a snowman.
The temperature is supposed to be above freezing the next few days so our beautiful snow will soon be gone. Joseph has decided when we move again to move someplace with snow and mountains. We'll see how that ends up...no plans to move in the near future though.
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Kimball looks like he is having lots of fun. Ammon would be jealous. He keeps asking when it's going to snow here. The answer: never! Oh well.
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