What do you call an Eight-Foot Snowman...

The "Blizzard of 2006" has came and gone leaving behind about 8-10 inches of snow. Don’t even get me started on what these yahoos here in D.C. call a “Blizzard”. They need to spend a few years in the Northern Mid-West… like Utah!

East Coast snow is great because it is very dense (wet). This makes for great packing snow for things like forts, snowballs, and SNOWMEN!

Kayla and I had a great time all day Sunday. In fact, being a weekend, the whole neighborhood was out having a great time. Snowball fights were everywhere. A neighbor of ours and myself built a couple of snow-forts… only to have all the children tackle and destroy them with glee.

My next project was the Snowman. The bottom ball of the beast is between 500-800 lb.; the intermediate ball is around 300 lb.; and the head is about 80 lb. I had to use a stepladder to get the head placed upon the body. Kayla helped where she could and gave our snowman its final touchs with a carrot nose and scarf.

You can see more pictures at our snowman gallery.

Sparky