Welfareloser's Blog

we got nearly two feet of snow here between monday evening and wednesday morning; more snow than we’ve seen in a long time.

school was cancelled on tuesday, and positiverolemodel and i got all excited… i mean, what kicks more ass than no school and snow up to your waist? we got a little over-enthusiastic and bundled the boys up to go out while it was still actively snowing tuesday afternoon. evilgremlin opted out at the last minute; spazmonkey started howling the minute he got a faceful of snow at 30 mph, and came inside not long after… dramaqueen ran in and out of the house a dozen times looking kind of shell-shocked, but stayed out for quite a while to help daddy shovel the walk and eat snow.

today was much nicer – sunny, no wind, and the boys stayed out for quite a while. the snow wouldn’t pack well enough for a snowman, but they had fun sinking up to their waists, getting dragged on the sleds, and throwing snowballs at each other.

i briefly considered bundling trogdor up and throwing him out the back door for a fat-baby snow-angel photo op, but my impulse control is in good working order today, so he stayed warm and dry.

i took some great movies of the fun on the new video camera, but i haven’t sat down yet to download them to the computer and shrink them down to a size suitable for sharing. here’s a brief rundown of today’s video, tho:

00:00 – 01:00 as prm helps eg get his boots back on, eg having promptly lost them in his first few steps into the snow, sm repeatedly pelts daddy in the face with large chunks of snow.

01:30 – prm yells at me to whitewash a certain boy’s face and see how he likes it.

*cut scene*

02:00 – 05:00 sm is happily throwing snowballs at the house, the patio table, and lots of other inanimate objects. dq is facedown in the snow, this apparently being the most efficient way to eat the snow.

07:30 – with all the boys at one end of the screen and prm at the other, prm says, “look… three slow-moving targets in a row…” and starts making snowballs.

08:00 – 15:00 lots of running in circles, with the occasional call for parental assistance in extricating short legs from deep drifts.