It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Solstice

Sunday, 12 December 2010

There was no precipitation today. The sun came out, but the temperature dropped. Owen and I went outside to play – but only for about 5 minutes. I didn’t have any snow pants to wear, so my legs froze within 2 minutes, and Owen kept getting stuck in the snow that was taller than he is. He did find one packed-down snow bank, and he thought it was pretty cool that he could stand up on it and be taller than me. Then he slid down it like it was a slide. Then I said we needed to go in because it was too cold outside.

Here are some pictures from today:

This is the view from our deck.

Here’s the view from Owen’s window.

Here’s a snow plow doing what snow plows do best.

…And again.

Here’s the northern half of our deck.

Here’s the side of the garages. See my shadow, lurking sinisterly?

Here’s a car that’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

Here’s the front of my Cavalier. This is child’s play to my hearty, brave vehicle (our old Jetta, on the other hand, would probably require a new transmission if it got stuck in this much snow).

You might wonder: What does the typical Minnesotan do on days like this? Well, depending on how limber you are, you might want to consider doing what this Minnesotan is doing…

Yeah, there are probably gonna be a lot of toe-sucking days coming up.

Here she is again:

Mmm…toes.

Here’s another funny thing: Lots of people must’ve been looking online for information about the weather; typing in “Minnesota Snow” into Google, no doubt. This resulted in my filmlet (titled Minnesota Snow) getting over 30 hits on Saturday and over 80 hits today. That’s the most it’s gotten in a single day this entire calendar year. Here’s the filmlet, by the way, if you care: