This past week has brought great fluctuations in the weather here in Hancock, though our snow has managed to mostly stay on the ground. One week ago, we had "life threatening blizzard conditions" according to the National Weather Service (and that lasted for two days - Wednesday and Thursday) with a high temp of 2 and windchills of anywhere from 15 to 30 degrees BELOW zero. We (the girls and I) didn't leave the house. Friday was a veritable heat wave at 16 degrees and sunny, and Ella asked to go "play in the snow", so out we went, donning snow gear, grabbing a sled, and heading for the nearest hill...our front yard. We spent about half an hour outside enjoying beautiful blue skies and sunshine and white sparkly snow before heading in.It continued to warm up over the weekend,
reaching 32 degrees (and thus melting weather) on Sunday and Monday. Today it took another dive, predicted to reach 2 again tonight. But in spite of the cold, Winter Carnival is in full swing, with the theme of "Scary Creatures with Icy Features." And this was the 3rd annual installment of our youth group's All-Nighter Statue Build in the Barnhart yard. After about 3 hours of snow, water, slush, ice and much fun - we have a very large rendition of Jaba the Hut gracing our front yard.In addition, the sculptors decided to leave their mark
on our front snowbank (next to the road) and made their own version of Mount Rushmore. This one is much more interesting than the real thing.
And since everyone seems to enjoy them, here are a few random photos of the girls, Fletcher and Noelle.
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Now this just isn't fair. We had to endure -30 windchills, but without any of the fun snow to accompany it. All of the frostbite, none of the fun, I say.
Thanks for all the pics. (Especially Noelle, who I haven't seen before.) The other ones are great, too. Where did you take that deer picture?
I like the picture of Fletcher and Noelle. it seems to capture the essence of their relationshipb
err...relationship
The deer picture was taken on the North Shore at Gooseberry Falls State Park. The last picture is at Palisade Head. Ella hiked about half of the hill herself (I'll let you guess which half). I hope to post more details about the North Shore trip soon.
Thank you so much for the delightful pictures and comments, Rachel. Jaba the Hut must be mammoth! I was hoping to see your face carved in the snowbank, Steve. Looks like there's no deficit of snow, there. Here either! And more coming! Thanks again...the pictures are great!
Looks like lots of fun!
I hate to say what I thought Jaba the Hut was when I first saw that picture...let's just say it has something to do with dog poop soup (and it's not the soup part).
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