Only in our neighborhood.............. We woke up December 9th to find a couple giant snowballs across the street from us in Mr. Sam's front yard. He told us that he wanted to make a huge snowwoman for Bryn and Henry to enjoy and that he did!! He pulled late nighters hosing down the snow balls to turn them into solid ice, bought ice crampons for his boots (since he did most of his work on a sheet of ice), pushed the wheelbarrow around the neighborhood collecting only the whitest snow from surrounding lawns, went through a couple pairs of waterproof gloves and worked on the snow creation for months.
Henry and Bryn had a blast helping him with their tiny fist fulls of snow to add to the bottom ball.
He asked H and B if they would make her ( the snow woman) a flag and scarf. Jay found an old canvas tarp and the kids went to work painting a fire flag and polka dot scarf. Below is Jay tying the scarf around the headless neck.
Last week while Henry was biking in the driveway Bryn was hanging out with Mr. Sam and helping him add some snow to the melting woman.
The coolest thing other than the final product was to see how many people came to our street from all over Madison to get a look at her. It was definitely a study in social science as people slowly drove up smiling, rolling down windows and yelling out encouragement and thanks to Mr. Sam and plenty of strangers getting out of their cars to make videos, take pictures and just chat about nearly anything.
I almost died when we drove home from work yesterday to find the snow woman DONE!!! It was a 50 plus degree day but he managed to add long hair (grapevines and evergreen boughs) and the biggest red lips I have ever seen. The candle eyes lit up for effect as well.
Someday Henry and Bryn will truly appreciate what an amazing neighbor they have in Mr. Sam who gave up hundred of hours to make them a winter/spring (summer?) memory they will have forever. Thanks Mr. Sam. We LOVE her!!!
He asked H and B if they would make her ( the snow woman) a flag and scarf. Jay found an old canvas tarp and the kids went to work painting a fire flag and polka dot scarf. Below is Jay tying the scarf around the headless neck.
Sam hanging the fire flag from one of her branch arms!
Last week while Henry was biking in the driveway Bryn was hanging out with Mr. Sam and helping him add some snow to the melting woman.
The coolest thing other than the final product was to see how many people came to our street from all over Madison to get a look at her. It was definitely a study in social science as people slowly drove up smiling, rolling down windows and yelling out encouragement and thanks to Mr. Sam and plenty of strangers getting out of their cars to make videos, take pictures and just chat about nearly anything. This past week as we sadly watched the snow melt, Mr. Sam told us that he was told that there was a website called snowmen against global warming. Sam was happy with what he had accomplished but once the website was mentioned he wanted to finish a head so he could add his creation to the site.
I almost died when we drove home from work yesterday to find the snow woman DONE!!! It was a 50 plus degree day but he managed to add long hair (grapevines and evergreen boughs) and the biggest red lips I have ever seen. The candle eyes lit up for effect as well.
Someday Henry and Bryn will truly appreciate what an amazing neighbor they have in Mr. Sam who gave up hundred of hours to make them a winter/spring (summer?) memory they will have forever. Thanks Mr. Sam. We LOVE her!!!
1 comment:
I can't get over the size of the snowman great job!!
Jil
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