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After being home sick from school for an entire week, my son woke up this morning to find out that busses have been cancelled and there's no school! I think this snowman reflects his mood this morning pretty well. :-)

#1: janet kennedy (jlgoose) on Dec 4, 2007

I don't miss snow days at all! Cute image.

Nice puzzle ;o)

I miss snow days!! thank you for the puzzle
(more big b&w please)

I miss snow too. At least let it snow at Christmas ;o)

Nice puzzle.

Naneki - I just finished another big B&W!

Thanks for the kind comments, everyone! My son had a hard time getting out of bed in time for school this morning. He said his legs hurt, lol!

I'm glad to hear that your son is well again. :)
This is a beautiful puzzle Meg. I love how you did the arms, one white and one black. Nice. Cool tree and I love the ball on his cap!

No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to grow these at my house. :( I appreciate your snowman that much more. :)

Thanks for the fun. ^>^

Great snowman! I love snow days. Not many in southern Missouri but when we first moved here and it actually snowed a lot, the kids, used to Colorado snow,got ready for school and waited for the bus. No one thought to check for a snow day.

It seems like it doesn't snow here (Oklahoma) as much as it did when I was a kid, but we got to build a snowman last year. We made him a redneck with a trucker hat and a flannel shirt!

Nice puzzle, Meg!

Hope you took a photo BG! I'd love to see that snowman. ;-)

I did, but I'm not technologically advanced enough to do anything with it. I still don't have a myspace page, though I plan to start one before I have to go back to school in a few weeks.

Please let me know your address when you get a MySpace page up. :D

I built a snow man just a couple days ago. I follow my father's tradition of building a snowman, which does indeed start with a stack of big snow balls, but then gets sculpted into a more human shape. Arms, legs, face all sculpted out of snow, without sticks or carrots or lumps of coal. Usually they stand about seven feet tall.

Last year we didn't have any good snowman building days (need at least a couple inches of good sticky snow and the kids have to be out of school). This year the first good snowman day we had happened to be just a few days after our newest baby was born, so I built a snowman holding a snow baby in his arms. All the passers by seemed to be assuming it was a snow lady, so I decided to go with the flow and give it long hair and a vaguely skirt-like base.

Though I always do my best to make my snowmen look friendly and cheerful, I do tend to give them rather deep set eyes, prominent brows and big noses, in hopes of creating enough shadow so that the white-on-white face can be recognized. Somehow, after a few days of melting/weathering, their faces always turn into rather horrific grimaces. I'm a little worried what this one holding a baby is going to look like in a few days. It was holding up OK the last time I looked at it, but it had developed a serious lean, so maybe it will fall over before it starts looking like some kind of Satanic baby snatching monster.

Wish I could see it Jan. Did you take a picture?
I've never known anyone to put so much thought into making a snowman. Ice sculpture yes. This is the most clever "birth announcement" I've ever heard. :D

Sounds like you had some fun, Jan.

Yup. I have some photos but they didn't come out all that well. White-on-white sculpture against a background of white photographed on a hazy day with no shadows, as snow days so often are.

Your photo sounds a little like a puzzle that JC made a while back. :)

Quite a fun solve. Enjoyable invokes great memories.

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