Mother Nature gives and Mother Nature takes.
With our 5-8 inch late March snow storm that many are calling today a cruel April Fool’s Day joke I have decided to embrace the event.
I had planned on building a snow man and document it’s creation and demise. Fortunately a neighbor and his family built one last night.
What follows is a timeline and pictures of Mother Nature giving us the ingredients to make a snow man. And yes while difficult to show the ingredients that go into taking “Short Timer” away (sun and warmth) I will document his slow death, err, melt.
Short Timer was created March 31, 2008 – and melted away April ???
With temperatures in the forecast for the 50’s and over night lows in the upper 20’s I expect this to be a short lived life.
These are pictures from March 31, 3008 at 9 am, Noon, 3 pm and 5 pm, the making of “Short Timer”:
At 7 pm Short Timer was created and had a nice snow man outfit. The bright white dots are huge snow flakes illuminating with the flash of the camera:
April 1, 9 am:
Pictures of the morning after and of Short Timer from a distance. Not sure why the second picture is “dark”. You will see Short Timer is now naked but I plan on getting him things a snow man needs later today. You will also see Short Timer is casting a long shadow, a sign of things to come:
April 1, 2 pm:
Noooooooo!!!
Sometime in the past two hours Short Timer took a tumble. It looks like his time with us will be much shorter than I had hoped. The sun beating on his back and a slight lean in that direction caused the fall.
I went out and patched him up, reinforced his back a little. His head is a little deformed too as it is almost impossible to roll the snow into a ball.
As you can see he is about to get help from the shade but he has lost 6-18 inches in height:
April 1, 4 pm
Short Timer was doing a lot better in the shade but getting shorter and feeling a bit plain. I need to do some art work:
April 2, 11 am
Short Timer had a good night last night with the below freezing temperatures. Today may be another story with highs in the 40’s. I did finally get a little creative by adding branches for arms and some plastic for eyes and a nose. Had to add the Minnesota Gopher hat too:
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