"cavelamb" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:
"cavelamb" wrote in message
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This is our first white Christmas in years. I'm loving it --
especially since my son is home to do the shoveling. d8-)

We got some of that today too - first time in ages.

Merry White Christmas, ya'll.

Richard
Well, you probably appreciate it even more than we do. Enjoy it; it
won't be around for long.

Merry Christmas to you, too, Richard.

I took pictures already.

D is going to go out and make a snowman (she's never done that!)
and store some snowballs for summer.

Yeah - I know. I remember Bill Cosby's piece about it.
But I don't want to ruin her fun...

As long as she doesn't throw them at ME!


Richard



Revenge!


http://www.willkern.com/Revenge.html

Oh, jeez, if I ever heard that one, I forgot it. But Cosby was from
Philly. I lived in Trenton at that age. Right up the road. Same culture.
Slushballs. Frozen slushballs. And mothers who found out about them and
wouldn't let us throw them in the summer. g



Or dropped them in the iced tea pitcher.

It snowed again here tonight.
About 1/2" - wet.

Oh what fun...

There is so much for kids to learn about snowball warfare. For example, you
have to make dozens of snowballs and pack them into the sealed ammo lockers
in the walls of your fort. Then, when the cavalry division of the enemy
attacks on sleds, you have an ammo handler in the fort who breaks open the
lockers and keeps feeding you snowballs so you can maintain a heavy
defensive barrage. The slushballs are for last-ditch defense. They're only
fired at close range, because their trajectory arc makes them too easy to
dodge beyond 20 feet or so.

I'll bet that Texas kids never learn these things. Too bad. Oh well, 'hope
they have fun, anyway. d8-)

--
Ed Huntress