Snow-mageddon 2008!!!

A local radio personality is doing a hearty tongue in cheek broadcast on the day's snowfall, highlighting the tremendous and utterly ridiculous media coverage of what has become another bust of a forecast. The people of Seattle are speaking out from their fully automated and stocked bunkers, from their Honda's with chains on the rear wheels, from their child filled homes due to school closures, and from places of employment with stories of commutes taking an amazing and ridiculous 30 to 45 SECONDS longer than normal. Mass hysteria has gripped the area...I am so glad we are better people than our parents. We look back on the snow days of the past with fond memories of hours of freezing fantastic fun, when in fact, according to today's safety procedures and warnings our parents would be locked up for endangerment!! How dare you allow your children to frolic in such a dangerous environment!! How dare you allow them to lose a glove or a boot, For the LOVE OF...DUCT TAPE IT ON!! Better yet don't let them go outside it's practically 34 degrees outside. We should declare an environmental and geographical emergency!! Where is global warming when we need it? (I think I'm gonna hyperventilate...where's my paper bag?)

Jonathan made a Calvin and Hobbes-esque snowman eating a carrot. Thankfully his frostbite was minimal and he will recover quickly, phew, potential disaster averted all in the name of snow sculpting. I've downloaded the latest legal description of jumps on sledding runs and have found out maximum height limits have again, for the safety of all children young and old, been reduced from a bone breaking height of 1.5 inches to a much safer politically correct 1/2 of and inch. I am so thankful we are safer now. No more bruised buns or jumping over dad, there will be none of that 'round here. A kid down the street was just arrested for using a...SLED, gasp!

Not to be out done and in a effort to utilize his school sponsored snowman building kit Gabe crafted a well rounded second to his brother's snowman. It was a test of endurance to brave the ever endangering temps hovering at a water freezing 32 degrees with wind chills dropping the temp to a freeze drying 31 degrees. The brave and intrepid artist pushed himself past the limits of most human endeavors to get the corncob pipe placed with incredible accuracy just in time to retreat to prevent hallucinations due to his hypothermia.

Oh, Mac&Cheese and hot cocoa have never saved a better pair of explorers. Later today, per or insurance carrier, we will have safety fencing and flood lights installed to prevent anyone from be placed in a dangerous situation while viewing the statues.

I hear rumors of an underground movement to actually build an illegal sledding run in the neighbors back yard, the jumps will be well over 3 inches high. I must do my part to squash any such action......or at least test the thing out!! WooHOO!! Were off again!!

Tony

P.S. The Psycho Cookies are on Cheryl's camera...I'll get them posted soon.