Tyler and Gretel went skiing last Sunday, while I sadly had to shovel snow at work. They saw two moose on the trail, though, and although this picture's far away, you can see two moose behind the little Gretels!
This is a better shot when they got up close. Moose are so big they don't really care about anything, so they went right about their business of eating sticks while they skiid by.
My concertina (an instrument like a small accordian) came this week! I've been excited to start learning how to play! You can see Gretel's not so excited. She howled for the first time, then started whimpering as though she thought I was dying. I think Tyler's been quite happy to work during my off time the past few days, too :o)
Last week we thought spring was here--no snow on the roads, easy driving, even temps in the low 40s! The past two days have proven us very wrong, unfortunatly. We had a blizzard yesterday, and got about 15 inches of snow before things started warming up to rain last night. Tyler and I had the early afternoon off, so we decided to build an igloo with the large amounts of perfectly wet snow! Tyler started on construction, here he's measuring his circle to make sure it'll be big enough. We used the large blue bin to pack blocks from and started stacking them!
Gretel really wanted to help. Unfortunately, being non-human, she had no desire to build something, only to destroy it! She was quickly fired from her temp igloo-helper job and came to help me do some exterior decorating by our cabin driveway.
You can't have all that snow and not make a snow man! Well, a snow-porcupine to be precise. Holding my birthday flowers. Isn't the porcupine cute??
I went to help Tyler with igloo construction when the perky porky was complete. Once you start stacking bricks, it gets tricky because you have to angle them inwards to make a dome. Technically speaking, you're supposed to stack them in a spiral, but we sort of forgot until we were halfway through. She still turned out beautiful, though!
Just before we put the last blocks on, I took my few last breaths of fresh air from inside the dome.
Once the top's complete, I cut myself out and made a door-hole! Whew!
Tyler finished off the igloo with this nice entry-way.
Inside the igloo, our body temps quickly raised the humidity levels, so my camera instantly fogged. It was quite cozy in there! We briefly discussed sub-leasing the igloo, but we sadly warmed up last night and it caved in. We'll have to rebuild tomorrow! We cooled off again, and it's been snowing all day. We'll try again for that igloo!
