Well as quick as all the snow came, it seems to be disappearing equally as quickly. So me and the boys have maximised our time in the snow with more sledging and even bigger snow creations! So on day 2 of the snow it was out with the buckets, spades and the recycling glass box to start making bricks for our snow house (igloo).
Joshua did a great job with his beach spade by digging the snow and helping me fill the container which we used as a mould for our snow bricks.
Slowly, brick by brick, the snow house started to take shape.
At this stage Brandon had already got cold and bored and retreated to the warm indoors to watch from the living room window.
"Tah Dah", the finished house. Unfortunately our brick moulds were too big to taper the walls inwards. So we have a roofless igloo.
This is the main entrance, and we even made a bench chair in the back. The igloo makes a perfect quiet office space for Daddy to work from home during the bad weather. The central heating out there isn't great though and I haven't figured out how o run power out there yet.
After the construction work was complete we decided to take the sledges over to Wick Park Lake and see if any of the birds were braving the cold waters.
As expected the lake is completely frozen and not a bird in sight.
Me and my boys, all wrapped up nice and warm.
The snow was pretty thick and pulling the sledges was tricky as the big soft powdery snow was prone to causing tipping. Joshua ended up pinching my gloves as his got soaked leaving his little pinkies ice cold.
And for the first time the hood and mask on the coat was done up fully as the chilling weather started to take its toll.
Well that's the snow adventure virtually over. The igloo has nearly melted away already, but both snowmen are still standing strong. Will there be more snow this winter/Christmas - I hope so.
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