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Day 7: White Christmas Eve
Dec. 24th, 2006 09:18 pmSo what do you do with three feet of snow?
Go sledding.
Topograhpy review of my parents' house: The house is built into the side of a hill. The garage and front door are on the third floor on the north side, and my father's workshop opens on the first floor on the east side. Farther down the hill to the east is the dam that blocks up the creek and gives us the aforementioned lake.
A small herd of cousins is in town now, so the engineers (led by my brother) began a construction project. The idea is that, on an inner tube, you start up by the garage and sled down past the shop, onto the banked curve and all the way down to the dam. The banked curve is, naturally, the hardest part of this, and by the time you reach that you've dropped at least twenty vertical feet and are going decently fast.
You have to see it to know what I'm talking about. The wall is anywhere from four to six feet tall, depending on which side you're standing on, and solid snow. Pictures are... somewhere. If I get a chance I'll upload some.
Then there was the christmas eve family gathering... you all know how I feel about extended family by now. By then, about 1, it was snowing again, and still is. On the return to the house, my brother and father decided that the obvious next step was to build it up by making ice/snow bricks and stacking up the top of the wall.
We'll see how that turns out.
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Go sledding.
Topograhpy review of my parents' house: The house is built into the side of a hill. The garage and front door are on the third floor on the north side, and my father's workshop opens on the first floor on the east side. Farther down the hill to the east is the dam that blocks up the creek and gives us the aforementioned lake.
A small herd of cousins is in town now, so the engineers (led by my brother) began a construction project. The idea is that, on an inner tube, you start up by the garage and sled down past the shop, onto the banked curve and all the way down to the dam. The banked curve is, naturally, the hardest part of this, and by the time you reach that you've dropped at least twenty vertical feet and are going decently fast.
You have to see it to know what I'm talking about. The wall is anywhere from four to six feet tall, depending on which side you're standing on, and solid snow. Pictures are... somewhere. If I get a chance I'll upload some.
Then there was the christmas eve family gathering... you all know how I feel about extended family by now. By then, about 1, it was snowing again, and still is. On the return to the house, my brother and father decided that the obvious next step was to build it up by making ice/snow bricks and stacking up the top of the wall.
We'll see how that turns out.
click
