Rose's Homework

Rose had homework this weekend, she had to build a snowman so she can use it as a procedural writing excercise at school next week.

Now with the amount of snow we have lying around at the moment you would think that would be easy enough but we had 2 major problems.  Firstly, all this snow has fallen at really low temperatures so it is very light and powdery, great for shovelling off the drive but rubbish for rolling into snowman-suitable balls.  And second, this weekend we have had the lowest temperatures of the winter, on Sunday morning it was a record low of -24 in Toronto (-30 in Cambridge where Tom grew up) with wind chills in the mid -30s.  Brrrrr.

So anyway, we had to watch the forecast and rush out into the garden for half an hour on Saturday afternoon when the thermometer briefly crept up above -10.  How about that? Good hair eh!

It is so cold that 3 days later the carrot is still intact, we left it outside for any hungry animals to forage but I think all the local rabbits and raccoons are more sensible than to poke their noses outside right now.