It tried really hard to snow last night. Because we’re on the top side of this particular hill, our street probably saw the best of that attempt. Snow can only mean one thing in these parts: Snowball Fight!
I have no desire to get wet and cold and somebody needs to photograph the event, so I stayed perched on our tangy porch. Snow is so rare here on the Oregon Coast, we’ve never invested in snow gear. The boy just ends up borrowing a too-big-for-him pair of gloves and slipping plastic bags over his socks before putting on his shoes. I insist on the hat, because I’ve become my mother, “You know 90% of your heat escapes from you head, right?”
IZ and Boy Wonder are both very intense warriors. Not much smack talking goes down—but I suppose it’s hard to aim, throw, duck, and diss your opponent at the same time. Of course, I would never let that stop me from inserting an appropriate photo caption.
“Bring it you scruvey dog!” shouted Captain IZ Sparrow wondering why his head was so cold. Didn’t he used to have to hair?
“Oh, I’ll bring it all right. And I’m a homo sapien not a cannis lupus familiaris. Clearly you need to have your eyesight checked.” Boy Wonder hadn’t learned the fine art of smack talk and his parents won’t let him swear yet.
“Not the face, not the face!”
“Not the nutz, not the nutz.” (Narrator’s aside: Ok, I swear, I’m not making this stuff up!)
“That’s pretty good, Dad, for a guy mom says can’t dance.”
“You and your camera!”
“Hey, someday you’ll be happy I made you stop and take a photo. Somebody has to capture all this for posterity.”
“Not at the house!!” (Photographer’s note: check out that snowball in mid-air. That’s not easy people!)
“Seriously? I just told you Not. At. The. House!”
“Uh. . . seriously, no?”
Well now people, I think you’ve seen enough to know the snowball fight has come to a conclusion. I don’t know if it was the Great Snow of 2008, but we’re claiming it as great fun.
There’s only one thing left to do:
It *was* fun and the hot chocolate was tasty. I like snow like this – just enough to have a fight – not enough to be a lengthy inconvenience. I enjoyed your captions too – very funny – that was a great “dance” pose… 😉
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This is the upside of living the way we do—we can stop for snowball fights when the opportunity presents itself, eh? ~W
Wow…you look like you got the amount of snow we did last night…I also live on a hill and it snows a bit more “up there” than it does down the street below (which makes people do a double take when I drive around town with a slightly snow covered car) I have no snowball pictures though…the cat hates it when I throw snowballs at her…although we do sometimes dance together in the living room (but that’s kind of a secret) I loved your captions!!
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Yeah, you can always tell the people who live at higher elevations. We had fun, but it’s all gone now! ~W
Nice shot of the snowball in mid-flight. I am impressed. 😀
This made me miss snow … okay, not really, but I felt like I should miss it. Does that count?
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I think it does count! 😀 ~W
Making stuff up? That’s called creative writing, dear. I love the snowball in midair! It didn’t snow here, but it did “ice.” And the district was “asleep at the wheel” as in they didn’t bring us in an hour late. Conditions were horrendous. I aged by at least 20 years getting to school, and then waiting a half hour for Alison to call me that she had arrived safely. I’m thankful that we put gravel in the back end of her pick up and that it’s 4 wheel drive. (not that it helps much in sheet ice)
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Ice is scary—I get why you don’t like it. It scares me enough that I won’t traverse down the hill if we’ve got ice. I make IZ drive. heh. ~W
Awesome pics! And even better caption job 😉
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Oh thank you… as snapshots, they’ll do. Lately, the light in these parts makes for very blurry photos. I’m ready for the sunlight of spring! 😀 ~W
I love that BW looks like he’s dressed for a snowball figh in the arctic circle 😉
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Heh, you like that, eh? 😀 ~W
So glad you guys were able to enjoy some snow. We have it in abundance here 🙂 The photos were great & will certainly be cherished in the future. I just wish we could have seen you as well! But like so many Mommies, you were behind the camera. Maybe next time.
Love,
Jodi
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Uh, yeah, photos of me are limited. I try not to give up the camera! 😀 ~W
Fun FUn FUN!
We got a mighty heap of the white stuff last night. Now I get to go drive in it. oh joy to that.
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Oh, the white stuff headed your way? Driving in it is no fun. It tried to snow again last night, but it was so very wet it didn’t stay. I wondered where it landed. 😀 ~W
More than fun!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sooooo jealous!! yippepeppeeeee for snow!!! xo
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Um, trade the sunshine for the wet, wet, rain. 😀 But, yeah, it was a lot of fun. . . to watch! 😀 ~W
Cool! Great way to have fun in the snow. We don’t get much snow here — just twice in 4 years but it’s so much fun when it happens!
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We don’t get all that much either… so it is a treat! ~W
So fun! What I love about this was that my expectations of the snow were so high and then we actually move out to the fight and they were standing knee deep… no wait. They were standing on the grass. 🙂
I LURVE the cocoa mug. Gorgeous.
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It wasn’t much snow, that’s for sure. By the time they got out to play it had melted quite a bit. The reason they’re on grass, though, is because the boy rolled all the snow on the front lawn into a huge ball for a snow man and then ran out of snow. 😀 ~W
See, here’s what bugs me. I lived in WA/OR for over 15 years. We didn’t get very much snow. Now, that I don’t live there, my “friends” tell me how much snow they have had, even if it is just a dusting. Yeah, that’s just not fair. I’m feeling whiney today! 🙂
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I hear you. But, rest assured, this year, it’s merely been a dusting. Hardly enough to call snow! ~W
What a fun post, the dialogue and photos made me smile. I’ve never had a snowball fight before in my life, I think I’m long overdue! I’ll have to chuck one at shawn when we get to Ashland. 😉
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You are overdue! But I’m thinking you’ll more than make up for it this Winter. You’re headed to snow!! 😀 ~W