I made this for my children earlier this week in my front yard. I guess it’s my way of dealing with the Winter sometimes. If I could find someone to pay me to do that everyday, I believe I’d happily quit my job.( It also makes the neighbors stay away). I’m sure some of you have driving stories or large snowfall stories of your own.
I’ve heard of the nannerpus, but around here they are just half bannanas with their peels cut into eight slices. I’ve never seen a wild one before, even captured on film. Ok so is it urine or beer? My story is that I’m currently building an igloo. I never built one before, but its about half way complete. I should have done it last winter when we had twice as much snow.
It’s spray paint. Always wanted to build a full-size igloo. You using a box as your mold or cutting blocks from the frozen tundra there in Delaware?
A little of both. I kind of started wrong. I was just shovelling the driveway and got carried away and started hand shaping a foundation wall with some of the shovelings. Then yesterday I got a trowel out to cut some blocks and today I found a box to use to make blocks. I found some info online that shows me the right way, but I’m not starting over now.
Wow, that thing is really cool ! Our town builds an ice castle every year, and has a winter festival, parades, fire-works. We’ve built igloos and glorious snow-forts as kids, my brother and I. We had multi-room snow-forts, with slides, dungeons, etc. I haven’t played in the snow much lately. I’m sure when my wife and I decide to have children, I’ll be going back to my roots and showing them how to build a proper snow fort! LoL If you guys are in the North East, you might remember the ice storm of '98? That was insane ! Definitely one of the craziest winters ever. If you are not familiar, check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North\_American\_ice\_storm\_of\_1998
Yes, that was a decent year, Jbruck. I was a boy in January,1978, when Ohio here got a wicked storm. Cleveland had the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in mainland USA. (Probably because CLeveland sucks and Chicago blows…) But it made for one hell of a snowstorm, I was off school for quite some time and remember it fondly.
Here’s a link to the official winter carnival site. It’s pretty cool. Check it out if you’re bored. http://www.saranaclakewintercarnival.com
Granted…I’m from the south…but isn’t yellow snow…a bad thing?
Aye,… that why this 'puss be doubly frightening!!!
My igloo should be finished by tomorrow, if tonight’s and tomorrow’s rain aren’t too much for it. I learned that Eskimos can throw them together in about 2 hours. Mine is taking all week. Of course they have the advantage of experience and high quality snow pack. I’ve never done it before and have to make do with driveway scrapings. I also have made a lot of mistakes, and had to read up on their construction, but by then it was too late to start over.
Shirley, you will supply a photo of the finished adobe, I hope, Xander??
Yes, If I can find a camera. It looks more like a beehive.
As requested: a couple of pics of my igloo. Sadly, it did not survive yesterday’s higher tempatures and collapsed. Next time I build one, I will put it on the north face of the house out of the sun, and also make it more circular. It was a learn-as-you-go evolution, so next time I would not make the same mistakes. I learned a lot while constructing this. Its good survival training as well. 
This it rather frustrating, but here: 
I don’t have permission to delete my own images according to snuffhouse.
Nice! I used a trowel similar to yours to shape my snow too. You got Inuit blood in ya, boy?
No Inuit in me, just Irish and Scottish (probably some Norse too, as they liked to get into both of those). I took a lesson from this video: http://www.nfb.ca/film/How\_to\_Build\_an\_Igloo/ I didn’t have the ice knife that these Inuits had, so I used a saw to cut blocks and the trowel to fine tune them, and also pack the joints.
Hahahaha!!! I am laughing so freakin hard right now at how pleased Xander looks in the pics. It’s almost as if he’s saying, “Ha…I built a dadgum igloo bioooootches!” Seriously though, nice igloo Xander. I’d for sure live in it. Get me an Eskimo woman and climb in that bad boy and just…never mind me just fantasizing again!!
igloos are suprisingly warm. I had one for the better part of a winter when I was a kid. It was awesome. I state in the dang thing for hours. I wanted to move into one full time. It felt like it’s own little world.
My winter story is an iceicle of the enormous variety fell on my hand and broke two fingers while shoveling the porch roof off. Too bad I diddnt get it on video because the vonage commercial music would have been a perfect soundtrack. 
The other half is still on the roof. For those interested the xray is attached