Finally!

At last we got a snowfall that managed to cover the grass and last more than an hour. Not much more: it fell in the wee hours of the morning and had turned to rain by noon. But we got out there at 8am and so managed to have a sledding day this winter at last. Favorite sledding style--A Family "Samlich": Daddy on the bottom, Edie in the middle, Mommy on top. And Bismarck cavorting down the hill next to us. No one around to take a picture, alas.


The rest of the neighborhood did come out eventually, after we'd returned indoors. "Snowbuddies," as Edith's friend Emma calls them, seemed to be the order of the day. When we went out to walk Bismarck in the evening, they were everywhere. Edith walked around checking them out.

The little kid snowbuddies...


The adult snowbuddies (the thaw already wreaking havoc on their bodily integrity)...


And the neighborhood giant...


As dusk fell, Edith tried to persuade us to shovel snow on top of her and perhaps turn her into a snowbuddy, too.