Perhaps it takes us back to our youth and the fun we all had making snowmen in our yards. Could it be that in some way they remind us of a dear friend? Whatever it is I feel a spark of excitement when I build a snowman. When I was a child my twin brother and I use to see who could make the tallest snowman without it falling over. We even went as far as to drag a ladder from the garage and make our snowmen taller. It did not matter how cold or how snowy it was outside, we would spend hours making that perfect snowman.
Today there are contest for making the most unique looking snow person. Movies about them and books about them. Here in the South west we do not get snow. We improvise by making snowmen out of tumble weed. You go to the outer desert, find three nice round balls of tumble weed, place a tall spike in the ground, place the three balls through the middle of the spike on top of each other, spray them with white snow in a can and add white twinkle lights, eyes, a scarf, nose, twigs for arms and a scarf. Wa la ! You have an Arizona snowman!
If you are not into that you can always go to your nearest store and find all kinds of snowmen to place in your yard. Large ones out of large plastic bags that you fill with newspapers, hard plastic ones that have a light you plug into an electric outlet, there are ones that light up and have an air pump in them that blow up.
My favorite Christmas cartoon is "Frosty The Snowman". I love the picture book"The Snowman" Both of these are worthy of watching or reading with a fresh bowl of popcorn and enjoying with your family.
No matter how you look at it, one thing is for sure, snowmen are MAGICAL. They help to build wonderful memories.
A snow lady built by my daughter in law
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