I purchased this craft kit for KLS:
Here’s the contents:
Here she is making it:
The walls are mortared and left to set:
Emi was very interested in the frosting, so we had to store it off the table while it was setting 🙂
The next step was to add detail via the black frosting:
All told it took KLS about 2 hours to make. Applying the decorations was the hardest and longest part. Here’s the finished product:
A detail shot of the decorations:
She did a great job didn’t she!
These photos were taken on average about a week apart. The first was taken the day after planting, and they are in chronological order.
They’ll continue to bloom for many months now 🙂
Yesterday and last night we got hit by a massive snow storm. As with last week, I decided to document it in pictures.
Here’s what we saw when I opened the garage door this morning:
Here’s a better look at the mail box:
Here’s the front steps:
It was a colossal snowfall. I’d actually cleared the drive way fully last night, and had to again this morning:
The snow was deep and heavy. The snowblower was worth it’s weight in gold! All this new snow had to go on top of yesterday’s snow, which itself is on top of the still-unmelted snow from last week. After clearing the driveway, we have a wonderful ice wall edging the sides:
Yes that’s a normal sized soda can!
And here’s the steps cleared once again. You can see we’re running out of places to put the snow:
I had to go out for a while afterwards. The roads were cleared, but the snow piles were titanic in places. Here’s a shot taken at school:
And here’s the school itself:
I’m guessing we got 20 – 24 inches in total these past two days. On top of the 10 inches last week, this means there is still thigh-high deep snow in our backyard. This is surely a winter to remember!