We had what I really hope is our last snow of the season this week. It snowed enough for A.J. and his mother to make a snowman in our yard. The snowman is now melting nicely, all his mass shifting down to his base, so that it looks like he’s been eating really badly lately. But his top hat remains at a jaunty angle and his carrot nose holds firm. I give him two days.
A.J. and I went outside yesterday morning to check out a tree that had fallen during the storm. The two of us started taking snowball target practice on it, then we turned on each other and played a game of snow dodgeball.
What he really wanted to do was play baseball.
“Can you hit me some ground balls?” he wanted to know. He’s determined to earn the starting shortstop job in t-ball, which starts next week.
“Buddy, there’s four inches of snow on the ground.”
“So?”
We weren’t the only team to have its practice snowed out. Later in the day, I was walking through town and the lacrosse team from the local high school came around the corner on a training run. I guess this is what you do when your field is covered in snow. They were in single file, about 25 of them, all in helmets and pads and carrying their sticks, and running straight at me. It was like something out of a Wes Anderson movie or something. I moved over on the sidewalk and gave them room.
It was only after they passed that it occurred to me that I could have high-fived each of them as they went by.
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Alas, I am sorry to report that the snowman has a terminal wasting disease. He has lost his hat, his nose and an arm, and his eyes have rolled to the back of his head. I think you ought to notify the next of kin.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear it. He was a good snowman.
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