Snow-People Day

2020-04-05Emma, Us Standard

[Photos taken 05 – 06 April 2020, posted online 26 September 2020. Covid wave #3 is in progress, but contact tracing and quarantine being used more than strict restrictions which are still at 200 people per space, strangers 1 m apart at minimum.]

We woke up one April morning to the results of a massive overnight snowfall. It turned out it was perfect snow-people making material. (40-ish images)

Sunday 05 April 2020

Emma by the big snow-person we made.
This was the view out the stairway window when we woke up that morning. Needless to say, there had not been any icicles the day before.
There was enough wind to blow snow under the foyer-roof.
I hung out at a cafe for a bit. As time and covid restrictions went on, the owner of this cafe began to discourage people working on computers, so I’m currently not going there.
Oh, April.
At home, Anna working on a baking project.
Emma wanted to play doubles.
The nice camera was within reach.
I saw from the weather forecast that the snow would almost all be gone the next day, but to have something to do, Emma and I scraped the snow off of the parking lot.
Emma is an excellent worker!
All done! Now what?
It turned out the snow was the perfect moisture for making huge balls of snow.
Emma making ball #2.
Snow-person assembled! Happily we had a carrot in the fridge, but where to find small stones for eyes?
Trying to find small stones in the snow was not going well.
Happily we found snow-free stones under the small ‘bench’ part of one of the windbreakers.
Putting the last of the hair (or was it a crown?) in place.
I decided that was enough snow-building for me, but Emma wanted to make more snow-people, so she stayed out for a while longer.
A small snow-person being born.
Close-up.
It was hard to put eyes onto such small heads without them falling to pieces.
Working hard to get the eyes to stick.
I tried offering her a hat, but it was ‘too warm’.
Happy with her day’s work.
Meanwhile, Anna’s cinnamon buns came out of the oven.
Getting a cinnamon bun, and hot chocolate cup delivered through the window.
The food gave her energy to make one more small snow-person.
When we gave her the news that unfortunately the weather was not looking good for snow-people existing the next day, there was much sadness. Bjarki stepped in to help and suggested we take photos of all the snow-people to remember them better.
Baby #1.
Baby #2.
Emma took a photo of Bjarki by the big person.
Bjarki took a photo of Emma.
To save parts of the snow-people, the kids went outside and collected the stones, so Emma could make a memorial.

Monday 06 April 2020

By 4 pm the next day, this was all that was left of the snow-people from the day before! To save the last shreds of my sanity, I used my last remaining vacation days that week, for a total of 10 delicious vacation days, as the Easter weekend is 5-days long. All schools were on Easter-break as well.
Siblings horsing around a bit.
One of them took my picture.
Emma mid-air as she played with a ball.
I ventured to a cafe in Hafnarfjörður town that afternoon. I noticed a couple of small sailboats in the harbor, maybe they were covid-travelers?