{"id":35137,"date":"2026-01-25T13:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35137"},"modified":"2026-01-25T13:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:37:49","slug":"snow-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35137","title":{"rendered":"Snow (Sun)Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a while since Pennsyltucky has had a massive snowfall event. Like, about ten years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, Mother Nature is socking it to us today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The long-range forecast has called for a major snow event this weekend for about a week now, and the snow totals have ranged from about 12 inches to about 30 inches. Yesterday, the numbers came down a bit, into the 12-14 inch range, and I’m not really sure how much I’ll have when all is said and done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is how it looked yesterday afternoon. It was bitterly cold, in the teens, and the snow on the ground was the last remnants of what fell last weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eagle-eyed observers will notice a bird’s nest on the ground right. It was in the parking lot yesterday morning, and I picked it up so it wouldn’t get run over by a car or something. Foolishly, I tossed it into the yard, where it slowly disappeared beneath the snow…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It had not disappeared yet when I rolled out of bed about 7:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bird’s nest was still visible. And the parking lot had been plowed, though it was difficult to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By 9:30, the bird’s nest was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 10:30, some kids went out with sleds. They were never heard from again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For reasons unknown, about quarter past 11 I decided to shovel the sidewalk. It was bitterly cold — about 11 degrees — and the snow was very dry and easy to move, but it was also thick and heavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An hour and a half later, I must ask. Why did I ever bother?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This storm is supposed to wrap up about midnight, I think. The snow is going to linger on the ground, though; it’s not supposed to get out of the teens and twenties this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sometime in November, I stopped at Five Below and bought a LEGO-like Care Bears<\/em> building set. Specifically, of Cheer Bear, which was the Care Bear stuffed toy I had as a child. (I also had a Tenderheart Lion.) It’s pink and it has a rainbow, and I don’t care. I’m a straight male, and if I want a LEGO-like Care Bear that’s pink and has a rainbow, I will, dammit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After shoveling the walk, I made some tea and sat down to build this. I had some difficulty reading the instructions, even with glasses on, and I often resorted to using my phone to magnify the pages. The construction was a bit on the intricate side, and it’s a very solid<\/em> model, but also a bit fragile; the legs break off easily, and I broke the ears off affixing the stickers, which is why they look weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has an internal light feature, which you can sort of see in the picture above, though it’s not especially impressive as it only functions on one side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, it was a cute, inexpensive thing, perfect for building on a snow (Sun)day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m going to make another cup of tea, put on some classical music, and get back to reading Tim Alberta’s The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory<\/em>, which I started and then got sidetracked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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