There are exceptions to nearly every rule. Recently, the Texas Blaxtons unearthed what is perhaps the only instance in which a thing is not bigger in Texas.
Last week, a major meteorological event occurred and there was actually snow and ice to suffice the construction of a snow man. The boys--myself included in this description due to the childhood-inducing effect of sub-freezing precipitation on the psyche of a winter-starved adult--bundled up soon after breakfast and quickly marred the 1.5 inches of pristine winter wonder yard. The "Making Snowballs 101" course was mastered by PT in no time and Avery set the curve in "Finding Used Snowballs On the Ground That Haven't Crumbled Yet 101." The wonderful advantage of Texas snow is that it is of perfect packing viscosity (no, this is probably not the most correct term, but its fun to say and we are talking about snow in Texas for goodness' sake) and in no time we were rolling the "legs" of The Lone Frosty. He ended up about as tall as PT, who is less and less short every day, and a knit hat, two branches and a carrot completed him...in PT's eyes that is.
You might notice that this post is strangely void of pictures, which I suppose is not so strange of Padron's posts. But since this is a family blog, it would seem rather...well...inappropriate to share publicly the only picture we captured of our creation. You see, PT was the one who placed the carrot and instead of giving him a face, PT decided to make ours, very definitively, a snow MAN.
Three minutes later, PT form-tackled the unfortunate fellow and less than 6 hours later, all that had not melted forever were his appendages, strewn on the familiar, brown, Panhandle in December lawn. His fate, not so unlike ours, should give us pause to consider the infinite love of our Creator, who did not doom us to oblivion, but humbled himself and assumed our frail, transient-as-snow-in-Amarillo nature so that we could share in his eternal, divine nature.
Not too bad...for a Texas-sized snowman, that is.
No pictures needed, Padron - you paint wonderful ones with your words!
ReplyDeleteWell I guess your right after all it was a snowMAN. At least you know he is starting to understand the differences. And yes you tell it well enough that pictures are not needed.
ReplyDeleteBeginning to write your thesis?
ReplyDeleteOr,have you've begun Anatomy 101?
That had a great "surprise" application right in the middle of an otherwise routine account of a rather routine activity! Keep it to read to the boys when they are a little older; it's wonderful.