Work/Play Day

Yesterday....I spent the day playing with these fabrics and ric-racs to make a new block for my Paper Doll Quilt/Applique Club. So I guess you could say I worked.... but to me, drawing and cutting out fabric is play.

Kassidy's home every day with me now starting this week until after the New Year because she is off track from her year round school. Now that Sterling's in Jr. High, he no longer has time off because his school is traditional schedule...so it's just me and Kass in the day.


So as per her request....we made sugar cookies.

While I worked/played with my fabric, Kass decorated the cookies with frosting and sprinkles.....she layered them between wax paper and stacked them in Tupperware to keep them fresh (preparing for Sterling and his friends came home from school and eat them all!) Of course, she saved some for her Dad.

This was the view outside my window....still VERY cold here...about 12 degrees.

And still more snow throughout the day....on and off.

This was the amount of NEW snowfall that we woke up to in the morning....about 6 inches. I measure it on the top of the railing on my back deck.

It's been snowing here since Saturday night and that's about how long it's been since I've seen Mr. Honey...poor Mr. Honey has the task of putting snowplows on 18 trucks.....and putting salters (for slick roads) on 4 more trucks, maintaining ALL of those trucks, plows and salters whenever they break down...PLUS...he also has to plow snow. Mr. Honey has a very busy schedule when it snows.

So Mr.Honey works in the snow while we play in it.....no fair.

This is how we played in it yesterday......SNO-FLINGS!!!! I found them on Monday while out doing a little shopping. YAY! When I saw them I yelled SNO-FLINGS!!!! and threw 4 of them in my cart. Kassidy just looked at me and said "what are sno-flings?"

Trust me, she knows what they are now and so did Sterling when he got home from school.

Does anybody out there remember sno-flings?

My brothers and sisters and I along with my cousins and every other kid in the neighborhood, used to have a total blast in the snow with sno-flings.

I have looked for these for several years for my own kids and never found them....until now.

You can find them here and here...

First you pack snow into them by tamping them down into good crunchy snow....

Like this......

... then you fling it ....aiming at the most annoying kid that you know! lol (that's what we did as kids)....yesterdays snow was a little too fluffy to make really good snowballs but was still fun to fling!

I noticed one thing they have added to the sno-fling now is a little squeaker that goes off every time the snowball is released from the fling....it sounds cute but I'm glad they didn't have those on the original flings in the 70's....after all, there is something to be said for the element of suprise when you're throwing a snowball at your brother.

When we were kids, our favorite thing to do was race to be the first one out onto the freshly fallen snow that hadn't been walked on yet (by the sheep, cows or horses)......and plop down backwards to make snow angels, roll BIG balls for snowmen and make little circles all over the snow with our sno-flings.

We had PLENTY of land on our farm to stay out as long as we wanted to keep looking for undisturbed snowfall.

When Mr. Honey came home yesterday about lunchtime for a few hours of sleep before going out again....Kassidy ran outside and "flung" snow at him as soon as he got out of his truck....he looked at what was in her hand (he didn't know I had bought them)....his eyes lit up and with a big grin on his face, he yelled..."SNO-FLINGS!!!!".....I love that man.