Alert Apple #6
Looks like 2 inches -- I need about 6 more to begin construction.
The best temperature for a snow fort is about 20 degrees. Colder than that and snow will be too powdery. Warmer and I'm soaking wet all the time.
Keep snowing, please. Another couple inches and they will declare a snow day.
It's really easy, see. You start by digging a big hole into the side of a drift or one of those piles where the snowplow dumped everything. Snowplow banks are the best, actually. Then you widen it out so you can sit in the hole and dig the tunnel.
The tunnel is pretty easy, really. But don't use a snow shovel, the blade is too wide. Use a dirt shovel. Dig a small hole all the way through the snow bank, then widen it out until you can crawl through it.
Use the snow from the tunnel to build a wall around the entrance. Use an ice cream bucket to pack the snow into bricks. If you can sneak it, use the garden hose to turn the snow bricks into ice bricks.
Oh, the hose works good for the next step too -- making ammunition. Can't have a fort without weaponry, you know? Snowballs are good but ice balls are better.
After the perimeter is secured, widen the tunnel. This part is hard. You have to crawl halfway into the tunnel and hollow the snow bank out from the inside without making the roof collapse. You gotta stuff the snow underneath your stomach until you can wiggle out and then dig it out to make room for the next try. This takes forever, but it's really cool if you can get a room big enough to sit in. Last year, I had one big enough for three people. I even had snacks in there. It was awesome.
Well, that was work on the phone, no snow day today. Adult duty calls.
But I'm only an adult when I'm inside.
The best temperature for a snow fort is about 20 degrees. Colder than that and snow will be too powdery. Warmer and I'm soaking wet all the time.
Keep snowing, please. Another couple inches and they will declare a snow day.
It's really easy, see. You start by digging a big hole into the side of a drift or one of those piles where the snowplow dumped everything. Snowplow banks are the best, actually. Then you widen it out so you can sit in the hole and dig the tunnel.
The tunnel is pretty easy, really. But don't use a snow shovel, the blade is too wide. Use a dirt shovel. Dig a small hole all the way through the snow bank, then widen it out until you can crawl through it.
Use the snow from the tunnel to build a wall around the entrance. Use an ice cream bucket to pack the snow into bricks. If you can sneak it, use the garden hose to turn the snow bricks into ice bricks.
Oh, the hose works good for the next step too -- making ammunition. Can't have a fort without weaponry, you know? Snowballs are good but ice balls are better.
After the perimeter is secured, widen the tunnel. This part is hard. You have to crawl halfway into the tunnel and hollow the snow bank out from the inside without making the roof collapse. You gotta stuff the snow underneath your stomach until you can wiggle out and then dig it out to make room for the next try. This takes forever, but it's really cool if you can get a room big enough to sit in. Last year, I had one big enough for three people. I even had snacks in there. It was awesome.
Well, that was work on the phone, no snow day today. Adult duty calls.
But I'm only an adult when I'm inside.
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