Winter Chores and Fun with Food

Way back in January, we had a beautiful Sunday afternoon at Paul's house.

Paul and I took advantage of the sunshine, re-purposed some Christmas trees, and worked on mulching around the blueberry bushes with pine boughs. As typical with this winter, the next Friday was a snow day! Mom and I donned our snow pants, coats, hats and mittens and headed for the hill in front of our house. We had several good runs;

we shoveled some snow; and then it was time to make a snowman. This snow was not the best snowman building snow. It kept breaking apart so we redesigned our approach and made a snow woman blob.

We utilized some of our CSA share to  give her some facial features: corn stalks for hair; a parsnip for her nose; a strip of banana peel for her mouth (okay. so that's not grown locally. but it worked in a pinch); some sticks for her arms; a couple of beet slices for eyes; and a big dude smile. You can't beet, er um, beat that!