Here is how to go about making a snowman:

1) Patiently await the time of a big snow fall when it is warm enough for the snow to be just right.

2) It will do no good to worry and holler about why it is not swowing. You just have too wait.

3) Don't expect someone to rent a big truck and drive off the mountains and bring back a big pile of snow for you.

4) You may have to realize that snow may just not come to this area. You can't make it snow even if you demanded it till you were blue in the face.

5) Then the time of snow finally arrives you have stop talking about making snowmen and simply put on the gloves and hat and boots and get out there and get to work.

6) Only get excited if you have success making a huge 3 ball snowman. You realize that you have to roll those balls, set them atop each other and bond them together. It will be your effort that achieves the snowman. And note it takes quite a bit of finesse to get your mom let you borrow the hat, the carrot, and the scarf that you put on to trim up the icey guy.

Michael Karas