Snow Yard Dinosaur!

We had a really nice snowstorm today, it's been snowing pretty heavily for about the last 15 hours and is still going. It's too warm for the snow to last, but for now we've got a good coating of nice, crunchy snow--perfect for making a snowman!

Or, since it's our house after all, a snow chicken.

Yeah, we slapped that baby RIGHT out front so the neighbors would know to have their kids walk on the other side of the street when they passed our house.  Avoid the crazy chicken people, little Johnny...Really does a terrific job of devaluing the neighborhood, doesn't it?

We used a couple of wooden bark chips from the garden for her eyes, and one of the kids' pink gloves for a comb. 

Her damned head kept falling off and her eyes falling out, every time I stuck them back on it became more and more misshapen and a first-class genetic horror show.

The kid went out and grabbed a hen for...you know...scientific comparison purposes...yeah, that's it, science.

Strychnine was unimpressed.

Right now it's snowing again, pretty hard.  Mother Nature doing a solid for the neighbors and trying to cover it up, I think. The wild birds do NOT care for it and are sitting in the trees bitching at the thing.

Oh well, it was fun.