Is there such a thing as a "perfect snowstorm?" If there is, I'd like to nominate this weekend's snow for that honor. First, there was the timing. I know that many people work on the weekend, just as I did for many years, but obviously, a snowstorm on a Saturday night will cause less problems than one during the middle of the work week. Also, this was a nice, heavy snow that made for great snowmen, snow forts and snowball fights. And finally, the amount was just about, well, perfect. Not too much, but just enough to have some winter fun.

I have to admit that I wasn't thinking this was a perfect snow as I shoveled the driveway, but again this type of snow is easy to remove. It's not too light, so you can pick up a lot with each shovel-full and the fairly mild temperatures meant that it cleaned up pretty quickly.

After that chore was done, it was on to the fun stuff. My son, Jack and I made a snowman in the backyard. The mouth was the hardest part. I wanted to use a round object that made our snow guy look like he was shocked or surprised (or maybe scared.) Jack didn't like that idea at all. I guess he wanted a traditional, less emotional snowman. So, we found one of his toys that looked like a big smiling mouth. Check out First News tomorrow morning... we'll have a picture of the Gish snowman along with other snow people made by the First News crew. Donna's is the most creative, although she sort of cheated. (There was no actual snow involved.)

Well, since I complained about winter weather recently on this blog, I figure I needed to acknowledge Mother Nature when she gave us a "perfect" January snowfall. It'll be even more perfect if it's the last snow we get for a while.