Building an Igloo
It's intensely bright and sunny out today, but still very very cold, around 20. This reminds me of winters growing up, and in particular of a winter when it was cold enough and 
snowy enough that we built in igloo in our back yard. This was in Shark River Hills, and I think we did it with the Swingles, Donnabeth and Buzzie (Jono was too young). But it was in our back yard and it was bright and sunny and we actually cut blocks of frozen snow with a handsaw and constructed the igloo as we imagined Eskimos did. And it was perfectly symmetrical and stable, and the only thing not perfect was that it was way too cold to actually sit inside it, out of the sunshine. Plus it turned out that sitting inside an igloo wasn't all that much fun, not nearly as much fun as erecting it and pretending we were Eskimos. I think Donnabeth and I rubbed noses. So we built a perfect igloo but never sat in it. It lasted long after the other winter snow had melted, because it was so compact, so we had the remnants of an Arctic igloo in our back yard into the spring. This was probably the winter of '58, I am guessing.
snowy enough that we built in igloo in our back yard. This was in Shark River Hills, and I think we did it with the Swingles, Donnabeth and Buzzie (Jono was too young). But it was in our back yard and it was bright and sunny and we actually cut blocks of frozen snow with a handsaw and constructed the igloo as we imagined Eskimos did. And it was perfectly symmetrical and stable, and the only thing not perfect was that it was way too cold to actually sit inside it, out of the sunshine. Plus it turned out that sitting inside an igloo wasn't all that much fun, not nearly as much fun as erecting it and pretending we were Eskimos. I think Donnabeth and I rubbed noses. So we built a perfect igloo but never sat in it. It lasted long after the other winter snow had melted, because it was so compact, so we had the remnants of an Arctic igloo in our back yard into the spring. This was probably the winter of '58, I am guessing.
posted by Wray Herbert | 9:20 AM
2 Comments:
We never went so far as to build a real igloo... but Ethan and I used to build a mock igloo using the picnic table in our yard and packing the snow around it, but leaving a door. There's a cute picture of Ethan and Kelly in it one year.
I don't remember the igloo, but I do remember playing in the snow a lot and sledding on the golf course. I clearly remember many snow forts constructed by Megan and Ethan as well as many snow scultures. Wray, I thought igloos were supposed to be warm. Maybe you need a fire and animal furs to be comfy in an igloo.
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