Last Winter we had a nice married couple who came to stay in and take care of our house & mind our cat & plants for 4 weeks while we were away on vacation. They live in a tropical country (where the wife is from) & the husband (from New Jersey) was yearning for some Winter fun & sports, etc. They tobogganed, snowshoed & cross-country & downhill skied. They even did snow-shovelling & clearing our driveway with Ron’s big snow-removal machine! Kudos!
At one point they tried to make a snowman but the snow wasn’t right so they had to wait for some better snowman-building snow which finally came. Their snowman was very creative, here’s what he looked like when they first made him, before they embellished him a bit later.
Here’s what he looked like the day we arrived home, after a large snowstorm. His spikey hair, pointy head, facial expression & spindly long arms & nipped in waist really give him character! Oh, and don’t forget the hunchback which is not as visible in the pictures, but you can see the snow building up on the back of his neck.
As the Winter progressed, more snow arrived & I took an updated picture to send to its creators, who by now were golfing in the tropical heat.
By early February, he’d lost his sight & was starting to look less than happy, lol. The creators said we should throw him a rope.
In late February, he lost his sense of smell (along with a lot of other Covid-19 patients) and his right arm had fallen. Poor Snowy.
By early March, he had severe brain deterioration and fully lost the use of his left arm.
Finally, by Easter weekend, his arms were the only thing visibly left …
When I went out to take this picture, something caught my eye, something red and shiny …
in the rain, on the ground I found his heart and soul! I wrote to the creators telling them of my discovery and praising them for their cleverness! The cat decoration was made in leather & rivets.
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Then on Easter Monday as I was musing about what they had done to place these fun Christmas decorations rolled up inside of Snowy, I took another look at the ground around where he was & found this:
the final piece they had buried deep within his snowy little body.
So that’s it. No more surprises. The story of Snowy the foreign-made snowman by our 2021-22 House and cat-sitters, G&N.
Had that too 
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