It’s turned into a tradition, one of many, started by my beautiful wife. It seems that you only get one or maybe two opportunities each year to make snowmen. The temperatures have to be just right, to create packy snow.

Well this year we rolled our snowmen, under the tutelage of my wife, ideas bouncing around in her head. Over the years, we have gotten a system down, she starts rolling the snowballs, soon realizes its way to big and heavy to move any further and then tells me to lift it into place. I then chop it in half, move it to it’s final location, and begin the smoothing out process.

This year while Mrs. HamFam decorated the “Hawaiian snowman” and the “legs in the air” snowman, I thought, “I’ve got an idea.”

So I rolled up another snowman; grabbed a recent Christmas present ( a sweet WGA ammo can) from my geocaching buds Kthyrion and TheMotherInLaw. Added what is known in some circles as the “world’s greatest walking stick”, my back-up geocaching tool pouch, a.k.a. a fannie-pack, and some of my “stealth gear”.

To another year of caching…cache on my friends.