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 NinthMusketeer wrote:
At least you have rain...

It's summer here. The rain is to put out the burning spider hordes.

@chromedog: Can't go wrong with burning spider hordes!

Ho-ho-ho. What time of the year is it? It's snow shovelling season up here in the frigid north! And ski time.

Shovelling snow around houses and cars for neighbours and family has meant plenty of chances to sculpt quick and shoddy things in snow. King Bore (the proverbial winter god) has brought us a bountiful harvest of frozen water from on high:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
We don't get snow here in SD, but I imagine you all will understand when I describe how horrid the Christmas weather is today! It's absolutely frigid at sixteen degrees AND it's pouring rain; we've gotten 0.08 cm of rainfall already! Truly, I'm sure you all have better weather.

Ah, global warming.

I remember the April Fools Day blizzard in Rapid City from the mid-seventies. We had drifts that went up onto the roof of the school, and we rode our sleds down them...

Wow, really good work. I sense a theme in your designs. LOL.

We barely have any show, and it is -20 F with a "feels like" temp around -50 F.

Sadly, no sculpting snow in these conditions. darn Polar Vortex!

@Vulcan: Drifts up to the roof? Wow!

@Easy E: Thank you! Dwarf-dwarf-dwarf.

Finally we had enough snow to make one sculpture. The snow was hopelessly wet, warm and thawed. That made it stick to gloves and spades, causing it to come off in lumps. With such crude matter the outcome will be crude. But at least it's a Dwarf: