Snowpeople used to populate several yards in every neighborhood accompanied by snow forts and snowballs whizzing through the air.
Snowpeople used to populate several yards in every neighborhood accompanied by snow forts and snowballs whizzing through the air.
Kids would glide down hills and driveways on sleds and saucers until their lips turned blue and their snowsuits were soaked.
With nearly two feet of the frozen stuff coating Geauga County, one might expect to see children making snow angles and caves in the mounds along every driveway. But alas, that tradition seems to have melted away quite a bit.
However, some adults recently chose to revisit their youth and maybe drag their teens along with them.
The Kessler and Douglass families were found celebrating the first day of February in Kesslers’ front yard on Bass Lake Road, building three bigger-than-life snowpeople late in the day.
With a little bit of daylight left and a large shovel, the four adults and two teens created a family of three smiling snowpeople complete with button eyes, scarves and hats.
“We had so much fun,” said Barb Kessler, adding she had built a smaller snowman herself, but when their friends from Chardon, Mike and Molly Douglass and their sons, Mack, 16, and Mason, 19, arrived, she convinced them and her husband, Bill, to join in.
The snow was at its peak condition for the project, she said.
“I wanted to build a snowman with my family,” she said.
They started about 4:30 p.m. and finished just before dark.
They all wanted a picture to commemorate the fun, so Mack built a mound of snow and positioned a phone on it, set the timer and everyone posed, Kessler said.
“They made their own selfie-stick,” she laughed.
Prominent in the picture is the Yeti cooler with beer cans on top, but she noted there was no underage drinking that winter day.
“There’s a Dr. Pepper behind one of the Miller Lights,” Kessler said.
