Hey, we pay good money to make it artificially around here so the kids can at least get an idea what it IS.

We also have a natural snow-producing environment in easy reach--about thirty miles over and two miles up in the Cuyamaca mountains, where the pine forests flourish and snow lies ont he ground for at least a month or two every year.

They take children up there to go sledding--a rare treat.

The trick with snow is teaching it its place. If you aren't firm with it, it tries to get everywhere. We keep ours up in the hills and it knows better than to try to escape.


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