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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: SINSULL Date: 18 Mar 01 - 01:22 PM WOW! Neat dragon! Dimensions??? A few years back, it snowed and snowed in NYC until we thought a new ice age had begun. After the first storm, a neighbor sculpted a huge beagle on the front lawn. And there it stayed for months and months guarding the door. A wonderful sight in those dreary days. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: Tig Date: 18 Mar 01 - 11:07 AM Never made Snow Dragons (rarely enough snow) but I do enjoy making Snow Bunnies. It's fun leaving them in all sorts of unexpected places like peoples doorsteps. I use a plastic jelly mould and pack it well with snow like making a sandcastle. You can even leave trails by using your finger tips and then a bun at the end. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: Naemanson Date: 18 Mar 01 - 08:16 AM Beautiful dragon! And lovely writing. It was ALMOST enough to make me wish it would snow again but I am getting tired of winter. I am ready for Spring to leap into view and spread her warmth over the land. And melt all that $@#%@@!#%@^# snow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 18 Mar 01 - 08:00 AM Wonderful pictures! We're pretty sick of snow here in southern NH- it isn't buildable any more, or walkable (no snowshoes) and it's great to see someone make a work of art out of it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: Matt_R Date: 18 Mar 01 - 01:08 AM ECU is my college, East Carolina University (Greenville, NC!) CA is Communication Arts...AKA Commercial Art. I'm submitting for a photography major. I suck at it, and get great grades in sculpture, wood design, metals, ceramics, etc. But unfortunately there's no money in it. So I either have to get better at CA or be poor. I'd rather face down old Scala the Worm himself! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: katlaughing Date: 18 Mar 01 - 01:04 AM Very KEWL, Dragon!! Thanks for the piccies! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: Jande Date: 18 Mar 01 - 01:01 AM BTW, Matt, what's CA and ECU? ~ Jande (ignorant cuss, me!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: Jande Date: 18 Mar 01 - 12:57 AM Thanks for the compliment Matt! The snow got very cold and unworkable later in the day so we weren't able to get her back built up the way we wanted, but she'll do. Glad you enjoyed the pics. ~ Jande
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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: Matt_R Date: 18 Mar 01 - 12:54 AM From memory of course! After reading The History several times, it comes naturally. Lol! Great looking snow sculpture, BTW! Every march, the sculpture department (which I wish I was part of instead of CA!) here at ECU has a snow/ice sculpture contest in the middle of March. I'm sure your dragon would make a winning entry! --Matt |
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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: Jande Date: 18 Mar 01 - 12:49 AM LOL! Matt! Did you look that up TLOTR? Or was it entirely from memory? Kat and Hes: Thanks! the pics turned out not-so-good, but I jiggered with the brightness/contrast and made 'em into grey-scale, so they are passable. We'll be taking more in the sunlight tomorrow (if ther is any!) Here they are: Snow Dragon Front View (I hope I got the blue clickies html right) Hes! Thanks for the appreciation of the writing! Coming from an excellent writer like you, I'm deeply honoured. {{{{{{hugs}}}}}} ~ Jande
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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: Matt_R Date: 18 Mar 01 - 12:00 AM Caradhras, also known as Barazinbar, Redhorn, the impassable snow-covered mountain that straddled Khazad-Dûm? And topped with Zirak-Zigil, Durin's Tower? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: hesperis Date: 17 Mar 01 - 11:39 PM PICTURES!!!!! Nice writing, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Snow Dragons From: katlaughing Date: 17 Mar 01 - 11:25 PM Pictures? Send them in! It sounds like wonderful fun and would be a blast to see them! If you look at the Mudcatters Photoloft thread in the Perathread Mudcat FAQs it will tell you where to send them. Very kewl! kat |
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Subject: Snow Dragons From: Jande Date: 17 Mar 01 - 11:21 PM We all wanted to go skiing today, so when we woke up to see the snow falling we got pretty excited, gulped down our breakfasts and then groaned. The snow had turned to rain! So we hoped for better skiing weather for tomorrow and turned to other things, fairly subdued. Lissa (11) made a new Age Of Empires Scenario for us to play later, James (aka, Malveka, or Mal for short) went to work on the 3D album cover he's making for my Slow Now CD, and I picked up my guitar and practised the songs I plan on recording this week... I guess we got pretty engrossed each in our own thing for a number of hours, because when I looked out the window again the rain had disappeared and the snow was coming down on Upstate New York like the gods were havin' a pillow fight and the feathers were flying --big fluffy white chunks of snow floating down like huge chicken feathers. I was feeling bored and a little restless by then, and that snow just started calling me, you know? So I asked who wanted to go out with me to the mailbox at the end of the drive and collect the mail. Lissa and I went out into the white world. She threw a snowball at me but missed, and I began to roll it to make it bigger, and the next thing we knew we'd started something. And then we even knew what it was going to be. The snow was warm and so easy to pack and roll into a ball, we made four huge balls and placed them equidistant from one another on the lawn just past the curve of the drive (the one we haven't been using since it started snowing in earnest. We have neither the time or inclination to shovel it out. It'll melt soon enough.), then we got the mail and consolidated our vision of what we had started to create. We dug into the snow with our gloved hands and with the snow shovel. It was heavy packing snow. Just right for the rather ambitious task we'd given ourselves. When it was half finished we ran inside and called James to help us, and since he was feeling a bit left out of the fun, he told us later, he joined us with enthusiasm, (and even brought the camera out with him). Gosh! That was fun! We took some pictures but I'm not sure how well they turned out. White on white in the dusk. I'll post them if anyone is interested. So now until the next melt-down, anyone who enters our private domain will come face to face with Caradhras, the Snow Dragon, rearing back to freeze them with her icy breath into ice-statues if they prove to be more foe than friend... Tomorrow the plan is to create a pair of clawed dragon-forelegs rearing out of the snow as if the second dragon were following the first here from some frozen netherland dimension beneath the snow. That is, if it doesn't rain... Or snow the really good skiing snow! I really wanted to share this with someone. I can't think of people who would appreciate it more than my fellow mudcatters. Anyone else got a really nice snow story to share? I'd love to hear it. ~ Jande (Seanna Rowe)
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