Author: Edward Guenther
Written: January 10th, 2014

Snow and living in the country just went well together. With plenty of land covered with snow there would always be plenty of the cold white fluff to build big, fantastic snow men, snow women, snow cats, snow teddies, and of course igloos. Scarves and hats would stay on these creations until the day they were picked up in a puddle on the green grass. And the plan was always to sleep in those igloos …

But one year it didn’t snow! NO !!!!!  Aunt Crystal convinced her dad that getting snow every year was important.  Very important. It wouldn’t be winter without their snow people! This was a very sad year.  And she had an idea.  Aunt Crystal convinced her dad to drive up to Green Peter Mountain and get a truck load of snow.  Of course! Why didn’t he think of it. A brilliant solution.

In excitement, they bundled up, piled into the truck and took off to bring in the snow that had refused to fall.   It was a fun trip as they slowly crawled higher and higher.  But her dad grew leery when they passed a sign on the logging road access which read, “Watch out for the awful hill ahead!!” 

With many big holes and layers of ice behind them, they surveyed the Awful Hill ahead.  They looked at each other and then back at the Awful Hill.   After looking and looking Aunt Crystal’s dad abandoned the idea of getting the ‘best snow’ at the top.  Aunt Crystal was down casted until her dad pointed out that they could still get the second best snow.

So they heaped up what they could and with light hearts slowly made the journey back to their house.  As her dad pondered where to deposit this wonderful treasure, Aunt Crystal took him by his hand, lead him to a spot right outside the back door opening to the deck, and with a big smile pointed and said, “There!” The only problem with this spot was that it would require wheel borrowing that white wonder around the house.  But Aunt Crystal’s cherub face won out and dad went to work.  

As Dad made trip after trip with the wheel borrow Aunt Crystal proceeded to make a masterpiece of Mr. Green Peter himself!  Complete with gloves, hat and a carrot nose, Mr. Green Peter greeted us each morning and watched us each day through the rest of that cold spell.