Predictions of 2 feet of snow prompted Anna to ask me what's the most snow I can remember walking through and I think a few years in the early 70's created conditions close to that in Ohio where I grew up.

Today I overheard a conversation waiting in line at the post office where two older guys were talking about the Winter of 1947 when the school burned down and the snow was up to his waist when he was in the First grade.

I remember one of those Winter days in the early 70's when my Dad took a 2x4 and rolled it in the snow until it was massive. One of us decided it looked like a whale and an hour later after much sculpting and a little blue food coloring we had the only Snow Whale on the block.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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