Snow Time Fun

Snow time Fun Nick Koons 5th hour It was the winter of 2008. My friend Ben and I were hanging out at his house after I had just stayed the night. It had snowed a lot since the day previous. The ground was covered with a shining, glimmering sheet of snow, with only a few blemishes from animals walking on it. Ben has a pretty big back yard so we decided to make a snow fort. Now a normal fort is only a few feet high and is just on sided, but me and Ben took a square bucket and made a snow fortress. It was about four feet high and had three sides until we closed it behind us. We used about half of the snow in the entire yard to make it but it was so worth it. We hid inside it and bombarded Bens brother Stuart with snowballs. We would have played with it longer but we had to go eat lunch. So I thought I could jump over the wall and then get the shovel to break Ben out, but this was before I could jump as high as I can now. I jumped and smacked into the wall, knocking it over and faceplanted into the snow. Ben just stood there laughing until I got up and pushed him into the pile of snow I created then we were even. When I was really little about seven years old there was one day in the winter where it snowed a ton, so me and my sisters decided to play in the snow for a while. After about an hour of playing we started to get bored so I asked my mom what we could do so we could have more fun playing outside. She gave each of us a spray bottle filled with almost boiling water in it I asked, “What are we supposed to do with this?” My mom said that we could use the hot water to melt the snow enough to be able to write and draw things into it. My sisters were not enthused with this idea. Me on the other hand was super excited. I loved to write and draw on anything I could get my hands on, but I haven't ever drawn on snow before. I spent about an hour filling our yard with drawings of people, trees, cars, and rocket ships (for a seven year old this is pretty good) I also wrote words I knew how to spell. It was a lot of fun, it also was cool because when you sprayed the boiling water onto the snow, it kinda steamed I found it amusing. A few years ago when I was ten, my family and I went to my grandmas house. Now usually when we go to my grandmas house we just sit around and talk, which was always a bore to me. But that day when we went I had a lot more fun then we usually do. My grandparents have a huge tree in there front lawn and every November it dumps tones of leaves on the ground, so my Grandma called us over so we could rake them up. Even at the age of ten I loved to rake leaves. I dont really know why I do its just a lot of fun I guess. So my sisters and I got to work. We spent about two hours raking leaves up into huge piles, and into yard bags. The only reason it took so long was because I always jumped into every pile we made and scattered the leaves around the yard. For one of the piles I jumped in I covered myself with leaves and waited for someone to try and pick some of the leaves up. My sister Eryn was the unfortunate one this time, as she tried to pick up the pile I jumped out and scared her. She followed by chasing me with a rake. I think that was the most fun I had raking leaves ever.