Snow Buddy Knows

It snowed today! EEEE!!! Northerners have no idea what they have. Ok, maybe they do and just get too much of it, but this stuff ROCKS! I would have gone all Calvin and Hobbs on it, but there wasn't enough and I didn't want to hog all of it. It was a complete surprise. I woke up to my roommate's phone ringing, and then to her talking about snow, and I was up. Everyone else enjoyed the day off of school by sleeping, but I went off to romp and frolic. I made a little puppy dog with all the snow within about 4 feet of me, scrapped off the sidewalk. Then I set him on a bench and ran back to my dorm for a camera (not digital, so it will take me a while to get them developed) and some trail mix. I didn't have coal for eyes, so I used blue M&M's instead, and an almond nose, and a dried mango tongue. Then I set the pup - Snow Buddy - on a bench, and went on with my explorations. When I returned later, it was apparent someone had played fetch with him. His paws and ears were all dirty, and there was a stick in his mouth. Again, later, after I had warmed up, I left my dorm, and there was Buddy, sitting on a bench outside my dorm - a good 50 yards or more from where I had left him. Somebody had taken my pup for a walk, and given him a twiggy little tail, but he was definitely finished playing fetch. The stick was gone from his mouth. Some days people rock. The M&M dye had melted a bit, and he looks a little more like a blue-eyed panda cub now.