Jan 10th, 2015: MN Testudine

[xoxoxoBruce]

Pity poor Mrs Bartz in New Brighton, Minnesota. Severe polar vortex on top of normally brutal Minnesota winter, AND three boys in the house.
What's a mother to do?
A smart mother throws the boys out for at least a few sanity preserving hours a day, and it appears Mrs Bartz is one smart mother.

So Austin, Connor, and Trevor, find they have to amuse themselves outside and what better way than terrorize the neighbors.
Not wanting to incur too much wrath, they settle on building a giant snow Testudine. In this case a twelve foot high Sea Turtle.



Now these three neighborhood terrorizers are not just good old boys temporarily misguided by vortexing winter.
No they're not some first time offenders, they have three "priors" as we say down at the station.

Here's the evidence.



Now I don't want to sound petty, or like I'm jealous just because their stuff puts any of my attempts at snow sculpting to embarrassing shame.
But I think the blowfish, their first endeavor, is the most impressive probably because of all the spikes.
The second offence, the walrus, is also very cool. I think it's a tie with last year's shark.
However I think the turtle is weak compared to previous years, looks to me like they phoned it in.
Possibly they've trapped themselves into having to produce something yearly. You know, community expectations, family honor, big busted groupies, but last year's pictures clearly them jumping the shark.



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