Talking Snowman

Again we lived in Butte up on the hill by the School of Mines. Butte got a lot of snow and we were a little bored. There was a little girl who lived up a few houses from us named Annie (about 6 years old). We decided it would be funny to build a snowman around John and have him talk to Annie. We built the snowman, gave the the traditional nose, eyes, hat, scarf, etc. One of the boys went to get Annie. She came into the yard and was messing around, when the snowman spoke to her by name. She froze - the snowman spoke again and she ran. We laughed and laughed. We knew John had to be freezing by then, so we got him out by knocking down the snowman. In a couple of minutes Annie returned with her dad. The first thing he said was, "What are you Mabbott kids up to now?" We just continued to laugh. What fun!