Oh, that's interesting, Pleater, you carve them. We always built snow creatures by packing on pieces of snow to a core. If we needed a really big ball, we rolled a smaller snowball around the yard and house, packing it now and then, to grow it to the right size.

That's a cute idea, , a snow-bear.

We also used to play with the giant icicles that formed off the edges of the roofs.