Making the most out of winter
Giant snowman gets the neighbourhood talking
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This article was published 10/03/2015 (4074 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Do you want to build a snowman?
St. Norbert resident Wayne Casper did. The 53-year-old built an 11-foot-tall snowman in his front yard just off of Grandmont Boulevard. This is the third year Casper has been building snowmen in his yard, but never one quite so large.
“I’m not sure what happened here; he just got big all of a sudden,” he joked.
Casper said he built the snowman as a way to beat the winter blues and get outdoors.
“I always feel like I don’t do anything in the winter so I decided I’d go out and build a snowman,” he said. “I was doing it more to get some exercise.”
But the snowman has also become an attraction for the community. According to Casper, people stop by the property to check out the snowman regularly.
“I watched a truck drive by, backed up and then the windows came down, and I could see these faces sticking out the windows,” he said with a laugh.
Casper estimates the snowman took about 10 hours to construct over a three-day period. He used plywood moulds to pack the snow into and then carved out the snowman’s shape with a wood saw.
“I had so much fun building this one, so I’d like to do one for as long as I can in our front yard,” Casper said.
He’s also putting out the challenge to his neighbours to populate the block with snowmen next year.
“I’d like it to become the snowman cul-de-sac in the south end.”