Tucson Cryogenic Snowmen
February 11, 2007
Post Tags: cryogenically-preserved-snowman , silence-of-the-lambs , Tucson-Snow , tucson-snowman
Snow isn’t something we see a lot of here in Tucson especially snow actually on the ground. Maybe we see it in the mountains surrounding the city but not down where most of us live our everyday lives. When it does happen to land on our own front yards it is a big event.
On January 22nd I wrote about the Tucson Snow and the elves making a snowman. When he slid off the car and onto the pavement they scooped him back up brought him home and used him as ammunition against your’s truly. I didn’t think anything about it until the other night when I opened the freezer side of the refrigerator and there, in our freezer, I found what was left of the snowman.
It was like a scene out of “Silence of the Lambs” or a Jeffrey Dahmer copy-cat. Here was the poor snowman (or what was left of him in our freezer).
Apparently the elves (the girls) couldn’t part with their snowman just yet, so they gathered up what was left from the snowball fight (one sided I might add) and put him back in the tupperware and in the freezer.
My elves cryogenically froze our snowman. I don’t doubt there are snowmen all across Tucson at this very moment also being cryogenically preserved in an effort to hold onto the magic of winter in Tucson.
I know for the rest of the country this seems strange, maybe even very strange. If you are in up state New York right now you have somewhere around 10 feet of snow on the ground and 2 to 4 more feet expected by Monday night.
I’m sure the last thing on anyone’s mind there is putting a bit of snow in the freezer to keep so you can remember what it was like.
This however, is part of the charm of living here in the high desert of Southwestern Arizona. Tucson is at the center of that charm.
Do any of you have snowmen cryogenically preserved in your refrigerator?
