I could just end the post there, but I have to give a meteorological rundown. Then for the fun stuff.
Location: Fairfax, Virginia
Duration: 1800 1st Mar 2009 - 1000 2 Mar 2009
Accumulation: 15 cm
Temperature: 2 to -6 degrees Celsius
Quality: Moderately fluffy. Not powdery enough for sledding, not sticky enough for *cough cough* sculpting. Damn.
So, I had decided ahead of time that if enough snow accumulated, I would make a representation of none other than Cato the Younger of Utica. Brief description: Cato was a Roman statesman and republican who fought against Caesar in the civil war and committed suicide rather than submitting to Caesar's rule.
Good thing he killed himself too, because unfortunately, the snow was just not wet enough for me to do the living version of him justice (or maybe I was just not patient enough). First, his sword-bearing arm fell off, then his right leg came off, and finally his whole body detached from the ground. So I simply lay him in his dead pose and proceeded to stab him with a fruit knife and write in pomegranate and blackberry juice the French and Latin words that read:
CATO OF UTICA
LIVE FREE OR DIE
Sorry, old fella. Well, I wasn't about to make you a slave to my sculpting skills.
My only implement for writing the letters was a teaspoon.
Since his features were so indistinct, I annotated him.
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