This winter we had snow drifts and banks in our yard ranging from 4-7' tall. The other day, after some significant melting, a 2-liter half-empty bottle of Diet Coke appeared (seemingly suddenly) standing upright in one of our snow banks. This was puzzling to me because we don't usually have 2-liter bottles of soda in our home. Was this littering? Some weird prank or April Fool's Day joke? My older son and husband were as puzzled as I was, but our 8th grade son was able to offer the explanation: he and a neighbor girl were doing the "Diet Coke/Mentos" experiment early in the winter for extra credit in science. He buried a partial bottle of Diet Coke in a snow bank for "later use" and then it snowed (and snowed, and snowed....) and he forgot where he put it. Apparently, it's been there all winter. So for those of you in snowy climates have you found anything interesting or surprising in your yard this "spring?" (Sadly, 4-10' of snow are forecasted for our area tonight into tomorrow.)
On another note, Mamapedia limited the length of my question in the subject matter line. This hasn't happened to me before. Is it something new?
happily we haven't had any snow for over a week, so that's all gone now. but this morning i woke up to a mousie head, butt and a few interesting innards right outside the door. i expect baby rabbits any day now.
:) khairete
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I still have about four feet of snow in my yard, so nothing has showed up yet.
I do remember throwing a big party one year when I was a teenager and my parents went away on vacation. I had made very sure that the house was in perfect order and they would never find out about the party. Then the snow melted and there were beer bottles all over the front yard.
Someone I know just found her car keys! She dropped them back in December.
One year we found a random bike in our yard. It didn't belong to any of us, and we lived up in the mountains, so it was unlikely that anyone just left it there.
We never did find out who it belonged to. Lol.
We also "found" a snowmobile that a friend had been riding, but it died on him. He decided to leave it there and come back for it the next week... But it dumped a few feet during the week and completely buried it. (We lived on a couple hundred of acres in the mountains, so while he knew the general location, he couldn't pinpoint exactly where he had left it.) So he had to wait for the snow to melt enough to find it. Lol
It still worked, too! :)
A couple years ago, my dad found my spare set of car keys in his yard once the snow melted! Lol
I remember hearing a story about people "golfing" with the still frozen dog poo that was showing up as the snow melted... they would hit it back in the yard where it belonged! They commented that they had to be careful to make sure it was still frozen solid, otherwise it would really splatter!
(That was before all the leash laws that are now so common, and many yards got several layers of dog poo from all the dogs roaming around.)
I spent a few days several weeks ago trying to determine where the sewer grate in front of our house is. I wanted to dig it out so when the big melt came it had somewhere to go. Seems like a hard thing to lose-but there was so much snow/ice I had a hard time digging it out.
In the back yard I found several of the kids long lost toys, a stainless steel bowl that I use as my fruit bowl and had been missing several months, and one of SOs shirts the dog must have nabbed out of a laundry basket and deemed his wubby.
Unfortunately this year I know I'm going to find all kinds of treasures as my lovely dog keeps taking garage and moving it around the yard before/during some of the large snowstorms. Unfortunately, we still have 3-4' still on our yard as of now and I'm just waiting for the next foot to drop...
I found our flyswatter, which usually hangs from a nail on our deck, in the yard after our 2 feet of snow finally melted (at least from part of the yard)... and in the front yard, the snow bank is finally gone, and I found my wind spinner (kind of a colorful plastic thing that hangs from a decorative 3-foot high holder) where it had blown off into the snow months ago and gotten buried... and buried... and buried. The holder was buried up to the top in the snow bank and it's actually several feet back from the road.
This year we haven't found anything - but in prior years we've found our cat's collar, firewood that we knew was back there somewhere, and the Christmas tree stand that was put out the first week of january to be cleaned off and then snowed under for months.
I found fireplace ash that hubby had dumped in the backyard and covered in snow. The ash is usually dumped in a dirt pile that's a distance from the house and covered to make sure any embers don't fly anywhere. Apparently with all the snow we got this year he decided it was too much work to dig out a path to the dirt pile. So now I've got to figure out how to clean up all this ash and move it to the correct location.
hahaha i work on this property-i did not know used condoms could make it thru such harsh conditions...
Haha, that's so funny!
I forgot to bring in some of the backyard toys before the first snow, and then it just kept snowing and snowing. Last week when it started to melt, our Toy Story ball was suddenly freed from the ice, and as we were driving home after grocery shopping it came bouncing/blowing down the street at our car. We joked that the ball missed the kids and wanted them to play with it, so it found us. What are the chances that just at that moment when we were driving our ball would be coming right at us?!
I just noticed the empty pallets that all our wood pellets were on at the beginning of the season. Also, this is sad, but one year on our daily commute home, we noticed something black emerging from a melting snowbank on the side of the road. Turned out to be a cat. It must have been hit by a car and then pushed into the bank by the plow and then buried by more snowplows and snowfalls. :(
