All you really is two lumps for eyes on your snowman. (And two eyes made out of coal) ok, and some snow.

 

We tend to stack up large tumbleweeds out here as snow is a rare item...

Thomas- We always enjoy the tumbleweed snowmen when we are in Albuquerque visiting the relatives.

Found in my stocking a few years ago....I felt the love:

5 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

We tend to stack up large tumbleweeds out here as snow is a rare item...

Can't say that I've ever seen one in real life, but I do live in Nebraska, so....

Passed a 5' diameter tumbleweed caught in a fence the other day would make a good start...I just don't want to scatter it's seeds in *my* yard!

Yep Thomas, had a few green mumbling mumbleweeds on a small strip by the road - the biggest one weighed 30#. Stuffed a two cubic yard dumpster lickity-split.

Best admired in "someone else's yard", you bet.

NO Honey NO!!! Don't You Eat That Yellow Coal!!!!!!

Actually my Father was one a Manufacturing Engineering Professor down here and as a class project they were once tasked with how to deal with tumbleweeds along the highways. The current methodology was to have folks pitch fork them into dump trucks and then drive them to a dump.  Very inefficient  as loading a truck "full" could be done in 5 minutes and then an hour drive to the dump and another back.  They came up with basically a hammer mill that ran off the dumptruck's hydraulics. Now you could pitchfork tumbleweeds into the feeder all day an only need to make at most 2 trips to the dump... with *full* loads!

Yup Thomas, that's the trick - neat that your father had his hand in the stickers, if you will.

Almost would have to have a very long handle on that fork with a small counterweight to pitch those mumbleweeds all day .

 

He had an interesting career, AT&T Bell Labs, NASA, AT&T joint venture in Europe,  Cellular Systems, and then the Manufacturing Engineering Prof when he retired.  Not a "theoretical Prof"  he came at it after working in and then managing factories all over the world.

I don't understand why the hatred of tumbleweeds.  They get to live a casual life in quiet contemplation and then end it by roaming the world in the wind spreading their seed at the end of their lives.  Isn't that how most of us wish we could have done it?

 

Oh Lou, it is hard to go against the grain of your waxing.

I must have been bad last year Santa showed Me My coal AFTER He burnt it up. Yep ashes.

I would rather have clinkers and ashes than that awful nasty coal <wink>.