Snow Play.

We here at the House of Rock try to live life on the precarious line between fun and stupid.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Last night into this morning, Connecticut received quite a pounding of snow. For a place that usually gets no more than few 6 inch snow storms each year, this 18 inch storm caused some inconvenience.

Quotes from the snow removal marathon:

“When snow removal is more like Minecraft and less like shoveling, you know you’ve got problems.”

Regarding the fast accumulation on the freshly shoveled driveway
“It’s like fighting a Hydra. You cut one head off, and one grows right back again”

But with snow, comes adventure. This time we decided to try sledding off the House of Rock roof. Shaun and Nick zipped down to target to try and pick up a sled. Unfortunately, sleds were $35. So they settled for a $10 twin air mattress instead.

We set up a ladder onto our roof and climbed out.

The House of Rock has a three tiered roof. Going off the garage would have been pretty much a ticket to the ER, as the driveway is far below and, at this point, very pavement-y. We debated going off the top roof, but as this was our first attempt, we felt anything higher than the first tier might be asking for trouble.

I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

We each took a couple runs. And in the photos above Shaun was only mildly hurt. I have some video that I’ll hopefully have a chance to edit and post. In general? Roof sledding was a resounding success.