Woman Keeps Pet Snowball For 33 Years

KCCI.com ^ | January 12, 2010 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

Prena Thomas has the usual things in the freezer of her home in Lakeland, Fla. Vegetables, pancakes and fish, she told a Tampa television station.

But she also has a snowball that she made in 1977.

Thomas said that over the decades, she has never had a power outage that would destroy the cold hunk she says is precious to her.

"It's just like a little pet," she said.

However, she does sometimes take it out of the freezer, unwrap the bread bag that contains it and shows it to friends.

[Daffynition]

Hunk Of Ice Stays In Bread Bag

Bless her heart.

[cripplecreek]

Is she special or something?

[Rudolphus]

If that’s all it takes to make her happy, I’m happy for her.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Hunk Of Ice Stays In Bread Bag

Probably just as well. Otherwise, over time, the snowball would assimilate with the rest of the frost in the freezer and become indistinguishable.

[Hot Tabasco]

If I had been her grandson, somewhere along the line I probably would have taken it out of the freezer and thrown it at one of my buddies.......LOL!

[driftdiver]

Snow isn’t exactly a common thing down here ya know.

[kauai]

somethings just work for some people, sweet story, thanks for sharing

[A Cyrenian]

She must be a child of hope.

[gussiefinknottle]

of course, she kept her husband’s body down in the freezer
for 35 years.

[earlJam]

Mrs. Franklin Delano Romanoski?

[Puppage]

However, she does sometimes take it out of the freezer, unwrap the bread bag that contains it and shows it to friends

Are her other friends snowballs, too?

[The Great RJ]

My Mother kept some monster hailstones from a 1970 storm. I found them when I was cleaning out the home freezer when we sold the family home in 1996.

[NELSON111]

Is she special or something?

Snow is kinda rare in places and people do things like this. I did...

It was the great Christmas Snow of 2004 in SE Texas...and we got 9" of snow. My dad was in the hospital in Houston, fighting a terminal illness, and it just killed us that he couldn't watch his grandkids play in the snow. So on Christmas morning I made him a snowball...and kept it in the freezer for when he came home.

Dad passed in April of 2005...and I clung to that snowball...until Ike hit and knocked out power for a week.

Of the things I lost...I think I miss my snowball the most.

[Dixie Yooper]

I'll file this under "Come up with a story or YOUR FIRED".

I do hope the "staff reporter" gets over their writer's block.

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

[Rudolphus]

Need a bigger freezer for that one.

[posterchild]

...has the usual things in the freezer of her home in Lakeland, Fla. Vegetables, pancakes and fish...

Who keeps pancakes in their freezer??

[freedomlover]

YOUR FIRED?

[freedomlover]

Hey, if you’ve ever been to Lakeland, there’s not a whole lot more exiting than an old snowball.
(ducking ;)