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.

[tiki]

I think I have a small jar of hail stones from a 60 second storm that ruined our crops in 2007.

When I was a kid it snowed one year and we wrapped a snowball up with rags and buried it and it was still there a month later.

[kauai]

ooooh, one mans trash is another mans treasure.

[KarlInOhio]

Woman Keeps Pet Snowball For 33 Years

You can call it a pet, but they have never been successfully domesticated. Show it any weakness at all and the captive snowball will turn on you in a second.

[Lockbar]

She could put on ebay. Or pour some fruit juice on it and call it the world’s oldest sno-cone.

[Happyinmygarden]

Dear Lord,

In my next life (if there is such a thing) please let me come back to a life so void of duty, work or responsibilities that I can focus on keeping a snowball for 33 years.

Amen

[IYAS9YAS]

Who keeps pancakes in their freezer??

We do. Sunday is pancake day for us. We make enough that the kids can have some during the week before school. Just pop 'em in the toaster just like Eggos (but these have ingredients I can pronounce).

[posterchild]

Hmmm. They don’t defrost into a mushy mass?

[Daffynition]

What a beautiful, moving story!

[dfwgator]

“I’m going to get you Junior Barnes, you gunky!”

[JoeProBono]

[Vision]

Cue Eric the Clown...”You’re living in the past, man!”

[xone]

How many cats does she have?

[I Buried My Guns]

Re: frozen pancakes:

I had never heard of that either. I would think they would come out kinda tough from the freezing/thawing process.

But you say it works, so now I gotta try it.

[Daffynition]

[IYAS9YAS]

Hmmm. They don’t defrost into a mushy mass?

Nope. Freeze what you don't eat (let them cool first). Take directly out of the freezer and pop them into the toaster - toast to desired doneness.

[IYAS9YAS]

The trick is to take them from the freezer and pop them directly into the toaster. No defrost/thaw period.

[Sopater]

Reminds me of a poem...

SNOWBALL

by Shel Silverstein

I made myself a snowball
As perfect as could be.
I thought I'd keep it as a pet
And let it sleep with me.


I made it some pajamas
And a pillow for its head.
Then last night it ran away,
But first- it wet the bed

[Daffynition]

If this global warming continues, we're all going to be icicles & snowballs.

[Daffynition]

Thank you for being my FRiend.

[copaliscrossing]

“I’m going to get you Junior Barnes, you gunky!”

OMG, you just beat me to the perfect punch line!! JUNIOR BARNES, OH JUNIOR BARNES.....I'm gonna' get you Junior Barnes.....

JULY....LOL!!! Memories.