Snow Dogs

It was a snow filled day and school was closed. After the initial excitement wore off best friends, Tanith Vroman and Benita Kelly were bored. Neither of them could think of anything exciting to do so they just lay on Tanith's plush pink carpet starring up at the ceiling.

After one or the other had suggested a handful of possible things to do and each had soundly been rejected, Tanith suddenly bolted up to a sitting position. "I know!" she exclaimed excitedly as though she had discovered the secret to world peace. "Let's make snow dogs!"

"Snow dogs?" replied Benita as if it were the craziest thing she had ever heard. 'What in the world is a snow dog.' she wondered but out loud she just said "Huh?"

"You know, dogs made out of snow." replied Tanith as though it should have been obvious.

"Is that even possible?" asked Benita doubtfully.

Tanith shrugged. "We won't know until we try."

"Okay." agreed Benita. She still wasn't sure it was going to work, but it was better than doing nothing.

They bundled up in their heavy winters coats, boots, scarves and gloves and headed out Tanith's front door. They gathered up piles of snow and tried to mold it into the shape of a dog, but it just kept  falling apart.

"I don't think this is going to work." Benita announced finally. "Let's go inside." She tried to usher Tanith back into the house, but Tanith resisted.

"No. Let's just try a little bit more." begged Tanith. Benita agreed but not happily. She was getting really cold.

Finally, just before they were ready to give up Tanith managed to get two small piles of snow to stay together. "There!" she exclaimed excitedly showing them to Benita.

"Okay." said Benita, but she didn't share Tanith's enthusiasm. They didn't look like snow dogs to her. They just looks like lumps of snow. "Now, what are we going to do?"

"Let's take them in the house." said Tanith.

"In the house?" asked Benita, "but they'll melt." she reminded her friend.

"We are going to paint them, and then we'll put them in the freezer.

Paint them? This whole thing was just getting crazier and crazier to Benita, but still she went along with it. Tanith was always coming up with crazy ideas and very often they turned out to be a whole lot of fun. However, this whole snow dog think might have been the craziest idea Tanith ever had.

They took the snow dogs into the house and brought them into the playroom. Tanith searched around for some paint but all she could find was her brother's red and yellow fingerpaint. "This will have to do." she announced. Benita just shook her head.

They sat down at the table, and spent the next twenty minutes trying to get the finger paint to adhere to the snow, but it just wouldn't stick. It did, however get all over the table, the chairs and the two girls.

"Maybe, you should have asked your mother if we could make snow dogs before we started." Benita suggested looking around at the mess. She didn't want to get in trouble.

"Mom!" called Tanith. "Can we make snow dogs?"

"No!" her mother answered decisively.

"Too late." replied Tanith.