“He definitely holds onto winter as long as he can.”
Storm has been enamored with snow from the day his family brought him home. Every year, he gets so thrilled for winter that he spends the whole season frolicking in the snow as much as he can.
“He spends half of his day outside in the snow in the winter and refuses to come inside,” Storm’s mother, Stephanie Larson, told The Dodo. “By the time we can bring him inside, he’s usually covered with snowballs and fully soaked.” At the start of the spring season, he is always depressed… He certainly clings to winter for as long as he can.”
Storm’s parents began making a snow pile for him on the terrace every winter as soon as they noticed how much he enjoys it. That way, even if the snow on the grass started to melt, his snow adventures in the large, fluffy mound would be able to linger a little longer.
The weather in Michigan has been getting a little warmer recently. Larson understood Storm’s snow mound on the deck wouldn’t last much longer, and Storm seemed to know it as well.
“He noticed straight quickly,” Larson recalled, “since there was no longer any snow on any other portions of the deck and just a little snow to walk in on our walks.”
Since December, the snow pile has been there in some shape or another. Storm had been toying with it all winter, and now it was time to bid it go. Storm spent the entire day with the pile as it melted away. He moved around on it and cuddled up against it, a theatrical farewell to his beloved winter.
The mound eventually melted and vanished, but fortunately for Storm, it didn’t last long.
“It melted completely on the fifth, but we received snow the next Monday, so it’s back today,” Larson added.
The pile is now rather little, which is OK. Storm cherishes every time he spends in the snow and wishes he could play in it all year long. In the summer, his family sets up ice baths for him outside, but it’s not the same.
“Some [people] have requested that we migrate to a climate like Antarctica, where it is frigid all year,” Larson added.