{"id":8709,"date":"2026-01-30T03:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8709"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:08:26","slug":"snow-day-storytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=8709","title":{"rendered":"Snow Day Storytime"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Last weekend, our little corner of the world was subject to levels of snow probably seen often in other parts of the world, but intense for southern Virginia! I hope all you dear readers were able to stay warm and dry during the times our campus was basically closed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I know a lot of people went out to play in the snow, especially on Sunday and Monday before everything froze over. My dorm hall is littered with snow boots and various shovels and sleds, as I\u2019m sure many of your halls are as well. My roommate went on a walk on Sunday because she said she was \u201ctoo hot\u201d in our room!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I did go out a few times, but I didn\u2019t really play in the snow all that much, especially not after it started freezing over into big chunks of solid, icy material packed around the slick walkways across campus. The thing I <\/span>did<\/span><\/i> do with the snow, though, was make snow ice cream!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Before I reveal the recipe, I have to warn you that it was honestly pretty mediocre. The texture was not a typical ice cream consistency. But I believe the joy is more from making it than eating it! What I did was mix a cup of milk, half a cup of sugar, and a little vanilla and salt in a bowl, then mix it with a big mixing bowl full of CLEAN, UNTOUCHED snow. It ended up making way too much, though, and in hindsight, I probably should have made it in individual bowls rather than a big batch. Still, it was a fun little experiment, and I don\u2019t regret doing it!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Got any fun, funny, or outright outlandish snow day stories you\u2019re just dying to share? Contact me or another Brackety-Ack writer, and you too may have the chance for your harrowing account to be published! Keep staying safe out there, Maroons!<\/p>\n

<\/span>Ren Monin<\/p>\n

Staff Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Last weekend, our little corner of the world was subject to levels of snow probably seen often in other parts of the world, but intense for southern Virginia! I hope all you dear readers were able to stay warm and dry during the times our campus was basically closed. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I know…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}