Sword Practice in the Snow

[abracanabra]

Sword Practice in the Snow 1, originally uploaded by aswiebe.

The other day (you can tell it's the other day, not today, because there's only a little snow on the ground), I went out back to practice my swordwork. In Minnesota. In winter. While it was snowing. There I was, practicing while wearing snow boots and gloves. The exercise kept the rest of me warm enough that I didn't need a coat. It was both entertaining and awesome-feeling, though I mostly looked ridiculous*.

Then the UPS guy walked around the side of the house. I took the package, we exchanged pleasantries, and he walked off wearing the hugest grin. They usually leave packages in the front porch; he must have heard me and gotten curious enough to come around the side of the house to see what was going on.

Eventually, I managed to stop laughing and get back to practice.

Then my neighbor came home. We exchanged greetings, and he went inside...wearing the hugest grin.

I'm guessing that was one of the more entertaining random things that happened to them that day.

* I have no knack for self-photography. I did, however, discover the continuous shooting mode on my camera.

Comments

*huge grin*

[blake-reitz.livejournal.com]

Why? Because it is awesome.

[joeboo-k.livejournal.com]

That is so many kinds of awesome I'm not sure what to say.

[fayde.livejournal.com]

Keep praticing until you look fierce and unstoppable and you send people away looking worried....

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Reading this was so much fun. You've put a smile on my face. :)

[discoflamingo.livejournal.com]

This is pretty sweet, but I have to ask - which neighbor?

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

The guy who lives in the short yellow house, to our house's right if you're facing it.

[cutefuzzysatan.livejournal.com]

Sword form in the snow? Sounds cool to me (and not just in the literal sense).

Of course, better with the TSD form. HRD form has a shoulder roll. Brrrr....

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

That's the plan! ;)

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was bad enough having to go to my knee in the snow. Now that there's what seems like a foot of snow out in my backyard, I'm not sure I'm going to be trying this again any time soon.

Well. I might, just from curiosity, but with no real expectation of succeeding.