Incoming snowballs

When I was child, January 1 was the one time of year I could stay up late without grownups reprimanding me. They were nice to us all day. Especially if we stayed outdoors.

And we did. We ice skated and built massive snow forts and pelted each other with snowballs.

One year, we built the world's greatest snow fort, complete with three tunnels and windows you could poke your head through just in time to be plastered by a snowball. The fort was so big I think it caused an eclipse over all of Saskatchewan.

Recently, a fellow Canadian eclipsed our fortress. Clint Masse and 12 fulltime workers took...