The time of the orc has come

OK, another Rotter, another race.  This time, slugorc!

There are two of just about every race, which has made this a pretty huge team.

There are also many extras, such as turn markers, coaches, and so on!

The Ice Age cometh

Hey, remember the good old days of global warming?  Mild winters and all that.  Yes indeed.  

Anyway, I thought you folks from more mild climates might enjoy an update.  This is what Wappelville looked like when we got back on December 29th.

Fast forward to an hour ago, when I was out shoveling.

Mission #1 was to knock the 3 foot high snow drift off of the awning without burying myself in snow.  I sort of accomplished that.  Drift mostly gone, but the wind dumped half of it on me.

Look to the East.

And to the West.

This area was once an inland tropical sea.  Then it was buried under miles of ice.  It should return to that state by Tuesday.  I will soon become like the Trilobite fossils that I used to dig up from Thornton Quarry...

Three cheers...

As the playoffs get under way in crazy fashion, it's time for some cheerleaders.

Rah rah!  Cough. Gurgle. Nurgle!

Back to the Rotters next... Ork style. :-)

He's dead, Jim

The next Rotter for the Slime Bay Packers is rather unfortunate.  Bad enough that he's dead... but now he has to be a Rotter too!  Bummer for him.

Bones and slime... does that not just reek football!!!?

More slugs on the way!!!!

Next 'man' up...

Another sluggo for you.  This time a High Elf.

It's pretty wild doing all these different races turned slime worms!

More to come!

Lizard slug!

Time for a scaley wiggler.  Hmm... that sounds wrong in some contexts.

This was a fun Rotter to paint, since it gave me the chance to do some brighter colors to contrast with the muck, uniform and pinks!

I had lots of fun putting the pink color in between the blue scales!

When Lake Michigan attacks

If you are wondering what my latest project has entailed for the last few days... this would be it.

For those in warmer climes not familiar with the concept of lake effect snow, that occurs when the cold winds from the north pass over a large body of water at a high rate.

Normally, lake effect snow hits the folks on the other side of the lake in Indiana and Michigan.  However, once in a while, those winds come from the east, and create sudden snow squalls here.

That happened today, when snowfall went from an inch in 3 hours to 2-3 inches an hour.

This is what greeted me on my third round of shoveling...

I knocked off a big drift from the roof, got out all my shovels, and went to work...

Since we live right by an airport, I could tell there were not going to be many planes in the sky.  Visibility was less than a mile... a lot less.

White was the theme of the day.

Snow always piles up fast here.

Winter wonderland.  This will all be frozen in place once the -15 temps hit.  It was already close to zero when I did my last round with the shovels.

More tomorrow I am sure, when the snowplows bury half of what I did...