Snow Suit??
Oh, yeah - every year! 
I started out in Orlando, Florida - remember Dad had a sail boat ...
He went in the Army - Mom & I went to Cleveland ... and I got a Snow Suit.
Dad came home - and got a job with J&L Steel as an Iron Ore Mining Engineer at
Star Lake, New York - where Winters were WINTER!
We lived in a "company house" - with a coal furnace at the circle end of a long,
gravel road - 100 feet behind the house was wilderness.
When it "snowed" at the Mine - it REALLY *SNOWED* at the house!
More than once we opened, and quickly closed, the first floor doors ...
then went UPstairs and left the house via a second floor WINDOW!
Then we'd shovel our way down to the back door.
New York Snow Suits were built for business ... thick and zippers everywhere!
And the "inner layers" ... flannel-lined pants, couple shirts, socks ...
and ALWAYS the "GO to the bathroom BEFORE I dress you!" reminder.
And i had all the "accessories", too! ...
* 5-buckle rubber boots (like Dad wore)
* the dorky hat with the Ear Flaps that tied together under your chin
* that darn ITCHY Scarf (I'd ditch that as soon as I got out of Mom's sight)
* and the wool MITTENS - with the STRING tying them together that ran
up one sleeve, across your back, and down the other sleeve ...
I managed to loose one of those Mitten Rigs once ... mittens had come off and my
hands were getting numb ... one mitten snagged on a bush and I didn't notice ...
kept goin ...
and pulled the other mitten UP one sleeve, across my back ...
down and out the other sleeve ...
Mom went BALLISTIC!!
"HOW did you manage to loose BOTH of them!??"
Not to worry - we found em hangin on the bush a few weeks later when the snow melted.
/s/ Cinder, Smokey & Heidi
R.I.P. ~ Boots, Bowser, Sherman, & Snoopy
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