Many residents of the northern and eastern parts of the United States, who have experienced a seemingly endless and frigid winter, have expressed disgust at Mother Nature. According to a recent article in USA Today, a Minnesota farmer named Greg Novak along, with his family and friends, built a huge 50 foot high snowman “…as a way of taking the remnants of winter’s doldrums and making something that gives people joy.” The snowman, which they named Granddaddy, is so huge that a 55 gallon drum was used for its nose. Granddaddy turned out to be such a novelty that the story was picked up by a number of television stations and visitors came from as far away as Virginia and North Carolina to see him. As Mr. Novak said of his snowman “It puts a smile on people’s faces….When you make people smile, you know you’ve done a good thing.” This is a wonderful example of making something good out of a bad situation.