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Video of The Blizzard of 66 in Syracuse New York

Posted by The Snowman on November 7, 2013
Posted in: golden snowball contest, New York Snow Storms. Tagged: , , , .

Here is an old family video of the blizzard of 66, 1966 that is taken in Syracuse, New York to help those of you who are patiently waiting for snow 😉 I was just a little kid, the little one in the brown jacket but I do remember some of this blizzard. Mostly having a lot of fun being able to walk over neighborhood fences and sliding down our garage roof.

Of course I also remember crying like a little sissy boy throughout the day for the fact that the snow drifts from the blizzard of 66 were way higher than me and I would sink into the snow and not be able to see anything. I did let out some yells to make sure I was found each time though 😉 Luckily there were 5 of us kids and then some neighborhood kids around so it wouldn’t take too long to get saved from being buried or lost 🙂

Check out my Dad shoveling the snow in the driveway from the blizzard of 66 in Syracuse. The snow drifts were over his head too and I bet he had a blast trying to keep an eye on us as he shoveled what I am sure felt like an endless amount of snow from the driveway.

Anyways, just a little tease of what’s ahead of us 😉 No snow to report yet for Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Binghamton or Albany yet other than a trace of snow. Who is going to start off the snow contest this season?

 

Have a Great Day All 😉

Professor Pat Says Thanks for The Links to Our Snow Contest

Posted by The Snowman on October 28, 2013
Posted in: golden snowball contest. Tagged: , , , .

I was just looking around and checking some stats and so on for the Golden Snowball website here as I am getting ready for the new snow season and I cam across a link to our site from the CNY Central weather section here in Syracuse that I thought was pretty cool 🙂 Most of the local news stations and websites have always been great about plugging the snow contest. No doubt Sean Kirst, who gave me the nickname The Oracle of the Golden Snowball contest, and www.syracuse.com made the snow contest as big as it is today along with a bunch of others including sites from Buffalo and Rochester like The Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester and Buffalo News. There have also been some links from national websites and lots of smaller but cool blogs and so on. Thanks to all of you 😉

But when I looked at the link on the CNY Central site I thought about a lot of my family and friends. I come from a family who has quite a few teachers in it along with a lot of friends that are also teachers. So when I saw the category that our site was listed under I kind of smiled 😉

If you look toward the bottom of their webpage you will see some links that go to other sites under different categories. I love what the Category that my website is listed under on their site and when you see it you will catch my drift as to what I am talking about 😉

http://www.cnycentral.com/weather/

Just call me Professor from here on please, and thank you very much to CNY Central and to all of the sites that have sent visitors here over the years 🙂

Hmmm, Professor Oracle maybe???

Have an awesome day all and don’t expect any improvement in my spelling and grammar in the near future Professor or not 🙂

National Snow Contest Has Started Nothing Here Yet

Posted by The Snowman on October 24, 2013
Posted in: golden snow globe, golden snowball contest. Tagged: , , .

Nothing measurable to report yet for the Golden Snowball cities but that could change anytime now. Just a trace of snow for Syracuse and Binghamton being reported so far. I did hear about some white stuff falling around Binghamton so we will see if that gets reported in the update later today/this evening.

My daughter is in town from the Carolina’s and I just took my Grandson for a nice brisk walk. Gotta show him where his roots are from. I think I was colder than he was and he handled it like a trooper from the North 😉

The national snow contest has started and it’s all Colorado. I just did an update on th National Snowiest City site yesterday. You can check that out at Goldensnowglobe . com.

Have a Great Day All 😉

Site May Be Down for a Few Days

Posted by The Snowman on October 16, 2013
Posted in: golden snowball contest. Tagged: , .

Ignore the below post. We should be good for now. The site was down for a couple of days but I was able to get it back up and running. Won’t be long before we start up the 2013 – 2014 snow contest 😉

Click Here to Make a Donation – It will take you to our PayPal account where you can enter any amount to donate and Thanks, It Really Helps 🙂

Or, just Feel free to hit that donate button to help offset some of the costs of hosting and keeping the snow sites up and running. Every little bit helps out 😉 ***

Just a heads up that both the Golden Snowball site and The Golden Snow Globe site may be out of commission for several days. I’ll get both of them back up as soon as possible. I’m in the process of moving and have had to prioritize some expenses. They shouldn’t be down for too long and I don’t think we will see any snow in the near future although it feels like it is ready to snow out right now. BRRRRR!

Have an Awesome Week All 🙂

New Christmas Inflatables Airblown Yard Blowups 2013

Posted by The Snowman on September 23, 2013
Posted in: Christmas, Shopping. Tagged: , , , , , , .

There are a lot of Christmas inflatables already out believe it or not. Or should I say like it or not. I was just updating one of my outdoor yard inflatables sites and there are quite a few cool Christmas blowups out this season. Some of the holiday blowups include the usual motorcycle and chopper inflatable blowups for your yard. I think some of the best selling ones including Gemmy Christmas Inflatables will be the giant 12 foot snowman inflatable from Walmart and the 8 foot holiday inflatable with Santa flying an airplane. Even though it is early in the season keep in mind that the best Christmas and Halloween airblown inflatables do sell out fast and this early. Below are a few we like or just click the link below to visit our Halloween and Christmas inflatable blow ups site to browse through over a hundred of the holiday blowups while they last.

IMPORTANT – We also have coupons and codes for most of the stores so just click on the Halloween inflatable or Christmas inflatables that you like and it should give you the coupon code for that merchant. Then just click on the inflatable product to visit the store and add the coupon at checkout. If you end up purchasing a Walmart Christmas inflatables don’t forget they have free shipping from their site to a store near you.

Click Here for All the New Airblown Christmas Inflatables and Yard Blowups

One of our favorites is the giant 12 foot giant Snowman family inflatables. Sometimes bigger is better 😉 and with this giant Christmas inflatable for your yard the neighbors will be noticing when they go outdoors.

Giant 12 Foot Snowman Christmas Inflatable

Big outdoor Walmart Christmas inflatables for 2013

New Giant Walmart Christmas Inflatables and Holiday Blowups

Click Here for All Walmart Christmas Inflatables and Yard Blowups
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Another cute holiday inflatable for Christmas is one that has Santa on a sleigh with two penguins. This one is at Spirit Halloween and don’t forget to use the coupon code we have on our site to save 20% on any one item including Christmas blowups for your yard.

Santa Claus and Penguins on a Sled Christmas Inflatables

Christmas inflatables and yard blowups for 2013

Santa and 2 Penguins on a sled Christmas Inflatable

Click Here for the Santa and Penguins on a Sled Christmas Blowups

I think this is the first time I have seen an inflatable Christmas archway. There are a lot of Halloween archway blowups out there but this is pretty cool. It’s a Christmas inflatable archway for outdoor decorations and will look awesome going into your doorway for the holidays. This holiday inflatable blowup has Santa and his elves on a candy cane stripes airblown archway that is around 9 foot tall and says Merry Christmas. This we guarantee will sell out fast so don’t wait too long. All of the cool Christmas and Halloween inflatables go fast.

Walmart Inflatables Christmas Airblown Archway for Your Yard

Cool Christmas Inflatable archways at Walmart

Christmas Inflatable Archways at Walmart

Click Here for Santa and Merry Christmas Inflatable Archway at Walmart
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It won’t be long before the snow starts falling and we start adding up the inches. In the mean time I’m just trying to get a few posts up that hopefully will make it easier for you to buy you Halloween and Christmas inflatables and yard blowups. Enjoy All 🙂

New Airblown Halloween Inflatable Blowups for 2013

Posted by The Snowman on August 12, 2013
Posted in: Halloween, Shopping. Tagged: , , , , , .

I’ve been updating my Halloween inflatables and yard blowups sites the last week or so and noticed there seems to be more new ones for 2013 than a normal season.  I know it’s too early to start thinking about Halloween but it takes me awhile to update the sites plus the smart shoppers buy their Gemmy Halloween blowups early.  The reason is because the good ones always sell out fast and normally there is a limited supply of all of the styles of airblown yard blowups.

Anyways this year there are some pretty cool Halloween inflatable blowups for the 2013 season.  Some of the products I added to my site are the new airblown neon Halloween inflatables which both Walmart and Spirit Halloween carry online.  My guess is that these airblown inflatables for the yard will most likely be the best sellers this season and will be the first to sell out.  Right now there are only a few different neon inflatables but we will add more as we get them from the merchants.  Below is an example of the neon Halloween blow ups.

New 2013 Neon Inflatable Halloween Blowups

 Click Here for the Neon Halloween Yard Blowups

You can compare prices but make sure you also consider the coupons we have on the site when doing so.  Like right now the Sprit Halloween coupon I think is for 20% off any one item in your shopping cart.  On the other hand Walmart always has free site to store shipping on their Halloween inflatable products so make sure you weigh out which one is the best deal.

A few of the other cool inflatables for Halloween are the rat in the trap and the animated Halloween stage coach.

Rat in the Trap Inflatable 

Rat in Trap Animated Airblown Inflatable

 The Haunted Halloween Skeleton Stage Coach Blowup

Scary Haunted Stage Coach Halloween Inflatables

Use Code 20OFF2013 – Get 20% off 1 Item
Skeleton Stagecoach Airblown Inflatable

If you’re looking for some cool airblown Gemmy Halloween archways for your yard we have a few of them too.  These are great decorations for your yard and look great if you can put them right in front of the door for the kids to go under.  Our personal favorite this season is the scary cat inflatable archway which Is below.  Just click on it to check out a few of them!

Scary Black Cat Inflatable Archway Blowups 

There are quite a few new Halloween blowups this season and as we get them we will add them to our site at www.halloweenblowups.com .  One thing to keep in mind is like we mentioned, the good Halloween yard decorations sell out fast.  Some of them do however come back in stock as the season gets closer but not always.  Most of the Walmart inflatables for Halloween and Christmas that that walmart carries are only available online.  The same goes for the Spirit Halloween blowups.  You can check out all of the new airblown Halloween and Christmas Inflatable Blowups for 2013 below.

Click Here for All the New 2013 Airblown Halloween Inflatable Blowups

Yes, just another shameless plug while we wait for the snow season for Halloween from the Golden Snowman.  Hey, it helps pay the websites bills so what can we say other than have a great day 🙂