i need to thank dad for going up into the attic of the barn to find the sled. boy are these sleds old, and just holding it brought back memories. back when they were new, they had handles on the sides and two of us could fit in one sled (of coarse being younger, we were smaller too). now the sled has nearly dry-rotted into shreds, but... it lasted one more winter. we had these orange sleds when i was growing up... melissa and i each had one, we'd run up to the top of the hill behind our house and get a running start (or sit and push off), jump over "kitty litter hill", then see how fast we could get between there and the barn, at which point we'd have to make a hard left or we'd crash into it... and then we would have to sink our feet into the ground or else we'd end up in the creek. that ususally wasn't a problem but i can remember one winter that it snowed and then iced which made it hard for us to plow into...
(by the way, "kitty litter hill" was the spot where we always dumped the litter boxes, back in the day of clay non-clumping litter that you didn't just scoop to clean. we'd dump it there and in time a huge mound was created... the mound became more of a linear form, and anyway it became a bump on our sled route! -this hill is still there, although smaller, and grass and trees are growing on it.)
that sled was fun to have back then, and it seemed fun to have today. i wish i could have participated in it a little more today, but someone had to stay with the baby! maybe in the morning i can have a go on her...
here is kendal's first reaction to the snow. well, its not his first reaction, but his first reaction to RIDING on the snow.
anyway, here are a few pics from today.
nathaniel and kendal walking back into the woods.
nathaniel said "boy i wish i could ride on this thing!" with aprehension on whether or not it could take the weight of a grown man (did i mention it was in near shreds?)
i said "well get on it, if it breaks we will just have to buy a new onw.
kendal can sit in your lap!"
here are the results:
unfortunately i was inside while taking these photos, holly was hungry... i did see nathaniel walk back up the hill at least 3 more times. i guess it was fun. in all they were outside for about 30 minutes. kendal's fingers and ears were still warm when he came in! yay for dad!
(ps if you didn't "get" my title, it is a quote from the movie "snow day")
aw! i remember kitty litter hill! there was one year, i was in elementary school i guess. Andrea and mark came over and we all went sledding, melissa too. we also had the red round sled that spun you around. i remember crashing into the barn so hard, backwards. i remember riding it with melissa down the big hill going parallel to the road up by the mail box. we came down that hill so hard we hit the rock ravine and bounced. that hurt. oh so much fun. i did go walking in it today but it was more like snowman snow than sledding snow. oh well. the ice will be fun tomorrow!
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The first groin pull I ever had was on these! I tried skiiing down the hill, do you remember? One foot in each sled. Then the hill banked on one side and not the other -- feet split and I tried pulling them back together -- OUCH!
ReplyDeleteI love this blog. I, too, was sentimental yesterday while playing in the snow. Not only did we not have the necessary gear to wear, we did not have anything to use for play. Gary was trying to "make" a sled, but then we were like "uh..where are we going to use it?" We had so much fun,too. Check out my pics on shutterfly
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