Well, it has been an interesting winter. One kids will be lusting after for years to come. Snow was on the ground for nearly a week. Meaningful snow. Great sledding snow. A firmly packed base, with a hard crust that is really fast. Good for getting out the sled and waxing up the runners. Oh, wait, the kids around here are used to catch as you can snow that disappears within a day or two, so they only have plastic saucers. Not good sleds with runners. But really, this is the kind of snow I remember from winters further north where my dad would get on the sled with us kids and stear down hill. And we'd put the straps on the dog so he could play sled dog and pull it back up the hill for us. Good times.
Of course, with all the ice up top, it has been trecherous to walk on and a huge pain to shovel. First you have to break the ice, then move it. Grr. And to add insult to injury, we got a dusting on Sunday which looks prettier, but just hides the ice.
But fortunately, this morning, it is warmer than it was all last week. The melting/flooding is here! 40 degrees this morning going up to 50! Whee! Even if that means having to shovel slush.
About Me
- millionbells
- I'm just shy violet. But I love gardening and butterflies, and I want to keep a record of what I do to my garden. So, I might as well share a little. Canoeing is fun too. I have what you might call a little peony fixation, too.
3 comments:
The weather has been the same here in northern Kentucky. You are right about the sleds - the stores can't keep them in stock around here because most kids had to buy new ones. My kids had some big plastic ones that worked well, but not like those good old runner sleds that you could actually stear!
Great post title, by the way!
How fun for the dog to play sled dog--what kind of a dog do you have?
He loved it. He was a really big collie/german shephard mix. He'd get all frisky and excited when my dad would get the sled dog straps out. When we kids got bigger (past toddler stage), he'd only pull the empty sled, though. It was more so my dad would have his hands free to get us kids back up the hill.
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