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The most beautiful natural ice rinks around the world
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| 6 December 2017
| Jennifer Newton
Posted on 12/06/2017 4:40:37 PM PST by mairdie
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To: Gay State Conservative
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:20:19 PM PST
by
mylife
( The Roar of the Masses could be Farts)
To: mylife
The view in winter from our front porch. They built berms and filled them from the street hydrants. There was a warming house and benches. A wonderful place to grow up on the south side of Chicago.
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:20:53 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: Gay State Conservative
Well, no lakes that freeze over and no rinks in Tucson.
To: mairdie
We always had a fire and tons of hot chocolate
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:22:56 PM PST
by
mylife
( The Roar of the Masses could be Farts)
To: DLfromthedesert
They gave Skiing on Mt Lemmon!
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:29:56 PM PST
by
mylife
( The Roar of the Masses could be Farts)
To: DLfromthedesert
But yer right lakes don’t freeze in Tucson.
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:31:46 PM PST
by
mylife
( The Roar of the Masses could be Farts)
To: mairdie
Looks like more fun than an IPhone :)
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:32:57 PM PST
by
mylife
( The Roar of the Masses could be Farts)
To: DLfromthedesert
...no rinks in Tucson.I thought that Tucson was a pretty good sized town.
To: mairdie
A wonderful place to grow up on the south side of Chicago.Rumor has it that the south side of Chicago is a little less wonderful today than it once was.
To: Mark17
To: mairdie
Cool! I grew up in Minnesota, and one of the neighbors had sons that were all real good hockey players (one to the Olympics iirc.) They would put up boards in their backyard, flood it and made a regulation sized rink during the winter. Me and my buddies that pretended we could skate okay would go across the street to the pond.
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:45:30 PM PST
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
To: mairdie
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:47:32 PM PST
by
JayGalt
(Let Trump Be Trump)
To: 21twelve
The old Man built a rink in the backyard presumably to keep us in clear sight.
It failed we played on the ice in the woods
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:50:15 PM PST
by
mylife
( The Roar of the Masses could be Farts)
To: Gay State Conservative
When I built a website for our grammar school’s 50th, I heard that they took a bus to visit the school but had to have a police escort for the bus.
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:50:43 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: dfwgator
I remember Lake Louise. Absolutely awestruck.
Also by the huge parking lots in Edmonton that were honeycombed with poles from which dropped electrical cords to warm up and start each car.
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posted on
12/06/2017 5:55:54 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
One of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen was clear black river ice - it must have been two feet thick, and captured in it were air bubbles and great swirling ribbons where the ice had cracked and refrozen. Looking into it was like looking into space, with stars and galaxies.
Every now and then the river would shift and crack as we walked over it, with a noise like a deep guitar string being pluced.
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posted on
12/06/2017 6:07:43 PM PST
by
heartwood
(Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
To: heartwood
Plucked.
So much for waxing potetic.
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posted on
12/06/2017 6:09:01 PM PST
by
heartwood
(Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
To: mairdie
Yes, Lake Louise. It would get my vote.
To: heartwood
I know that sound we would spread out on our bellys and make way to shore
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posted on
12/06/2017 6:14:48 PM PST
by
mylife
( The Roar of the Masses could be Farts)
To: heartwood
My heart just cracked at your most beautiful description. I would have been TERRIFIED.
My idea of perfect ice is an ice ball that won't crack beneath your feet.
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posted on
12/06/2017 6:17:54 PM PST
by
mairdie
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