Posted on 12/17/2020 3:58:36 AM PST by knarf
Here in SW Pa, I can't remember the last time we had a true white Christmas.
I know the department stores I remember as a child in the 50's in Boston don't exist any more ... and that's too bad.
memories.
The stores USED TO be crammed with snow toys for Christmas and all I saw in Walmart the other day was some cheap, plastic snow coasters ... those round things that suck.
So I woke up this morning to about 7 or 8 inches of TERRIFIC dry snow .... and my body is too un-cooperative for me to enjoy it.
Merry Christmas.
They can't fire you for saying that
Flat as hell NJ? I lived in a town called Leonia, right off of Rt. 46. From there it was just about 1/4 mile or so down first one street, then down another, then down another. The ride lasted a good minute or so. We’d station someone down at the bottom of each cross street so we wouldn’t have to stop and go.
It was the most fun a kid could have (except maybe for the walk back up.)
Oh yeah!
We had “Rosebud” type sleds back in the 50s and 60s in CT. You could get some great speed on those babies!
Lived across the river from Wilmington...only real elevation there was if you went up steps...
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We have enough snow on the ground and some more coming that we should have a blanket of snow for Christmas, maybe even some snow falling that day.
I’m not working now but hubby is. This morning our son and I shoveled the driveway, cleared off his truck and warmed up the engine/defrost so he could get ready for work at his own pace. It was nice to see him drive off without having had to break a sweat.
No sled riding as a kid...that’s downright child abuse!
Another thing we used to do was to go around and collect all the discarded Christmas trees in the neighborhood (took all morning), use them to build a fort and have “siege the fort” snowball fights. The smell was amazing if you were lucky enough to be in the fort.
We have 3 feet and it’s just starting to let up.
We have maybe 2-3 inches. So unusual for our area. Not that I'm complaining.
I feel like I’m back in CNY.
I can’t see the road from our house and mr. mm needs to get the driveway cleared.
So I”m staying in enjoying the wood stove and making Christmas cookies and doing general cleaning up.
We used to go drinking there after work back in the 80’s..
Sounds familiar. At the bottom of our hill you had to make it between some poplar trees. About 4 or 5 feet between the row of trees.
Fun had an element of danger those days.
No hill sledding...we belly flopped and caught cars...
We had fun with sleds...sure do miss it
And both of us moved from NJ to NC where the snow (if it comes at all ) lasts only as long as it takes to dig the sled out from the shed from behind the yard tractor and the blower and the ladder and the...
you can still buy the flexible flyer at walmart. online at least.
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