I remember cardboard boxes to slide on. I remember taking a shovel to a nearby pond to clear the snow so we could ice skate. Such fond memories.
I used to hate snowfalls. Gotta get up an hour early to shovel out the driveway so I could go to work.
Now it’s put on a pot of coffee, and just look at the wonderland outside my window. Growing old is not without its perks.
Do they even make sleds any more?
I inherited my Mom’s Yankee Clipper and had a little Red Arrow...used it for years.
Now I never see them, at least in the box stores and certainly not in use.
We lived in flat as hell NJ...best you could do was running belly flops on the icy roads or grabbing the bumpers of passing cars. Sad part was some kid would usually be killed during the winter doing that.
But we had no hills...
I still have 2 early 60’s flexible flyers in the garage.
A few years ago we had several inches of snow here in NC.
The kids in the neighborhood were sliding in front of our house. Those 2 sleds became really popular when they realized they were the fastest thing on the hill. With the right hill, we’d go better than half a mile with those - and we’d keep riding those last 25 feet - barely moving until they inched to a stop.
State College PA looks like about 16 inches this morning.
We always opened our gifts Christmas Eve!
My Grandmother made the BEST fruitcake!
Merry Christmas, knarf!
We had steel sleds that we jumped over an old Chevy hood that we poured water on to freeze up to create a ski jump. That was great fun until Nora hit the curb at the bottom of the hill busting her two front teeth.
As a kid in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, it was the Crazy Carpets that were the snow toy to have. There is a large hill near the east end suburb I grew up in that’s always been popular for tobogganing and I took a Crazy Carpet down that hill and, needless to say, it was an adventure not for the faint hearted kid, lol.
We had “Rosebud” type sleds back in the 50s and 60s in CT. You could get some great speed on those babies!
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.
We have 3 feet and it’s just starting to let up.