Thread: Granddaughter's first sled rides

We don't often receive much snow here in Middle Tennessee, and when we do it normally is not enough to do much with, nor does it stay long.

Well we now have 4 to 5 inches of the white stuff around my town so we took our granddaughter out for some sledding.

Not that the sled is old, but it is my wife's sled from when she was a little girl.

That is a nice picture. Was this the first time your granddaughter did sledding?

Every winter we have snow more than enough and my kids really spent a lot of time with their sledges at some nearby hills. It is kind of sad that now they are too grown up to play with sledges any more. Luckily they still have their reasons to have fun when there is snow. Here's my daughter with one of our dogs. Pic was taken last winter.

Edit: Another pic. My son with his 'sledge'

Yes Sailor, very first.

She just turned nine. When I was her age (1956) we lived in Iowa and had plenty of snow each winter, as you must in Finland.

I guess fun in the snow evolves, or perhaps just becomes more expensive!

I grew up in New England in the 60's. A snow day was more cherished than Christmas. With flagrant disregard for their orders to stay in the house all day, we'd be out the door dragging our Flexible Flyers, toboggans, flying saucers or sometimes nothing more than flattened cardboard boxes on the way to the hill behind Bunnell High School no longer than three minutes after our parents left for work. We practiced a sort of "full contact" sledding that would terminate at the emergency room nearly as often as the bottom of the slope.

The other day when it was snowing I drove through the high school parking lot expecting to see dozens of young daredevils on advanced versions of the deadly machines we cherished four months of every year. My heart sank when I found myself alone at the top of the snow covered hill. I guess the Apple and Microsoft promise more than steel runners on a cold day.