Skating on Thin Ice
Do you remember how to ice skate? I had to yesterday. (Note: there will be no photographs with this post)!
Our one and only pathetic North Country mall does not have a cinema, but it does have a skating rink, and that's where "Bomma" and "Brappa" took Grandson yesterday. For a meager $5 you can have a pair of skates and use the rink for two hours on Sunday afternoon (between hockey games and figure skating lessons), and so we decided to see if the 4-year-old could handle it.
We had fun, but there probably won't be any future NHL bidding war for the boy. Here's a haiku he inspired:
Hockey skates glide proud
Young boy makes ice acquaintance
Bottom black and blue
And:
Grandparents on skates
Helping grandson survive ice
Can you spell achey ?
Monday, January 22, 2007
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Sounds like the majority of you had fun. Frankly, I'm surprised you don't have your own ice rink there on Wizard Acres. My Mom's cousin used to flood his back yard and have skating all Winter long.
Ah, fun times...
We do skate on a couple of the beaver ponds, but the management doesn't provide rental equipment. There's also a story I'll tell someday about our son falling through the ice (which is much less likely to happen at a public rink).
Sounds like a good time!!!! And as Mom to a little one who's been skating since she was 2, they ALL start out that way. I wouldn't rule out an NHL career just yet!!! LOL Hope the bruises heal quickly! ;)
oh, well, i remember the feeling of how to ice skate. i remember the memory of how to ice skate. can i still do it? no telling. i wish we had decent ice skating rinks around here though.
the joy of a child
a bum that is blue and black
memories on ice
I must be honest and admit....I am jealous!!! I ahve never had the opportunity to learn to ice skate. I think that would be wonderful to learn...Note to self, add ice skating to list of things to accomplish in the next few years.
Sounds like you had fun. :-) I have to be honest and say that I never got the hang of ice skating. My ankles just aren't strong enough.
My mother was Rochester, NY, speed skating champ for a number of years (back in the 1930s). I didn't inherit her ability!! She would be really dismayed if she saw me on skates now.
Yes, it was fun, but mostly I just tried to stay right-side-up and keep Grandson from landing too hard. Husband has the talent in this sport.
Shaumi - Good one!!! I've been wishing that others would join in!
i think haiku can be fun. and i really enjoyed yours.
somewhere in my archives i have a series of haiku that i posted one day last summer. maybe i should find them and give them a label so i can retrieve them easily.
Old farts out on skates
Listening to country song:
Achey-breaky butt?
I was just talking about ice skating with a friend of mine.I managed some skills as a kid,but it's been years since I last went...I think it would be fun to go and fall down a few times.
Gosh, Judge, I thought it was a Richard Farina song:
She's got a pair o' skates and screamin' like Geronimo she makes a little hole in the ice...
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