The family that sleighs together,
stays together.
And it certainly has been a
winter for sleighing - or sledding -
giving us three “kids” ample
chance to break in our Christmas
sleds.
Last weekend, we even coaxed
the farmer into joining us. He
unearthed his battered old coaster,
suffering from more than its
share of splintering, since his
favorite childhood winter Sport
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was zipping down icy hills and
smacking into frozen snowmen.
As ice crusted over the roads, we
discovered that we could lug our
sleds nearly the quarter-mile up
the road, gather speed down the
steepest grade, angle around the
comer and glide for long minutes,
way out past the house.
Or, with a sharp turn right above
the old bam, and a sharp left
around the calf barn, then one
quick slide around the stone wall at
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the milk house, you’d sail right up
and over the pile of snow pushed by
the truck’s snowplow as it cleared
a way for the milk truck.
Of course, you never made that
goal if you first oversteered and
crunched into a solid snowbank
along the way, or roiled off the sled
into the yard fence, or clipped the
protective bale of hay at the fence
corner, or plummetted down over
the bank and came face-to-face
with the chickenhouse wall. Or ran
over your finger with the sled like a
certain employee whose name I
won't mention.
We’d finished milking one
evening and were coasting these
paths after dark, our way lit by the
whitish glow of the farm night
lights. Fog had blanketed our little
valley, and from the hills above the
house, it looked as though the farm
floated in space, an oasis of soft
light in the surrounding darkness.
“This is eerie,” whispered one
youngster, as the other sledders
trudged up the hill, resembling
some outer space beings gliding
through the murky black night.
Sunday afternoon sledding was
even more stunning.
It was the kids who first
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discovered that the law of gravity
decrees that a sled rider, parted
from his vehicle, will continue the
downhill trek across ice-slick
smooth fields, preferably feet-first
and posterior side down.
“I slid over three alfalfa fields! ”
hooted one after finally stopping
bottomside at the toot of the
contoured hill. That was after
parting company with the sled,
somewhere near the beginning of
the roller coaster trip.
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ding experience, skidding
sideways, or spinning round and
round, before you finally came to
rest at the end of the run, which
fortunately never ended in the
creek.
Together, we compared sore
muscles and clustered before the
medicine chest for band-aids for
scraped wrists.
Looking back, I breathe a sigh of
relief that we didn’t end up,
together, at the hospital’s
emergency room.
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