Winter Fun

With all the snow we received yesterday and today, it took me back to my youth. I can remember everywhere I lived that it was fun when it snowed. When we lived on Oak Grove Road, I can remember sledding down the street. And it night everyone would come out,block off the roads and build fires in cans. We would start out on Oak Grove and go down around the corner to Sharon. Sharon was a huge hill. Always lots of fun. When I lived on Eastwin, we had a huge hill in our back yard. And the road itself was great. My brother and I, along with all the neighborhood kids would walk up to the top of Eastwin almost. If it was a good snow we could start at the top and go all the way to the bottom of the road and turn onto Southwin. I remember the wind in my face and the swooshing sound of the sled, along with the screams of all the kids. Such fun! We always made snow cream,built snowmen, had snowball fights and built forts. Once it snowed so deep on Eastwin that we built a tunnel, and I remember my mom putting the snow cream and milk out there in it. We had lost our power.One Christmas in the 60's, I got my sled(that I still have) from my grandparents, and I got a wagon from Santa, and a hoppity-hop.. I took my hoppity hop out in the snow and the cold busted it. I cried!

This is a Hoppity Hop! Exactly like I had.

Here I am sitting on my sled and my food plate was in the wagon.. Christmas 1969. My Aunt and granddaddy are in the picture too.

It snowed that Christmas in '69. Here I am beside a tree that uprooted in our yard.

 In this picture is my Hoppity Hop . Santa brought it to me.

 Sledding on Oak Grove

This one above here is from 1970. Love my clothes! HAHA
I will have to go through my pictures and upload some snow ones from Eastwin and from Hickory Tree Road.
Good memories!
My dad would stay out of work if it was really bad and play with me in the snow when I was really young. I can remember him going out early on snow mornings and putting chains on the tires if he really HAD to get to work, which wasn't often when it snowed.That is what you did back then.

This picture from https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2722642281475131662#editor/target=post;postID=6740326849798171653 reminds me of my dad doing that. And he had a dark ,wool,long coat like that one and he had a green hat with a feather that he wore on snow days!
Those were the days!