Comments on: TO OUR TMV READERS AND COMMENTERS: Blessed Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Holy Solstice, Bright Kwanzaa, y Feliz Navidad…and… How Totally Cool It Is To Be A Child in Winter….

By: archangel

archangel — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:00:20 +0000

dear Jim, thanks for the postscript, and I'm with you, …partial to our furry relatives. OUt here where I live in the ROckies, when it snows those big flakes, the dogs jump and jump up in the air trying to snag those big flakes. It's very funny and dear. THe only other people you see doing that are kids who run around with their mouths open to try to catch the snowflakes as they fall. And um, mutter mumble, mumble… me. lol

dr.e

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:11:24 +0000

dr. e, I forgot to tell you how much I loved the photos. While I love kids I have to admit that the one of the dog is my favorite.

By: archangel

archangel — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:41:58 +0000

I love it when you guys tell snippets of your own stories in life. You are so cool

By: river

river — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:35:48 +0000

Dr. E. . .sounds like you have even more snow that when you posted this. . .good luck keeping warm. . .Some of my favorite memories where when blizzards would roll in to the Texas panhandle and the drifts would be so big the cattle would walk over the fences. . . we would go out on horseback sorting the wandering cattle from the ranches . . .We did not have good mountains, not even hills, so when it snowed we had a old Coke a Cola sign that we flipped and rigged up with a rope and a horse. . .

By: kritt11

kritt11 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:09:04 +0000

I used to live in Long Island, NY as a child and one winter I had to be carried out of our neighborhood on someone's shoulders. We stayed with relatives for a couple of weeks and had a blast.

When I lived in Alabama, the streets iced up one year and we sledded down them- Yes it was probably idiotic- but so much fun. Then we went inside for cocoa and cookies. I feel sorry for Floridians who will never experience the joys of winter weather.

By: archangel

archangel — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:27:48 +0000

bring them on Jillzie

best of the lovelight to you also,

dr.e

By: Jillmz

Jillmz — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:26:15 +0000

What fantastic photos! I might have to scan the ones from when I had two of my three kids and the snow was several feet high and it was averaging 20 below.

Ditto the occasions and wishes to all.

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:45:26 +0000

Yeah, the “recovery” from playing in the snow and cold was pretty good too.

By: archangel

archangel — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:40:48 +0000

aw DLS, I hope you had a chance to tell your goddaughters just that today!! I so remember, dont you, though I grew up in one of the premiere, 'children should be not seen and not heard' families, that any even small attention a child receives from a grown up with love, is just so very memorable? I hope y ou will call them up today –or if your're going to see them….and tell each other the stories of your times on Big Bear and Lake G… and more

dr.e

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:47:51 +0000

You made me miss my goddaughters again. (I would take them up to Lake Gregory and Big Bear at Christmastime for snow fun.) Come to think of it, I miss the others in my life from So-Cal days there, and So-Cal…

By: archangel

archangel — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:56:17 +0000

oh Jim, that is SO cool! I wish we could do all these things again, right now. I'll bring the hot cocoa. river and krit and the rest of the guys could bring those teeny marshmallows I've seen people use in hot chocolate. I dont know, maybe we'd have to have hot campbell's tomato soup first. (a little yick…lol). And then take half an hour to get into all the snow suit stuff and boots and mittens and face scarf and hats and such. great memory Jim

dr.e

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:32:34 +0000

Ah, what I remember of “snowcraft” is a little different. Our backyard had a small “hill”, more of a drop off that was fairly lengthy before evening out. When we would get good snowfalls that part of our yard would develop drifts that made it to where the higher part of the yard seemed to extend further than normal but it was just very deep snow. I would actually dig tunnels through this snow if it packed enough to allow it.

By: kritt11

kritt11 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:12:06 +0000

Happy holidays!

- and man, that snow looks like fun! (Uh unless it comes with a power outage that is!)

By: river

river — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:05:19 +0000

. . . And Happy Holidays to you dear Dr. E. . . Be Blessed to the far corners of the world. . . this Season. . . and the year to come. . .