There’s a good snow cover over most of the Prairies this winter and so we see cross country ski trails, motor toboggan tracks and sleigh scratchings in nearly every district. After those first bone-chilling days in December the potatoes have come off their couches and into the great outdoors.
We have a small hill in a park back of where we live and it is crawling with kids equipped with an odd assortment of sliding devices. In “the olden times,” when my generation was into zipping down hills, we had a choice of a wooden sled, a toboggan or a set of skis.
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Today the youngsters have all kinds and shapes of sliders, from magic carpets to round satellite dishes. The term magic carpet is a way of converting a pliable piece of cheap colored plastic into something quite expensive.
The satellite is a round hard plastic slider with handles. It permits the venturesome to skid down a hill and end up in a spin at the bottom.
In short, the winter solstice has come and gone, the days are getting longer and residents of this last best west are launching their winter outdoor activities. Carnivals, sleigh rides, snow festivals, cross-country races, car bonspiels, road hockey, speed skating, hiking, ice fishing, dog races, all bring the citizenry out into the crisp winter air.
It almost makes you feel sorry for those snowbirds twiddling away their time between golf and bridge down south.
