Pre-Christmas Activities












On our way back from our Hardware ranch trip we spied a large mound of Ice...oops someone forgot to turn the sprinklers off. So we're out of the car, of course now we have to play!

Behind and down the lane a little from our home is a large pond and it is frozen and ready for want to be ice skaters...like Dianne below. She is certainly more graceful her than when she was playing football on our back lawn and hit a patch of ice. Down she went, nothing broken but she is still recovering.

As you can see the big and the small were out on the pond.













Everyone and his dog were out on the ice. Yes that is Frankie, Lorie's dog. and he is getting is footing down. After a short time of practice he was off and running and there was no stopping him after he felt the freedom of open space to run.








After a few short lessons from Chris Robin was off and going also. That is jim with snow Shovel in hand. He was busy making an ice skating trail. Of couse the next day it snowed a little and all his hard work was gone. While everyone was here there was many more visits to the pond to ice skate and many were really getting the hang of it. The funny thing is that all pond have their sounds and this one is no different. As the water and ice change a cracking sound can be heard. When this would happen everyone would come to a stand still and wait...but nothing happened. Sometimes a long crack could be found. The ice on this pond is many inches thick. It never get above freezing here so not to worry. But it is a scary sound, especially if your are in the middle of the pond.