Christmas List and other miscelaneous.....

Jay Anglin

Jay Anglin

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So my son Mitch whips this simple Christmas list up for Santa. I couldn't help but to share it.

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Go easy on Santa kid...you'll get a Black Lab puppy and like it!

I took them sledding last night on a famously slick run out by Fish Lake. It just so happens that I had a great goose shoot across the road from this hill yesterday morning and a little sledding/scouting was in order. It's all about multi-tasking!

Well, said hill was a tad bit icy yesterday....it was more like a luge run. I let them take a run or two and they had a blast. Every bit of my modern fatherly instinct told me "DANGER" but my carefree 70's upbringing said, "you've done this tons of times and never ended up with any major broken bones". The net/net of this adventure was that my youngest son RJ will probably be more like me in his fearless pursuit of adrenaline and his brother on the other hand.....that's gotta hurt! It was a spectacular crash across the county road-practically jumped it really, into some old ladies yard. I actually took video with my cell phone.

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Oh, the memories! Hopefully in 5 years he won't be stashing the Peppermint Schnapps in the wood pile next to the hill like his old man did.
 
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Jay,

My son is 28 and he wants the same stuff!!

Man-o-man I remember some really spectacular crashes with my old steel runner sled. Usually when a sled, an oak tree and a little kid get together on the bottom of the hill there is going to be blood. When I was in the navy I got a letter from home saying my youngest brother broke his leg while out sledding - got run over. Or the time my other brother wrecked the tobaggon - hit a horseshoe stake buried in a snow drift - dead center too. Or when we would sled at night and see who could come closest to a burning flare stuck in the snow without getting burned. Ever go down an ice block tobaggon run on a sled? - whooohoo what a ride.

Sad part is the kids don't do half that stuff anymore.
 
Jay,

Put those fatherly urges aside and let the kids rip! Just wait until they are enough to have motorized equipment, hehe


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Pete,
I remember sledding down a trail in the woods at our local Boy Scout camp. Two thirds the way down a steep hill the trail made a turn at the base of a tree. First few runs everyone made it just fine. Then the rail started to pack and get icy. My steel runners didn't have quite enough grip for the speed I was going when I tried to made the turn. I slammed into the tree with the side of the sled, popping all the boards loose from the steel frame upon impact. Ended up with some very sore ribs and I was done sledding for the day, man that hurt something fierce.
 
We had a "Deadmans" hill at our local park. There were tree lined steps on each end of the hill. The hill went down about 30' at about a 60 degree angle to a shelf that was about 5' wide.....off that shelf you didn't touch ground until the bottom. I ended up several times 7-8' off the ground in the trees by the steps. Many bones were broken on Deadmans hill and they (my generation sadly) smoothed it out, took the steps out and pretty much ruined the sledding bowl. Some of the most exciting T bones and near misses were seen there as 200 people were coming from all four ways, all the time.
 
Dave,
A buddy and I took a corner like that and piled up a huge bank of snow, carving out a track for the sleds to turn on (picture the corners on bobsled tracks) That pile of snow lasted a couple of months (we had to help add strength by carrying buckets of water and wetting each layer as we added it. ahhhh, engineers start practicing early :D If you could hold it together through the corner, tilted about 45 degrees and bouncing over the ice, the release from the corner was an awesome experience.
 
What the heck is an X box 360 ? I understood the $100.00. The young man has excellent penmanship.

Nice lookin kid.

God Bless and Merry Christmas,

Harry
 
Yeah Jeff,

If he gets all that stuff, I want to be adopted by the Old Man myself. When my Son was five he wanted a Lamborghini Countache and a Game Boy. He got the Game Boy.

If I got a cap pistol and some candy and fruit, I thought I'd had a major gift when I was that age. The year I got my Daisy Red Ryder was the most memorable. I also got a tail whuppin that day for shooting my neighbors storm door. I was aiming at a starling on his porch and the BB glanced off of the bricks into said storm door. Years later Cousin Bubba and I shot that same door with a pipe cannon (demolished the sumbitch that time). I was trying to shoot over his house but the bipod for the cannon slipped while the fuse was burning. So much for my career as an Artilleryman.

Merry Christmas,

Harry
 
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