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cecelia
True Blue Farmgirl
497 Posts
cecelia
new york
USA
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 Posted - Jan 06 2005 : 7:27:17 PM
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Anyone do any snowshoeing (not in Florida or the South I guess)?
Interested in knowing where, when, etc. I've been going out for about 30 years, and just recently tried the new aluminum models. I guess I must be getting old because I found them quite the thing if you have any arthritis in your feet! My old reliable wooden pair is now for sale - the difference in weight is astonishing!
Cecelia
ce's farm
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Eileen
True Blue Farmgirl
1199 Posts
Eileen
USA
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Posted - Jan 07 2005 : 07:37:59 AM
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Hi Cecelia,
My kids in Wisconsin do a lot of snowshoeing! They love it too. Yesterday I talked to my son in law and he said they have had over 4 feet of snow since thanksgiving and he puts on his snow shoes to go to the wood pile!!!
Eileen
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Eileen
True Blue Farmgirl
1199 Posts
Eileen
USA
1199 Posts |
Posted - Jan 07 2005 : 08:17:37 AM
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Lorij,
Could have been an entry in Funniest home videos! Hope you had a sense of humor about it!
Eileen
songbird; singing joy to the earth |
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Eileen
True Blue Farmgirl
1199 Posts
Eileen
USA
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Posted - Jan 08 2005 : 10:39:34 AM
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Lorij,
It reminds me of the time we put in our first lawn!
It was our first "New" tract house and neither of us had ever planted a lawn. We roto tilled, raked. fertilized seeded and rolled the lawn area as we had read in the books. We watered as we thought it needed and found out the first time I went to move the water to another location that the ground was a sort of clay and once it was wet it was like quick sand! I walked out to the sprinkler to pick it up and as I got about a foot from it my leg went under ground up to my knee and I lost my shoe!!!    We never did find the shoe. Then of course as I tried to move to more solid ground my other foot sank! I began to holler for my husband to come rescue me.
He got a a long handled rake and held it out for me to grab on to and I slowly walked back to dry ground. After that we watered with a hand held sprinkler just until it was wet and did not walk on it for months! Had to fill in the holes later.
Eileen
songbird; singing joy to the earth |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Jan 08 2005 : 6:36:28 PM
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When I lived in Connecticut, I had a small dog, a miniature schnauzer. She loved the snow, and I would let her go bounding over the drifts. She would come back so literally caked with snow that I had to thaw her out in the basement. One day I let her out the door and she went springing up a drift and disappeared! I cautiously crept up the drift and looked into a hole, and there she was, very still, about three feet down, just like she had landed with her little legs splayed out. I will never forget the look of surprise in her eyes and it took me awhile to lift her out. Perhaps I should have put snowshoes on her!
jpbluesky
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