In North Texas, we have only one or
two days of snow.
You were only from back East or the
upper Midwest if you actually had ice skates.
My dad did bring with him a snow
shovel from Glen Falls. He loved calling relatives back home telling them
"Bobby and Dorrie were out playing in tee shirts on Christmas Day."
After Christmas, we always made tree
forts. Back East, my mother and father would put up the tree on Christmas
Eve and take it down after New Year's.
In Texas, trees came down the day
after Christmas. We were out of school and could play in our forts for
one week.
Some dads would always make a sled
and tie it on the back of a car. Mr. Barker and El Camino truck ?
Flag Pole Hill became the French Alps
for all local sledding events. You would find sleds anywhere from
American Fliers, to lunch room trays to the old faithful - a piece of cardboard
or garbage can lid.
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