Calling all pond hockey players: the warmest we’ll see D.C. before next Friday is Thursday’s high of 35 degrees, with night-time lows, each night, threatening the single digits. My sources in upper Montgomery County inform me that that region’s waterways are already covered with a thin sheen of ice. Shinny on the Canal next weekend, anyone?
Old Man Winter sure has made a comeback. Of George Foreman proportions.
Of course, downtown, the Park Police Party Poopers will insist on at least 24 inches of Winnipeg thickness before they’ll allow toddlers out for a mid-winter skate. Trust me, by late this coming week Maryland streams and shallow ponds will be ready for day-long recreating in touques and traditional hockey sweaters. I’m interested in parking my Jeep off-road somewhere and walking through a thicket toward unmonitored black ice paradise.
So here’s my offer: if your neighborhood has such a hideaway, send us directions and OFB will bring a chest of puck sodas.
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Give me at least four inches of frozen lake and I am a happy woman. Best feeling in the world.
Let me know when and where! rdegem@hotmail.com
Pinecliff Park Frederick Maryland
1:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 11th
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[...] I was in the misery portion of Saturday night’s game with the Rags on my television when I logged on for diversion and found a fortuitous comment to my “Freezing February, My Friend” file of earlier in the week. It informed me of a skating pond in Frederick, Maryland, frozen solid, altogether welcoming of shinny skaters. Imagine that! There were hockey players young and more experienced gathering there Sunday afternoon, the email informed me. In an instant, sad Saturday became Let’s -Get-to-Bed-Early-for-Skating-Sunday. [...]
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