Comments on: Let It Snow Like This, Once in a While, and Make Us Kids Again http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2009/12/20/let-it-snow-like-this-once-in-a-while-and-make-us-kids-again.html A Haven for the Hockey Malnourished Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:09:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: snowman http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2009/12/20/let-it-snow-like-this-once-in-a-while-and-make-us-kids-again.html/comment-page-1#comment-16350 snowman Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:32:55 +0000 http://onfrozenblog.com/?p=5766#comment-16350 I was born in Duluth, MN in '53 and didn't leave until '75. Spent many hours shoveling snow, and it had to be done before you got to play. Biggest difference between there and here: I don't have my dad telling me to climb on to the second floor roof to get the snow off, lol. I was born in Duluth, MN in ’53 and didn’t leave until ’75. Spent many hours shoveling snow, and it had to be done before you got to play. Biggest difference between there and here: I don’t have my dad telling me to climb on to the second floor roof to get the snow off, lol.

]]> By: pucksandbooks http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2009/12/20/let-it-snow-like-this-once-in-a-while-and-make-us-kids-again.html/comment-page-1#comment-16344 pucksandbooks Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:45:48 +0000 http://onfrozenblog.com/?p=5766#comment-16344 Valley, That's a terrific observation, and I noticed the same thing in my neighborhood. Maybe it's a causality of kids being too video-game-addicted. Valley,

That’s a terrific observation, and I noticed the same thing in my neighborhood. Maybe it’s a causality of kids being too video-game-addicted.

]]> By: Valleycapsfan http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2009/12/20/let-it-snow-like-this-once-in-a-while-and-make-us-kids-again.html/comment-page-1#comment-16343 Valleycapsfan Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:44:37 +0000 http://onfrozenblog.com/?p=5766#comment-16343 At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man ranting on a park bench, I noticed another culture change revealed by this snowstorm compared to the one in '79: entrepreneurship. I remember making some good $$$ shoveling sidewalks that week (I was 16). Yesterday, not a single kid came by asking to do some shoveling. Our neighbor, with 4 boys ages 11-16, shoveled his own walk. Make kids work for their tickets to Caps games and maybe this snow will get moved a little quicker!!! At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man ranting on a park bench, I noticed another culture change revealed by this snowstorm compared to the one in ’79: entrepreneurship. I remember making some good $$$ shoveling sidewalks that week (I was 16). Yesterday, not a single kid came by asking to do some shoveling. Our neighbor, with 4 boys ages 11-16, shoveled his own walk.
Make kids work for their tickets to Caps games and maybe this snow will get moved a little quicker!!!

]]> By: Rita http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2009/12/20/let-it-snow-like-this-once-in-a-while-and-make-us-kids-again.html/comment-page-1#comment-16341 Rita Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:50:29 +0000 http://onfrozenblog.com/?p=5766#comment-16341 I remember my husband and I driving to the old Caps Center for a hockey game in the snow, with hardly any fans there. And then driving to the "phone booth" in the '90's for a game "we couldn't miss". We barely made it back to Central PA watching all of the trucks and other SUV's skidding off the road. Yeah CAPS!!! I remember my husband and I driving to the old Caps Center for a hockey game in the snow, with hardly any fans there. And then driving to the “phone booth” in the ’90′s for a game “we couldn’t miss”. We barely made it back to Central PA watching all of the trucks and other SUV’s skidding off the road. Yeah CAPS!!!

]]> By: matthew langley http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2009/12/20/let-it-snow-like-this-once-in-a-while-and-make-us-kids-again.html/comment-page-1#comment-16334 matthew langley Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:42:11 +0000 http://onfrozenblog.com/?p=5766#comment-16334 I remember that year really well - not only did we have that huge snowstorm late in the year. We had a serious cold snap - cold enough to freeze Lake Accotink for the better part of a month. That's the kind of thing that just doesn't happen in Springfield. We took advantage of that to play pick up hockey for hours on end - usually it ended because a parent would come and literally drag a few of us off the ice - it would ruin the goals too because we used our shoes as "nets". It was the time that I really learned how to skate and I realized I love playing hockey more than watching hockey. I remember that year really well – not only did we have that huge snowstorm late in the year. We had a serious cold snap – cold enough to freeze Lake Accotink for the better part of a month. That’s the kind of thing that just doesn’t happen in Springfield.

We took advantage of that to play pick up hockey for hours on end – usually it ended because a parent would come and literally drag a few of us off the ice – it would ruin the goals too because we used our shoes as “nets”. It was the time that I really learned how to skate and I realized I love playing hockey more than watching hockey.

]]> By: Gary Κriebel http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2009/12/20/let-it-snow-like-this-once-in-a-while-and-make-us-kids-again.html/comment-page-1#comment-16333 Gary Κriebel Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:37:43 +0000 http://onfrozenblog.com/?p=5766#comment-16333 Arian ... great story. Forcaps... High's Stores. That brings back memories. Arian … great story.

Forcaps… High’s Stores. That brings back memories.

]]> By: ForCaps http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2009/12/20/let-it-snow-like-this-once-in-a-while-and-make-us-kids-again.html/comment-page-1#comment-16331 ForCaps Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:11:55 +0000 http://onfrozenblog.com/?p=5766#comment-16331 I with you, I love the snow and the peace it brings! I got a full 24" here and it's breathtakingly beautiful!! I remember the 79 storm too and going out with my dad to walk up to the Highs store. The snow was well up to my waist and having on the marshmallow outfit didn't make walking all that easy! I was out in it this am with my dogs and watching them bound and burst through the snow, tossing them snowballs how can you not enjoy something so pure and so fun! I with you, I love the snow and the peace it brings! I got a full 24″ here and it’s breathtakingly beautiful!! I remember the 79 storm too and going out with my dad to walk up to the Highs store. The snow was well up to my waist and having on the marshmallow outfit didn’t make walking all that easy! I was out in it this am with my dogs and watching them bound and burst through the snow, tossing them snowballs how can you not enjoy something so pure and so fun!

]]> By: Arian http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2009/12/20/let-it-snow-like-this-once-in-a-while-and-make-us-kids-again.html/comment-page-1#comment-16330 Arian Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:38:49 +0000 http://onfrozenblog.com/?p=5766#comment-16330 The thing I remember the most about the '79 storm, aside from the week off from school, was listening to the Caps v. Rangers game on WTOP. Ron Weber's broadcast was continually interrupted by Gordon Barnes back in the studio with ever increasing snow totals. First something like 4-6 inches, and then rising to 8-10 and beyond. So for me, that storm is linked with Ron Weber and the Caps. The thing I remember the most about the ’79 storm, aside from the week off from school, was listening to the Caps v. Rangers game on WTOP. Ron Weber’s broadcast was continually interrupted by Gordon Barnes back in the studio with ever increasing snow totals. First something like 4-6 inches, and then rising to 8-10 and beyond. So for me, that storm is linked with Ron Weber and the Caps.

]]> By: LANGWAY IN BOWIE http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2009/12/20/let-it-snow-like-this-once-in-a-while-and-make-us-kids-again.html/comment-page-1#comment-16329 LANGWAY IN BOWIE Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:51:10 +0000 http://onfrozenblog.com/?p=5766#comment-16329 As a 56 y.o. guy I'd prefer to pass on 20" snowfalls, especially when 5-6" fell ater 5:00 pm and I still need to clean off 4 cars, re-shovel and extricate my driveway from 3 foot high plowing drifts, and then check on my two neighbors (who are 65 & 85 y.o., repectively). In '79 I stayed at my parents house, parked my car and my dad's car in a small shopping center where we knew the merchants (& which always was plowed), walked 1.5 miles home and 1.5 miles back in he morning with snow shovels so we could go to work. TGIS(unday)! As a 56 y.o. guy I’d prefer to pass on 20″ snowfalls, especially when 5-6″ fell ater 5:00 pm and I still need to clean off 4 cars, re-shovel and extricate my driveway from 3 foot high plowing drifts, and then check on my two neighbors (who are 65 & 85 y.o., repectively). In ’79 I stayed at my parents house, parked my car and my dad’s car in a small shopping center where we knew the merchants (& which always was plowed), walked 1.5 miles home and 1.5 miles back in he morning with snow shovels so we could go to work.
TGIS(unday)!

]]> By: Gary Κriebel http://www.onfrozenblog.com/2009/12/20/let-it-snow-like-this-once-in-a-while-and-make-us-kids-again.html/comment-page-1#comment-16327 Gary Κriebel Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:22:47 +0000 http://onfrozenblog.com/?p=5766#comment-16327 The '87 snow was great since as a HS senior graduation was set and we didn't have to attend the makeup days. The ’87 snow was great since as a HS senior graduation was set and we didn’t have to attend the makeup days.

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