Getting Tired Of The Snow

Snow seems to be the topic of everyone's conversation these days - even the news up here in frigid northern Alberta is reporting on the snow in sunny, hot, Georgia. North America has gone snow mad. It wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to drive in it, be out in the cold, bundle up in heavy coats, boots, hats and mitts.




This is the street my daughter Sara lives on, on the right at the bend at the top of the street. It hasn't been plowed, and maybe will be once before spring thaw in March. It's up to traffic to beat the snow down. That works fine if you like ruts, bumps and streets that are a third as wide as they are in the summer. You must admit it's beautiful though. The frustrating thing is that if residents don't have their sidewalks shoveled down to bare cement within 48 hours of a snowfall the city fines them. Too bad residents can't fine the city for neglect of snowy streets. It's been tried and failed.

This is the first year for this trampoline. Do you think maybe we should have put it away for the winter? The kids love it. Lets hope there's still some spring in it come spring. Just look at that saggy bottom.

The swing set fares a bit better than the trampoline. They don't mind being buried for awhile.

Is it any wonder that skating, cross country skiing, sledding, curling, and hockey are a big part of life here. The motto seems to be 'don't fight winter, embrace it.' It'll be over in a few months and then we'll be complaining of the heat.

Getting Air

I spent some time with Rob and Cindy's kids last week. They have a new trampoline so we had some fun time jumping and snapping action photos. If Brooklyn looks slightly odd in the pictures it's because she has a patch on one of her eyes to correct a lazy eye. She likes to draw pictures on them before she puts them on (a new one every day) and the patch on that particular day contained two large black dots...a kooky, creative kid. One of her previous patches contained a drawing of an eyeball!

Anyway, this blog is about jumping so here are some pics. It's such fun to see the grandkids having so much fun.

You can tell Brooklyn has had some dancing lessons - what great form she displays!

For such a light, slight little girl, she can bounce pretty high.

And her landings are perfect. Notice the dotted eye patch in this picture.

Anson figured that sometimes just running along the edge was fun enough.

And they jumped together, separately.

Anson has discovered that part of the fun is just laying on the tramp getting bounced while the other guy does all the work.

But then he takes his turn jumping too.

I'm told this is called the Donkey Kick. I'll take her word for it.

What a happy time! Go Anson!