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Greg - 2007-02-20 14:02:20
Um... I actually like the old fashioned winters. Not necessarily NYC old fashioned winters though. Still some fond memories though--playing football in the snow and ice outside St. Andrews Pub on 44th. Doing the East Village shuffle in the blizzard and having snowball fights with homeless people and skaters in Tompkins Square Park (all willing participants I swear). Going to see the Pogues at the Ritz during an ice storm (the Rum Sodomy & the Lash tour) and wandering home singing. Top of the fort out on Governors Island watching the snow fall... Staten Island Ferry I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD. Yes, I love old fashioned winters.
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Paula - 2007-02-20 14:39:22
OK, I take it back--I don't speak for everyone, and those sound like nice memories.
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grigorss - 2007-02-20 15:26:53
Oh, we might all long for those "old-fashioned winters" if this ever comes about; of course, some of us will bear it better than others...
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Greg - 2007-02-20 19:20:06
A favorite winter memory--I grew up in a Revolutionary War era house about 100 feet from the high tide mark on the Hudson River. Our side was on the opposite side from the shipping channel so by Christmas time you could walk out on the ice. By this time of year the stuff the icebreakers tore up had collected on the bank into a solid wall of ice between 6 and 10 feet high with little caves and trenches--great winter fun. The windows were all single pains of glass so in the morning condensation would be frozen to the inside of the pain covering most of the windows in sparkling floral and gem patterns--no curtains needed. My dopey dog Tramp (not an inside dog) burrowed a snow cave where frozen sheets of snow waited pine branches to the ground and stuck them there... when you crawled inside it was like a little room cushioned in old pine needles... so yeah, old fashioned winters work for me. Bring on the Ice Age.
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Greg - 2007-02-20 19:21:22
I thought I remembered spelling pane, twice... odd.
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Greg - 2007-02-20 20:49:47
Waited? Hooked on phonics? Lordy.
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