Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for February 19, 2022

Why doesn’t the world revolve around me?

All set for IG, she is

buy her a new sled Adam, that one is as old as you!

Katy’s look in the first panel reminds me of my niece (when she’s happy)

I remember the Flexible Flyer. I never had one, but my best friend did, and we had lots of fun riding it.

But perhaps the best sled of all (at least the most famous) was “Rosebud”.

Long ago we had an aluminum saucer sled

Last I knew my son had it and it had been repurposed as a shield for cosplay

Wax the bottom of it.

Go ahead Adam. Show her how to use it. …I….dare….you.

just a smidge of wax or cooking spray and zoom!

No it wasn’t. I had a 1960’s saucer sled. Red. Made from steel. It sunk into one inch deep snow and was useless on anything but ice. Using it on ice made you spin around like Peggy Fleming (looking nowhere near as good).

You just had to keep going down the same path and each time it would pack down more and you’d go a little farther each time until it was like a luge run. The trick was to not rotate 180 degrees. When you ended up going down backward you’d soon tip over.

I liked the saucer sled best because I didn’t have to ride it with several of my six siblings, or drag it up the hill with them sitting on it.

The snow was the same but the hills were higher

When I was a kid (many moons ago) occasionally my folks use to take my brother and I to Mt. Hood to sled (about an hour from where we lived). It was awesome sledding down the slopes carefully created just for that purpose.

Still the best sledding was in the city when it snowed. We had a very steep neighborhood street that was closed off to cars during snow days. Nothing like sledding down it trying to avoid the cars parked on each side, and the cross street traffic at the bottom. This was back in the day when we could go out and play without parental supervision. As long as we didn’t do serious bodily harm and were back home by dark it was all good.

Saucer sleds still work great.

Best on hard pack → ice. That’s what we have/will have.