“Roller-skating and ice-skating are two different things – I found that out the hard way.”
Today is warm but ugly. Yesterday’s rain left a damp, cloudy day. I’m going nowhere. Today is a good nap day. The dump can wait until Wednesday.
This is a quiet week for me. My dance card is pretty empty. I have my usual Tuesday and Wednesday uke practice and lesson, and I don’t have any concerts. The next one is at the mall on Sunday. We’re doing the Irish book. I will be clad accordingly.
I am a sloth today. I have no ambition. The dust balls can grow to huge proportions, black and white science fiction monster proportions. I’ll arm myself with my hand vacuum just in case!
When I was a kid, we had a TV console. It was big and wooden. The TV was hidden behind a couple of doors. Its screen was small. We always sat close risking permanent blindness.
The skates I had when I was a kid were one size fits all. You could pull the skate in the middle to fit your shoe length. A key tightened the grips on the top sides of the skates. I always kept my roller skate key on a string around my neck though sometimes I’d tie the ends of a shoelace together and use that to hold my key. Sneakers were never good for roller skating. I couldn’t tighten the grips enough. My skates had leather straps which went across the tops of my feet. They always held. The grips didn’t. Sometimes my foot would come loose, and the skate would dangle by the strap until I stopped to tighten the grip again. If you ever lost your skate key, it was the end of skating.
I loved the sound of the skates rolling on the sidewalks and the tingle on the bottom of my feet. One sidewalk beside my house was a hill which had road on one side and grass on the other. It was steep. It wasn’t for the fainthearted.
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March 3, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Hi Kat,
Today the sky is clear blue and the high temperature is a warm 82°. My daughter is spending the weekend with us and I am at one of the neighborhood parks while she swings on the swing set.
I think every kid had those roller skates that went over your shoes. We would make those plastic woven lanyards in day camp to clip the key and hang it around our necks.
Sadly, the sound of roller skates on the concrete sidewalk doesn’t exist anymore. Today’s kids stay indoors and play video games instead of going out front and playing. Every kid has an iPhone these days instead of skates.
March 3, 2024 at 8:29 pm
Hi Bob,
We stayed damp and cloudy and in the mid forties all day.
I also made lanyards at the park from gimp. One Christmas my mother found a kit to make a single lanyard and put it into my pocket. She thought I’d enjoy the stepback in time. I found I remember how to do both configurations, diamond and square.
On my street the sound is of the basketball hitting the street. Two of the kids down the street are out often at the hoop most afternoons, even this winter.