An icestorm really did occur here in 1996. Our children even built an igloo with the ice chunks we eventually cut from our driveway, The sledding was fierce during this event when school was cancelled for a couple of weeks.
House Atop the Hill
Our house sits at the top of a hill,
We raised our children and live there still,
The driveway is steep and not very long,
And one misstep could go terribly wrong,
It presented a problem when our children were small,
If they rode a bike down it, they surely would fall,
Neighborhood daredevils tried scooters and skates,
I advised them to stay off for fear of their fates,
But, oh, when it snowed, we were the most popular place,
For the children to ride sleds with smiles on their face,
As our children grew and began to drive cars,
Our driveway was a challenge to back down, under the stars,
We moved our mailbox out of the way,
‘Cause we knew that they would crash into it someday,
Once an ice storm froze everything with a coating of ice,
The cul-de-sac was an ice rink which worked out really nice,
But to get up our driveway, we needed a rope,
Slip sliding on the treacherous slope,
Literally a rope was tied at the top,
Once we started down, we really could not stop!
Hand over hand, when going up, the rope was our tow,
Except for the mailbox there was no place to go!
School was out for days and days, then week after week,
Sometimes it is adventurous to live on a peak!
- Tammy Harvey written:
12/3/2016
Wow! 😃😃
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