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Snow and Tell
If only those blasted chairs at the ski resort didn’t move so darn fast and didn’t go up so darn high… if only they made skis that were bendable… if only ski boots were made for walkin’… if only mountains weren’t so steep… if only ice didn’t stick to the underbelly of a Golden Retriever… if only the average mom could carry 14 skis, 36 poles and 17 peanut butter sandwiches all at the same time, if only snow fell in a tropical setting… If only all that stuff was possible, then our family may end up being good skiers.
It’s not that we’re bad at skiing. It’s just that we are bad at everything that leads up to the actual act of skiing.
My first mistake was to go skiing. Other than that, I made some good decisions while we were skiing over winter break. Probably the best decision I made was not to jump off the chairlift to rescue my 9-year-old right after he fell off the chair. It was a tough call: I felt him sliding right off, looked down and saw the puffy white powder below and watched helplessly as my little dear heart tumbled down through the winter sky into a poofy pool of whiteness Oooops.
A mother’s worst nightmare. But I could tell he landed in a soft area…I could feel the chair lift rising faster and faster, higher and higher. My instinct was to jump off after him, but in a flash I made the decision to stay seated since his landing was safe and mine would not have been. The chair lift was going so fast and climbing so high so suddenly that the time differential between his landing and what would have been my landing, would have resulted in a bad scene for me. Plus, the chair lift operator saw my son’s fall and was running to his rescue. Talk about scary. This is only part of the story… Stay tuned to my Country Life column in Inside Arden for the full story. … And yes, you might even find out the best way to remove icy snowballs stuck to your dog’s fur.