Snow Banks

I don’t think it is just that things seemed bigger when we were children. I am very sure that we got more snow in those years. By mid winter the snow ploughs on the highways would have created such large banks that they would have to use “wings” in order to push back the tops of the banks so that there was room to push more snow from the next storm. The ledge created by the wings created wonderful new highways for children to walk on. Being maybe 30 inches above ground level they were often difficult to reach – but what an adventure. We were walking on top of the world on paths never before trod by man! Top that Star Trek! The illusion was that we were higher than the telephone wires – and we were – mind you the wires were on the top of fairly tall posts but they were down in the ditch - so we could see over them.These new paths were wonders but they were hard gained wonders. They would last only until the next interruption along the highway – a creek or a driveway where we would have to slide down to ground level walk, a few yards, then fight our way back up to the heights.