Outdoor Rinks Preferred

I love an ice skate escape on a moonlit night

Skating tightly hand in hand with my husband

  

I love spring winter fall but Old Man Winter best

Freedom to walk on frozen water only cold brings

Walking across the iced-up lake instead of around it

I love saving all fall for a new pair of ice skates

Skating on vintage skates with wooden runners

I love shovels pushing snow off winter's lake

I love summer heat in our gigantic family thermos

Hearing grinding my skates being sharpened

I love homemade mittens for warm fashion

You won't skate long without long underwear on.

I love my kids in matching yellow puffy parkas

Pretending we're all in the rigid nutcracker march

I love everyone I know gathering at the ice rink

Chilling, Spilling, Swirling, Twirling, Curling

I love Warming House like a north woods cabin

Reminds me of a swimming pool locker room

I love stoneware mugs keeping hot chocolate hot

I love bonfires on the shore at night with no other lights on

by Cheryl Moeller